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Detroit Metal City: No Music, No Dream
We live in a time of film adaptations of comic books massive and tiny, from Iron Man and The Dark Knight to Wanted and The Surrogates. But I don’t need to see any more. I have seen Detroit Metal City...
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Marvel’s Kings of the Night Time World
In 1977, the most powerful band on earth was KISS with their pyrotechnics, monster boots and the largest army a band had ever fielded, the KISS Army, fully prepared to rock and roll all nite, party...
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The Lonely Man
Hit play. I used to be so impatient watching The Incredible Hulk. I curled up coloring, waiting for David Banner to transform and roar and smash through brick walls. But watching that show only for...
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The Love Song of the Black Lagoon
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By gillmen wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. –sorta T.S. Eliot Do you hear that? Off in the distance? A song too...
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Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It’s nice to hear all the old songs, isn’t it?”–the Devil, The Black Rider I was surprised to hear the old songs in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910...
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Summer Fun Time Reading!
It’s summertime and all the happenin’ sites have advice about bikinis, manscaping, quick cool meals and reading lists. I have no idea what to tell you about beachwear, other than you do look cute in...
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Disconnected Viewing
I don’t have cable right now so I’m rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I’d like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them–something like when James revisited...
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Maurice Sendak and the Strange Wild Things of My Childhood
“The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood, the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don’t see.” “I’m just clearing the decks for a simple death. You’re done with your...
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Elvis After Life
It’s funny. I knew today was the anniversary of Elvis’ death. I didn’t realize it was the 30th anniversary of Elvis’ long black limousine sliding into the beyond. A good hunk of his afterlife has been...
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“We were lightning across the whole world.”
Jason Molina died last weekend. He was the singer, songwriter, guitarist–power behind Songs: Ohio and Magnolia Electric Co. He’s also one of the few songwriters whose words I love in the same way that...
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Permission To Kill: Liner Notes
David Foster from Permission To Kill (and fellow Agent of the Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit) very kindly invited me to participate in his Liner Notes series. As he […]
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Johnny Hallyday vs. Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
POSTED: September 15, 2009 16:18 | By: Carol Borden Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai have another film at the festival this year. Vengeance, starring Johnny Hallyday and Anthony Wong Chau-Sang […]
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The Return of Ken’ichi Matsuyama (and Some Asskickery)
POSTED: September 17, 2009 12:56 | By: Carol Borden Ken’ichi Matsuyama’s back at the festival starring in another live-action manga adaption. Last year, Matsuyama starred in one of my favorite […]
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The Secret Life of James Bond Scores
Todd Stadtman from Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill! has written a fantastic piece tracing the secret life of 007 composer John Barry’s music in soundtracks around the world. The recently […]
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The 1915 Moon University Fight Song (And General Discussion of Moon University)
“The 1915 Moon University Fight Song” From the Moon Ocean of Storms To the Sea of Tranquility The Fightin’ Moon Spiders Boing with Impunity! The Spiders are undefeated. The Moon […]
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Frozen: Jane Austen Meets The Snow Queen
My mom raised me with three things: Feminism; “You don’t have to like your sister, but you can’t hit her”; and a dislike of Disney. Writing them down now, I […]
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Fun! Charm! Thrilling Adventure!
The Thrilling Adventure Hour is a beacon in a grittily realistic, grimdark pop culture landscape, one guiding lost souls to fun, charm and adventure. And I’m glad to see The […]
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Drive-In Mob Capos Pick Their Top Ten Akira Ifukube Tracks!
Over at the Drive-In Mob website, Brian and I share some of our favorite tracks from Akira Ifukube’s scores. Ifukube most famously scored many, many Godzilla movies, including the first. […]
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TOKYO TRIBE: Four More Japanese Musicals
Sion Sono’s hip hop tribute to West Side Story screened last night and screens again tonight. If you’ve developed an appetite for Japanese musicals here’s five more from directors you […]
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GOODNIGHT, MOMMY: Faceless Films
Vanguard Bloggers Leslie and Sian covered the perils of recuperating in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and engendered a healthy fear of children in us all. But there’s […]
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