Word: comicality
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...Fiction (1994), Magnolia (1999) and this year's Crash are all movies that use multiple, seemingly unrelated storylines weaving across each other or culminating in one climactic event. Graphic novels have also started to explore this technique. Earlier this year Dan Clowes' impressive Ice Haven (a repackaging of his comic book Eightball #22) bounced among the denizens of a suburban town. The latest book to use this style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first graphic novel, Box Office Poison (2001), spent over 500 pages examining the lives...
Despite his low-key personality, Steven Pinker is a national figure, and his name has been used in comic strips and on websites (he says he’s a proud member of the “Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club For Scientists?...
...Shrek 2”s soundtrack’s success. Young children will probably enjoy this film, the very long riff on different terms for pee (such as “tinkle” and “piddle”) probably are feats of comic genius to them. But as a movie that us Peter Pan complexers can relate to? Eh, not so much. Luckily, for those of us who really enjoy cute little things, “Little,” along with the two other characters competing for the uber-adorable prize—a fish with...
Featuring a colorful cast of characters ranging from a perky and saucy black flight attendant to a feisty drag queen character, the darkly comic “The Colored Museum” manages to crawl under the skin of viewers. There is no escaping the implications of its message...
...dying father’s respect. Whatever one thinks of Cage’s style (he seems as polarizing a figure as the one he plays), he does a fine job of portraying the lonely everyman in search of existential meaning. Those who enjoyed Cage’s comic bumbling in “Raising Arizona” or his portrayal of depressive self absorption in “Adaptation” will find something to like here. As an archetype of a lonely middle aged man, Spritz has both his literary and cinematic forebears: Frank Bascombe...