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Written and Illustrated by Ariela Kristantina With Sarah Stern and Bernardo Brice Published by Dark Horse Comics It is really hard to do...
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Written and Illustrated by Basil Wolverton Introduction by Monte Wolverton Published by Fantagraphics Books Monte Wolverton’s introduction to the new Fantagraphics collection of...
Moneyball may be the strangest baseball movie ever made, and not just because of how little time it devotes to actual baseball games. It...
Written by Herik Hanna Art by Charlie Adlard Published by Image Comics When I originally got this book in hand, I was truly...
Written and Illustrated by Ariela Kristantina With Sarah Stern and Bernardo Brice Published by Dark Horse Comics It is really hard to do...
The recent movie Mercy comes across like a Twilight Zone episode or, more precisely, a Black Mirror episode. Episodes in the Black Mirror...
When we consider the post Vietnam era films, this one is often left out. It was released in 1983, 8 short years after...
Not Without Hope is a film I’ve of two minds about: on the one hand, it’s a harrowing survival story, made all the more...
Detailing the execution of “Operation Market Garden”, Richard Attenborough’s 1977 war epic A Bridge Too Far sought to depict the significantly overreaching attempt...
Written by Paula Sevenbergen Art by Claudia Balboni and Fabi Marques Published by Mad Cave Studios As a guy growing up in the...
From the moment Send Help opens it’s clear which Sam Raimi we’re getting. The opening sequences of Rachel McAdams navigating American corpo-hell as a...
Written by Mathieu Bablet Art by Guillaume Singelin Published by Magnetic Press There is nothing quite like a good Kaiju story. There is...
Written by Nicolas Pothier Art by Johan Pilet Published by Fantagraphics Books I believe I’ve said it before in at least one of...
“I have a new family now… and I get to choose who’s in it!” Screenwriting guru Syd Field once said that all drama...
Written by Ray Morton Published by Bloomsbury Academic I first discovered the Marx Brothers in 1971 when their worst movie, RKO’s Room...
There’s a moment near the end of Cobra Kai where Johnny Lawrence — former bully, longtime screw-up, and somehow the emotional center of the...
My creative writing professor once told me that if you want to know where your story problems are, just pay attention to every time...
Written and Illustrated by Marcello Quintanilha Published by Fantagraphics I had, to my internal ignorance, never heard of creator Marcello Quintanilha up until...
Marking the English-language debut of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, Mimic sees Dr. Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) enlist entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino)...
The title of Raising Hitler is exactly as long as the pitch. Everything you need to know—maybe everything you want to know—is right...
After a tumultuous pre-production saw a revolving door of directors coming and going and Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega exit the franchise after...
Written by Joel Meadows Art by Andy Bennett Published by Mad Cave Comics There certainly are a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories out...
Opening with a swirling montage of newspaper headlines detailing the trial of Roman Strauss (Kenneth Branagh) who is awaiting his execution after being...
Written and Illustrated by Milo Manara Translated by Kim Thompson Published by Fantagraphics I had totally forgotten that I had read the first...
There’s a certain kind of performance that only works if the actor goes all in—no winking, no backup plan if the joke falls...
On a dark and stormy evening, a young woman (Zazie Beetz) knocks on the door of an opulent hotel. Allegedly, she is there...
Written by Jim Amash, and Eric Nolen-Weathington Introduction by Alan Davis Published by TwoMorrows The late Jim Aparo was never a flashy artist...
We never see Ray Charles freak out in front of the fans. This breaks a rule as obligatory to musician biopics as prom night...