The best movies of 2014 are an eclectic bunch, featuring among them a talking raccoon, a teenager stuck in purgatory, a quartet of finger-snapping singers, talking toys, mysterious murders, alien invasions, and enough mutants and superheroes to fill a galaxy. One trait they share? They’re all worth watching again and again.
It’s been almost 12 years since a science fiction or fantasy film got any major love at Oscar time (and prior to that, it had been…uhm, basically never). Peter Jackson’s butt-busting adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s equally epic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went home with the Best Picture prize, and grabbed […]
Popular books are like candy to filmmakers. A good book with a good story and a built-in audience can sound like an easy translation to box office gold and glory. But as we’ve all seen (many, many times), it’s not nearly so easy. The conventional wisdom is that the book is always better than the […]
Archie’s back, a disease is making everyone pretty, the Large Hadron Collider is sending people through time, and Daniel Clowes is going on a psychedelic journey. Which is all to say that this month’s selection of graphic novels isn’t all about the superheroes. Unless you’re all about the superheroes, in which case there’s some pretty cool stuff […]