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REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN HOSTILE TAKEOVER is a SHIELD File’s Worth of PlayStation’s Peter Parker Goodness.

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We're just a few short weeks away from Marvel's Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 putting Marvel back as a major player in the console gaming...

Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence

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Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut...

Review: ‘Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles’ offers heartbreaking tenderness within the satire

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If you had told me as recently as a year ago that I would be in love with a comic about Snagglepuss not due...

Review: Fear of a white planet in ‘The Danes’

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In The Danes, Belgian cartoonist Clarke’s suspense-thriller with science fiction tones, takes an accepted apocalyptic trope, a devastating pandemic, and turns it upside down....

Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’

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I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...

Review: The gorgeous ‘A Sea of Love’ is both epic and intimate

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Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad...

Review: Catherine Meurisse offers raw honesty about the Charlie Hebdo massacre

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So dire has the world situation been, even on the smallest levels, that the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff seems like it happened...

Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...

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Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy...

Review: Julian Hanshaw’s ‘Cloud Hotel’ keeps things mysterious

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In his previous graphic novel Tim Ginger, Julian Hanshaw touched up on UFOs in context of their place in popular conspiracy culture, mysterious but...

Review: Aaron Costain’s ‘Entropy’ suggests there might be too much to think about

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Aaron Costain’s Entropy is the type of book that begs you to never give up on it. It’s built into the story itself, which...

Review: Gipi searches for humanity at the end of the world

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  In Gipi’s post-apocalyptic drama Land of the Sons, there’s a moment when a father laments whether he should reveal to his sons that dogs...

Review: Weegee biography captures the big picture

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Let it be said upfront that in this more enlightened time, legendary photograph Weegee is not the kind of person that is given a...

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