Tag: 1970s

Ballerinas Watch Black Swan

The New York Times has a piece on dancers’ reaction to Black Swan. Meanwhile, Jonathan Romney interviews Darren Aronofsky and writes: “There’s much steamy weirdness that you don’t normally associate with ballet fictions: hallucinations, horror, lesbian clinches with doppelgängers.” Which is exactly what I associate with them. I’d […]

10 Comics I Liked in 2010

Sometimes it’s easy to forget why I like comics and 2010 was a particularly tough year, in comics and otherwise. But here are 10 that reminded me why I do like them. There’s a lot of crime, anthropomorphic animals, gorgeous art, silly fun, people dealing with things the […]

Twilight of the Geeks

Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it:  “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.”  It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008:  “Does it have to get boring before […]