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Even at his sunniest peak, this dark satirist can’t resist undermining his own predictions. He may embrace the twists and turns of fashion, but at heart he thinks they’re meaningless...
...directors get to bypass the harder and, often, more imaginative steps of screen translation. But shortcutting is too often to the detriment of the films, not to mention unfair to their parent comics—the X-Men and Spiderman movies being among the rare exceptions. Hellboy, is another dark horse in this inked-up Hollywood universe, a steam-train of an adaptation that stays vividly faithful to the comic book engine underneath, even as it accommodates those whose only experience with a “graphic novel” film is Dangerous Liaisons...
...with a bad temper, a troubled relationship with a sultry firestarter (Selma Blair), and dark beginnings (some Nazis and Rasputin—stay with me here—invited him over from Hell through an inter-dimensional portal, before he was raised by the U.S. government), he makes Superman look like Al Gore. If that makes the tempestuous and down-to-earth Hellboy a more popular superhero version of our president, well, some may not argue with that. (Just as an FBI agent wonders if “we should go back and request a special permit, type...
...first munch Mark attended, he met no one his age, or even close to his age. “When you start out, you always wonder if this is right, because it’s dark, forbidden and thus kind of a taboo,” he says...
...found in McGann a perfect celluloid soul mate to explore these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly...