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...just a band performing alternating with shots of them looking all pensive and anguished…in SPACE!” is not a significant improvement on the standard formula for sensitive rockers. Add in a poorly-CGI-ed extraterrestrial landscape, a barrage of stock footage of birds, and WWII bombers, and the result is nothing more than a confusing mess of slow-motion outer-space angst. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...banking firm in the city.” This, in turn, is code for, “I will work until I’m miserable and then develop a drug habit to fuel my unfulfilling social life.” It’s a bit like the WWII-era Enigma code machine, if you replace the Nazis with a bunch of d-bags. In other words, it’s finally Senior Spring, and chaches are flying out of the woodwork at record pace. Over spring break, an aggressive portion of the senior class moved en masse...
...Latin American decade. That year, 11 of 20 Latin America countries were governed by military regimes. The United States and Europe not only overlooked human right abuses, but they actively helped the regimes and often trained repressors. Long gone were the Atlantic System dreams from the ashes of WWII promising a world based on international law and respect. Fear of communism made everything valid. Thirty years ago, was the world really that different?Today, the Red Scare has been replaced by radical Islam and nuclear proliferation. Look at the news, and you’ll find that every large issue...
...will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give way to King's fascination with the country life as Walt, Skeezix and the Alley gang go for a trip to Yellowstone. Every day they pass through a real town, with its name...
...movie takes a serious downturn when World War II hits. Frears attempts to add gravity by using WWII themes, yet this only reveals how slight a comedy of manners the first part is. The director’s juxtaposition of actual stock footage of the war—including the bombing of London—against the theater’s musical numbers featuring naked girls highlights the falsity of the film’s recreation of the time...