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...second time in a year a hit movie has been made from a non-superhero comicbook. Topping box-office grosses this past weekend, "From Hell," starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, directed by the Hughes brothers follows the summer's indy-hit, "Ghost World." But unlike "Ghost World," in which the comicbook's creator, Dan Clowes, extensively participated in the movie, the authors of "From Hell," Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, had little to do with the film. The difference shows...
...comics audience, its superheroes reflected our moods in war and peace. The 1950s had its straight-arrow Superman; the 1960s, a campy Batman. After Vietnam, we saw comforting images of super-Americans (Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man and Woman); after the cold war, postmodern parodies (Space Ghost). Call it coincidence or prescience, but a new generation of prime-time superhero is arriving for a new decade and a new war. Smallville (the WB, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) and The Tick (Fox, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T., debuts Nov. 8) were created long before Sept. 11, but their likable, workaday heroes...
...British Society for Psychical Research reported Sunday that ever since the introduction of mobile phones, ghost sightings have been on the decline. Paranormal activity has steadily dropped off in the past 15 years...
...town would be dead. Every house, every office, every vehicle, the schools, the stores, the hospital--all empty. The instinctive rural resentment toward city folk, whose perceived wealth and influence can make country folk feel like sharecroppers or peasants, was swallowed up by that awful calculation. The ghost town is a familiar Western image--just drive up into the hills; they're everywhere--and suddenly it was possible to picture another one: ours...
After Hollywood's Summer of Duds, news that Philadelphia filmmaker M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN (The Sixth Sense; Unbreakable) is ready to start work on his next supernatural thriller is good news. But first--what did he think of that summer ghost movie that ripped off his Sixth Sense twister ending? "I was bothered by it," he admits. "But I guess I'm flattered. So many times I'll come out of a movie and think, 'I wish I had done that!'" His new movie, Signs, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-priest wrestling with his beliefs ("I like to cast slightly...