You may have missed the news, but this is the 50th anniversary of a cheap, scrappy British science fiction series called Doctor Who. Like a fair number of folk my age, I first stumbled across Doctor Who one Saturday afternoon on PBS, back when PBS was able to […]
Chris Sims reviews DC’s Superman: A Celebration OF 5 Years. “It’s divided into different eras….But thematically? There’s not a lot of variety. They focus overwhelmingly on one idea of how they want you to see Superman, and the Superman they present is a depressed sad sack who never […]
At Newsweek, Gogo Lidz profiles Betty Page and Mark Mori’s documentary about Page.
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species […]
At The AV Club, Scott Kaufman discusses editing and its unsettling effects in Donnie Darko.
Actress Marcia Wallace has died. Marcia Wallace is probably best known for voicing Edna Krabappel in The Simpsons, playing receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show, as Maggie Hawley in That’s My Bush! and as Annie Wilkes on The Young And The Restless. Entertainment Weekly, The New […]