Word: escapists
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...acquires an absurd-looking gun that completely atomizes anything he points it at. Finding his gun begins Andy's maturation, forcing him to make life or death decisions. In the cloudy world of Clowes, though, such choices are wholly of Andy's own making and highly debatable. Transcending the escapist fodder of its iconography, "The Death Ray" becomes a coming of age parable as well as hilariously cynical meditation on the soul...
...ROBOT Robots try to restrict freedom to protect humanity in this futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Audiences can watch it as an escapist Will Smith summer flick--or an allegory about the USA Patriot...
...Jury is part of Fox's strategy to forgo the summer-rerun season. The network launches six new shows this month, even though the summer has been friendlier to escapist confections like The O.C. and, especially, reality series. Then again, consider how many great reality-show moments--tribal councils, boardrooms--are just people sitting around talking. As on many reality shows, The Jury ends in a dramatic "reveal": a flashback, after the verdict, to the crime (or noncrime), which lets the audience see whether the jury got it right. It makes for provocative, thoughtful endings, the kind that could just...
Good or bad, however, TV can always be counted on to provide an a worldview outside Harvard or a little escapist fun, each of which, even my parents would agree, is worth at least a bit of our time...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story...