Our panel talks about how the movie leaves space to grieve Chadwick Boseman and T’Challa while also providing a platform for a bunch of black women to take the lead in a geopolitical battle involving the charismatic Namor, the U.S. government, and… the French? We drift into the shipping...
Ferris cutting flowers in her garden. I wished her a pleasant day; she called back: “Oh, I am so glad to see you,” and came to the fence with a huge bunch of sweetpeas. “I’d like you to give this to your mother.” I thanked her and said that my mother would be enchante...
Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.Though they weren’t friends...
English translations of his work, however, remain at a trickle - VIZ re-issued his epochal The Drifting Classroom in 2019 and 2020, after many years of silence, and now brings the first of four volumes for Umezz's 1969-70 shōnen manga story sequence Orochi, which they previously tried t...
. The description of the coming of spring works as a metaphor for the changes brought to a staid musical scene by this bunch of musical bomb-throwers. It also reflects the reality of a country that was still rebuilding itself – and its reputation – after having been left in ruins at ...
I wished her a pleasant day; she called back: “Oh, I am so glad to see you,” and came to the fence with a huge bunch of sweetpeas. “I’d like you to give this to your mother.” I thanked her and said that my mother would be enchanted with the lovely bouquet. Then Mrs....
Something Wild(1986): A PSA for middle-aged guys on not getting mixed up with Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Not quite like any other movie I've seen, which is its own kind of recommendation: until the last bit, I really had no idea what was going to happen next. This movie also effectiv...
rounded snout, large pectoral fins, and rows of elevated ridges on its spine and flanks. Though there are still captive fish in breeding programs, authorities, despite many efforts, have failed to successfully reintroduce the fish to the river system, and now it considered extinct in the wild....
- Notable works: "Working Girl," "Something Wild," "Body Double," "Lolita" Griffith has been acting on the big screen ever since she was a teenager, cast as an extra in 1969's "Smith!" and 1973's "The Harrad Experiment." By no means did these early opportunities represent the pinna...
Time for another Ted talk.Commenter Tedasked me a bunch of interesting questions, including this: How you have thought about death and how you wish you thought about death. This is going to be a long and dreary post, mostly focusing on my “outside view”, which features a rather apathet...