Oliver Davis reviews East of West #11… “THE NATION, XIAOLIAN…The Bride of Death makes her first moves in the great game of Nations. The Chosen begin to splinter.” Issue 11 opens on Xiaolian, ruler of the Mao region, preparing to leave for The Wall. There, she will confront her fellow Heads of States on the […]
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Comic Book Review – East of West #10
Oliver Davis reviews East of West #10… “Death finally tracks down someone who knows where his son has been hidden, right as the Ranger finds that exact same man. Someone shoots, someone gets shot, and someone dies.“ East of West #10’s synopsis above hints at a frustrating trait of the series so far: “Death finally […]
DVD Review – Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed, 2012 Directed by Colin Trevorrow.Starring Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass and Jake Johnson. SYNOPSIS: A journalist and his two interns investigate a ‘time travel partner wanted’ advert that appears in a newspaper. WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back. […]
Special Features – R.I.P. P.S.H.
Oliver Davis on the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman… Philip Seymour Hoffman (or ‘PSH’ as he was lovingly called in my house) was never a leading man in the conventional sense. A man of untucked shirts, his face was rough and slightly weathered, his portly torso giving him the appearance of a New York slob. […]
Comic Book Review – East of West #9
Oliver Davis reviews East of West #9… Another issue in Jonathan Hickman’s sprawling East of West, another new character to confuse things. With each installment, the series confounds its already-epic narrative with a new, superfluous thread. It’s like the frustrating latter books of George R. R. Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ saga. Issue […]
Comic Book Review – Prophet #42
Oliver Davis reviews Prophet #42… After its terrific issue 41 (and, to be honest, every installment prior to that), Prophet #42 acts as a filler episode, taking a break from the series’ climactic battle to tell a story from Diehard’s millennia-spanning life. The comic’s usual writer and artist – Brandon Graham and Giannis Milonogiannis, respectively […]
Buster Keaton Month – The Electric House and The Navigator
Oliver Davis continues our Buster Keaton month with reviews of The Electric House and The Navigator… The Electric House, 1922. Silent comedies like these often have such overly complex set-ups. For The Electric House, a two-reeler (about 20 minutes long), Buster Keaton has his ‘Botany’ degree mixed up with an electrical engineer’s (Steve Murphy) at […]
Buster Keaton Month – Playtime (1967)
Playtime, 1967. Directed by Jacques Tati.Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek and Rita Maiden. SYNOPSIS: Monsieur Hulot battles the modern architecture and technology of Paris, creating pockets of benign chaos through to the early morning. Playtime opens on an airport lounge for what feels like ages. People are dwarfed in the longshot, going about their business. […]
