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...reputation as a true genius.Shapiro, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, is best known for a highly-acclaimed 1996 study, “Shakespeare and the Jews.” In that book, he explores the resonance between Shakespeare’s portrayal of Jewish characters??most famously Shylock—and English attitudes toward Jews in the 16th and 17th century. Just as the anti-Semitism of the era is reflected in Shylock’s character, the tumult of 1599 can be seen in Shakespeare’s works from that year. Political...
Ware’s spare artistic style, on the other hand, echoes the newspaper’s Sunday funnies. The simplicity of boldly outlined and brightly inked drawings emphasizes the characters?? messy lives...
...underground caves, which set the scene for many of the battles, are reminiscent of the tunnels beneath Hogwarts, Potter’s boarding school. But though Taylor rolls out a host of fantastic and terrifying enemies, his inability to ground the reader with any sense of who the main characters??Thomas, Kate, and Raphah—were before they set out to save the world leaves us wondering, like Kate, “Why did we get involved in all of this...
Well, for starters, the movie never tries to shove a lesson down your throat, and is driven not by characters?? quest to attain a moral high ground, but simply works as a nicely warped whodunit. Cinephiles will appreciate the homages to classic horror flicks sprinkled throughout the script. And if for no other reason, keep in mind that as hand-drawn animation quickly disappearing from screens, Wallace and Gromit may be the final vestiges of a manifestly man-made medium all too quickly succumbing to machinery...
...Chief Justice to the Supreme Court promised to be an entertaining piece of political theater. Unfortunately, the lead is not performing. Not only are many questions going unanswered, but Roberts’ appropriate silence on his decisions for future cases is making the side characters??the senators—look...