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...plot, the colors in the film—from the costumes to the furniture—are so pungent and vibrant, the ironic title rings true. In fact, the film is so highly stylized that one would half expect a movie completely devoid of any meaning. But once the tale ends, it stays with you, whether you liked it or not. Bottom Line: It’s sick, it’s twisted, and it’s one of the best films of the year...
...sometimes as a history, the play has always straddled these two genres. This new production attempts to add a third adjective to the description, creating a tragical-historicall thriller. Shakespeare’s original text, set in fifteenth-century England, has all the ingredients of a fast-paced modern tale: murder, conspiracy, politics, and plenty of intrigue. But it is, in the words of Zalisk, “a sprawling three-hour drama.” Amidst the action, there are elaborate evocations of period court scenes and detailed forays into medieval British political life. It’s half...
...Maybe it's a mistake to ask who Bettie was, or what her underground eminence signifies. As Buck Henry writes: "The oft-told Betty Page story is peculiar - a morality tale with no discernible moral, not much plot, and a leading character who is at least elusive...
...Charles Burns' teen-horror, graphic-novel series Black Hole. Then, Gaiman must deliver the first of six issues of The Eternals, a resurrected Marvel Comics creation from the '70s. Oh, and he also needs to finish a book of short stories, as well as The Graveyard Book, a tale of an orphan child being raised by dead people. In his spare time, he may swing by Los Angeles to see how Roger Zemeckis' animated version of Beowulf, for which Gaiman rewrote the oldest epic in the English language, is coming along. Isn't that too much to juggle? Gaiman...
...Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” provides Future Great American Novelists’ jealous bitterness some vindication. “Opal Mehta” is, as my friend Leon Neyfakh ’07 wrote in Fifteen Minutes last month, “a fairy tale, more or less,” and a lot of its details are as unconvincing and unfelt as pre-Pixar Disney...