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Comics culture: MF Doom's Operation: Doomsday gets spiffy new release
MF Doom is one of the peripheral players of comic-dom -- a hip hop stylist who wears an iron mask, originally based on Doctor...
Firstish looks: Spider-Man in action; possible X-Men First Class
A few set photos floating around this afternoon are of interest for various reasons.
¶ A fan on the street snapped a shot of a...
Green Hornet news roundup
Despite reviews which ranged from pleasantly amused to fuming accusations of being one of the worst movies of all time, GREEN HORNET managed to lead at the box office with $40.5 million over the four-day holiday. That was doubtless inflated by the 3D conversion, so, sadly, studios will keep doing it and keep making movies less watchable.
New Spider-Man will have mechanical webshooters
Poor Emma Stone. As lovely and charming as she is, she did not know that by answering some nerdy question on the red carpet she was stepping into a hotbed of fannish research. While everyone went all Zapruder inspecting the bulges on Andrew Garfield's wrists in the recently released look at him in Spider-garb, she innocently answered the burning question:
Mixed media: Lego Angry Birds
Despite the fact that popular apps on iPhones can read our private data and sell them to the highest bidder, we just can't get enough of such time-voids as Angry Birds. And now we can look upon them in Lego form and feel even more sated.
Paul Duffield on motion comics
FREAKANGELS artist Paul Duffield, who has a background in animation, shares some informed thoughts on motion comics proving that there is more you can say about the hybrid form than "Yuck." However, there is a conceptual problem, he says.
Spider-Man musical delayed again
It has become legend.
The reason this time? Well as Steven Bunche and many others have pointed out, the musical still lacks an ending. Git 'er done! Producers announced the show will be delayed until March 15 (pushed back from February 7) and several performances have been canceled between now and then to allow more time to fine-tine the technical aspects of the show -- which is the most complex ever brought to Broadway -- and to work on the ending, and allow Bono and The Edge to work on the unpopular score.
Firstish look: Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man UPDATE
He's done launching social networks, and has moved on to climbing walls. The first photo of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man has been released; he...
Newish look: Chris Evans as Captain America
This grainy scan from tomorrow's EW is running around the internet. We smell something, and it smells like THE ROCKETEER.
GREEN HORNET is a lot of fun
We caught a screening of GREEN HORNET last night, and despite all the dire forebodings of a superhero movie starring Seth Rogen , it was charming, very funny and worthy of repeated viewings.
As I tweeted last night, the mix of Rogen, director Michel Gondry and scripters Rogen and Evan Goldberg (SUPERBAD) should have aroused no worry whatsoever as long as they were allowed to play to their considerable strengths -- which mostly involve comedy. And in fact GREEN HORNET is an action comedy -- quite goofy in spots, visually inventive in others but always putting its characters first. It has the deliberately awkward mise en scene of all Gondry films, but way more propulsive action.
The Year in (P)Review: 2011
So, as happens frequently in America, we treat History like a Cassandra, reading and studying, but choosing not to believe or remember the lessons it teaches us. I know Cassandra's fate, and thus the dangers of saying "I told you so". So instead, I'll quote Gene Wilder in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory":
Oh, you should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about.
So, what can we expect in 2011?












