For the past few years I’ve watched all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts, officially because they’re timely and important films to watch. Unofficially it’s because they’re short, and I can knock out a whole category in an evening. This year, though, it might’ve been better to space them out: they’re well-made, intelligent, and often beautiful, but
I’m still trying to stay on top of my comic reviews, so I’m doubling up again this week, read on for reviews of Monstress #20 and Middlewest #4.
In our continuing series on the Oscar-nominated movies, reviewer narrator26 has a look at Mary Poppins Returns. Mary Poppins is not necessarily a film that I hold dear. The music is wonderful and Julie Andrews is a treasure, but I’ve always found it to be overly scattered and episodic in nature. For this reason, I was a
Next up in our series on the Oscar-nominated films, here’s a review of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” from WMK Movie Reviews. There’s almost nothing better than a director who can create something so sophisticated out of a premise so simple, and Marielle Heller does the job so well in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Speaking as a twin, people sure loved to shout “WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE” in my general direction when I was growing up. In spite of that, Kathryn and I always liked the Wonder Twins: Super Friends was a pretty silly show (we knew that even in the 80s) but Jayna and Zan were cool, and
“Be sure.” Every person in Eleanor West’s Home For Wayward Children has their own backstory of the fairytale world they stepped into, and their own reason for desperately wanting to go back. In Seanan McGuire’s latest novella in her Wayward
These wizards and their schemes do not account for the likes of us. Or maybe they do. That would make it worse. Keep reading for a review of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ Die #3.
I’ll admit it, I didn’t think I was going to read this one. The art looked very spiffy but the story seemed like a James Bond/Sin City/Old Man Logan-style spy adventure, and while I like all those things, I didn’t need a new one. But Dark Horse very nicely sent a review copy of the
Next up in reviews of Oscar-nominated films, guest writer Jordan Lynn Maitlen has a look at Netflix and the Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. “Pan-shot!” ~The Banker The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a series of 6 western stories wrapped into a full length movie directed by the Coen Brothers, who did The