MU Publications, later known as Archie Comics, introduced the first specifically patriotic superhero: the Shield, inPep Comics#1 (January 1940), a red-white-and-blue-garbed crime fighter who used his superpowers, obtained from a secret formula, to protect American soil from enemy saboteurs and...
My last film of the day was an unsettling and transfixing period piece.THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE, dir Magnus von Horn (Denmark, Poland, Sweden) “In Magnus von Horn’s stylish and audacious blend of true-crime drama and expressionist nightmare, a young seamstress trying to survive in post-...
Betty is surprised to find the brunette woman in her absent aunt’s upscale apartment. The woman explains that she was in a car accident and hasamnesia. All she has is a purse containing a blue key and a wad of cash. Spying a poster ofRita Hayworth, she tells Betty to call her Rita...
Why it’s great for toddlers: The songs are engaging, and toddlers will want to dance and sing along. With the same format as the television show, young viewers can follow the paw print clues right along with Blue and Josh, involving toddlers in the journey. Parents will also enjoy the ...
One of four films directed by the late Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millenium Actress), it reminded me how we used to have transexual characters in movies and it was okay. All of our characters are flawed and all of them exaggerate their own sins in their minds. A very human ...
Unfortunately, the humans haven't had much luck on that front, so they head back to our little blue dot hoping that enough time has passed that maybe the big lizard's had his fill. One guess as to the answer to that! They find a world radically altered thanks to the big G's radio...
(including the floor and the ceiling), staring back at you. The walls are steel but lit from within, a monochromatic neon glow of green or red or blue. And you have no memory of how you got there. You pick a hatch, open it up and go through it… And it's another room, exactly...
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He’s reconciled the series’ pop thrills with the heaviness of its political subtext more skillfully than anyone since the rubber-suit days by melding the two into an ideological spectacle to rival Sergei Eisenstein’s, both in its foregrounded populist leanings as well its rousing, cathartic ...