For me this movie was the equivalent of the Futureheads cover of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.” Of course it’s not as good as the original, without which it doesn’t mean nearly as much, but despite its brashness and eagerness, it’s still extremely enjoyable, and depending on who you are and what you expect it to . . . → Read More: watching the watchmen
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Maybe I’m just feeling better, but just to prove I’m not a film snob: Blood and Iron is MUCH better than Sword of Storms. The script’s both funnier and eerier, the compositions are far more interesting, the fights are less tedious, and the whole thing feels a lot more like a Hellboy comic than the live-action . . . → Read More: hellboy animated: blood and iron I never saw Ang Lee’s Hulk when it came out, but I caught about an hour of it on TV while I was in the gym the other day. It looked pretty much like I expected: angsty, heavy, tedious, and fake. “Angsty” and “heavy” I can understand. If you really stop and think about the . . . → Read More: pre-hulk Disappointing. The art is impressionistic, indistinct, rendered in gray, black, and red…strong visual choices, but often confusing to the point where it’s difficult to tell what’s just happened and to whom. The story has a clever premise — since the town of Barrow, Alaska is so far north that it annually experiences a month without . . . → Read More: 30 days of night (graphic novel) Achewood is one of my favorite comic strips ever. I don’t think about Peanuts often, perhaps because it was such a basic part of my childhood, but yeah, if I made a top ten list, which I can’t bring myself to do anymore after High Fidelity made such lists seem the province of tools, they’d . . . → Read More: achewood and peanuts |
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