Word: protectorate
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Cartoonist Judd Winick met his future wife Pam Ling on season three of The Real World. Now he's used her Chinese-American culture as the springboard for the story of a sarcastic 11-year-old who is the Te Xuan Ze, the protector of humanity from supernatural villains. It's a little derivative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--O.K., a lot--but Juniper has its own clever twists; for instance, only she can see her monster enemies. Let it never be said nothing good came out of reality...
...knew her. Fossey was often at odds with the local population, especially poachers, who sell the heads, hands and feet of mountain gorillas as curios and ashtrays. The rare primates, which have not been able to survive in captivity, now number only about 240. Fossey was a vigilant protector of her research subjects; in 1980 she reportedly abducted the child of a local woman suspected of stealing a baby gorilla, then offered to exchange hostages. Fossey's violent death bears a sad resemblance to that of another naturalist, Joy Adamson, author of the 1960 best seller Born Free...
...this mystery magician Sophie's protector or a predator? No suspense there. But while the story adheres to fairy-tale contours, it constantly surprises with the richness of imaginative detail. The film begins in the soot and bustle of an old European city, with a design scheme both grim and dapper: even the evil blobs who chase Howl wear straw hats. The castle, which treads back roads on four Seussian legs, is a spectacular jumble of ship parts, old wooden houses and gigantic barrels. Palaces and shimmering lakes, warplanes and fire sprites all come to life at the breath...
...life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different?" An older man, Desmond Cussen (Ian Holm), is Ruth's pal and protector, the one dour celibate in this tatty Sodom. Des is used to being used by Ruth; it is his way of feeling needed. He has the patience for her; David has the hots. Together, these qualities might make a decent lover. Opposed, they tear Ruth apart...
...third tale features the fantastic Clive Owen as Dwight, yet another mentally-addled hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film’s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...