All posts tagged "comics"
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Funny Business
If ever you've been torn between stand-up or improvisational comedy, comic Jennie McNulty feels your pain. ''It's not a sketch show, not just stand-up --...
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Gold Rush
''Oh, goddammit, fuckhead ass!'' Judy Gold's phone won't stop making loud bleeping noises. And it's getting on her nerves. And the one thing you don't...
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Heroic Exploits
Maybe it was the tights, but something about superheroes fascinated me when I was a little boy. I certainly wasn't alone in this interest. My...
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Banal Bunch
Well... it's better than the first one. Faint praise, indeed, but it's really the best you can say for the second installment of the Fantastic...
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Web Head
The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...
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The Buff Stuff
Lots of hot, sweaty, buff, nearly-naked men. Do you need more convincing to run out and see 300? If so, consider this: It's a visually...
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Rabble Rousing
V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...
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Wondrous Woman
Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter. Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the...
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Fantastic Flop
The Fantastic Four ain't. Bet you saw that train coming a mile away. But this train wreck of a superhero movie is very much a...
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Hell Boy
Innocuous entertainment. That's how, if pressed, I would describe Constantine, another comic book-to-screen adaptation that is, at the very least, visually interesting for its two-hour...
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Super Hero
Let's just chime right in with the chorus, shall we? Spider-Man 2 is the greatest superhero movie ever made. It goes well past amazing --...
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Comic Sutra
In the sixties he was a mad scientist. In the eighties he was an evil businessman. Today he is the President of the United States....
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Life Lines
Photography by Todd Franson Three months ago, lying on a path alongside the George Washington Parkway with a broken arm, many thoughts were rushing through...
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Big Green Machine
The comic book is officially called The Incredible Hulk. The movie is called, simply, Hulk. A wise decision. Because to include the word incredible in...
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Xstacy
Bryan Singer's gone and done it again -- created an emotionally rousing, smart and sophisticated movie based on a comic book. And the amazing thing...
