The world feels like a brutal, unsentimental place after watching Aleksei German’s final film, not least when I had the following realisation: Hard to be a God’s ceaseless, grotesque phantasmagoria of cruelty makes German the only director who could possibly adapt Cormac McCarthy’s classic novel Blood Meridian. But now he’s […]
Day: 26 September 2015
4-Panel 27 – Beat Thanos With Zappy Dubstep
4-Panel returns to deliver your weekly dose of comics, manga and graphic novels. This week’s news includes supervillains quoting politicians, more cast members for the Doctor Strange movie, NHK’s behind-the-scenes manga documentary series featuring Naoki Uresawa, and all sorts of other stuff. Our featured comics and manga are Robocop Versus […]
Cinema Eclectica 37 – The Made-Up Words Club
This week don’t need a dictionary… because we ARE the dictionary. Off the Shelf is top-filled with the usual oddities – Samuel Fuller’s noir Pick-Up on South Street, Woody Allen’s maligned Curse of the Jade Scorpion, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt to salvage his career (a.k.a. The Visit), and Second […]