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Tag Archives: noir
Now Fear This: Angel Heart
Nowadays, all it takes for a film to be controversial is for the leads to have an insufficient amount of penises. But back before the internet became an outlet for the collective ids of every man who has ever owned … Continue reading
Posted in Projected Pixels and Emulsion
Tagged Angel Heart, horror, Lisa Bonet, Mickey Rourke, noir, Now Fear This, occult, Robert De Niro
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Now Fear This: Changeling
I can’t trace the roots of all my phobias. There are too many of them. I’d need to get more proficient with Excel for one thing. This week’s entry, 2008’s Changeling (not to be confused for previous entry The Changeling), … Continue reading
Liner Notes: City of Devils
I do a lot of conventions, and I learned one thing very quickly. When someone stops by my booth, points at the rack of books, and asks what they’re about, it pays to have what’s called an elevator pitch to … Continue reading
Posted in Level Up, Moment of Excellence
Tagged Candlemark and Gleam, City of Devils, creature feature, Liner notes, monsters, noir
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Watch This: Banshee
In the Arrested Development episode “Best Man for the GOB,” the Bluth family throws a fake bachelor party for eldest son GOB as cover to fake a narcoleptic stripper’s death. It’s a long story. Relatively sane brother Michael catches GOB … Continue reading
Posted in Projected Pixels and Emulsion
Tagged Alan Ball, Banshee, Cinemax, noir, unlimited juice
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Liner Notes: Nerve Zero
During my first couple years of attending various comic conventions, I never went anywhere without my sketchbook. It doesn’t have a single drawing by me between its frayed black covers, but there’s a whole page of Groo characters by Sergio … Continue reading
Posted in Moment of Excellence, Puffery
Tagged Liner notes, Nerve Zero, noir, science fiction, zero gravity
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