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...Sting, where is thy sting? For unfathomable reasons, the rock star has been cast as Dr. Frankenstein in The Bride. This is less a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein, the most joyously self-satirizing horror movie ever made, than a radical revision of it. In this version, the good doctor is no longer obsessed with challenging God for the secrets of the universe. He is now moodily in love with the mate (Jennifer Beals) he created for his original monster, who has run off with the circus. Since neither Sting nor Beals seems capable of full human animation...
...couldn't make a more illegal album," says Burton. "When it spread beyond being a little art project, of course EMI came after me." It wasn't just the cease-and-desist business that bothered him. He was also a little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named it the best album of 2004). "Mixing two records takes discipline and creativity, but it's not talent," he says. "It's just output." When the hype cooled, Burton feared that his little gag might pigeonhole him as a novelty act. "I don't want...
Also, what appears to be antinuclear anger or trepidation in the country may simply be part of the perpetual up and-down attitude toward technology in general. Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove are monsters to the Luddite sensibility quite apart from thoughts of a nuclear winter. It may be that after Hiroshima, Americans were no longer so keen on their seemingly infinite capacity to make things work, that the technological success of Hiroshima took the heart out of American can-do self-esteem. (At Los Alamos, a code name for the Bomb was the "gadget.") On this basis, one might work...
Perhaps screenwriters Frank Cappello, Kevin Brodbin, and Mark Bomback inserted the line to smooth over some of the ugly stitches in this Frankenstein of a religious piece. But like paranormal John Constantine himself, audiences can’t help but see the ugly truth beneath the skin. Some plot points are never adequately explained: how did Constantine return from hell the first time? When and how did Satan have a son? Characters’ motivations are equally murky—Gabriel, for example, comes off as part saint, part sadist, and we’re left guessing whether the archangel...
...SEVEN SOLDIERS Written by Grant Morrison; illustrations by various The SEVEN SOLDIERS saga comprises seven 4-issue miniseries and two bookend Specials - all which may be read independently but combine to tell a colossal 30-part tale, starring Klarion, Mister Miracle, Frankenstein, Zatanna, The Guardian, Bulleteer and the Shining Knight. (February...