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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Forever Evil #1 Review + More!!! (COMICS!)
“AETERNUS MALUM.” – Ultraman
Hello everyone! This is your comic book supervillain, Richard Purnell, here! It is friday, which means that it is time for a brand new episode of COMICS! This weeks episode features a wave of comic reviews! However, the biggest review this week is of DC Comics’s newest event story: Forever Evil! The first issue of the event has hit the shelves, and I’m here to give you my two cents on the comic itself. Also, and I think you Director’s Cut fans might like this, I review a brand new Star Wars comic that gives us a look at what the original Star Wars could have been like. Also, I review a bunch of new hot books from DC’s villain’s month! So, as usual, to see all of this…just click on the picture above! Also, if you want to see more, subscribe to Channel23hahaha on YouTube for more!
Capsule Review: Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1998)
New media artist Johan Grimonprez takes the silhouette of airplanes and transforms it to a symbol of revolution, protest, and identity in this pre-9/11 documentary of the gradual increase of hijacking globally and its transformation from individual agents trying to redirect flights to bring attention to a cause to increasingly bloody and terrorist-driven attacks on the structures of the planes and the people in them. Documentary footage of plane hijacks from the 1960s to the 1990s is intercut with various commercial and avant-garde imagery and voice over selections of Don DeLillo’s postmodern alienation novels. Above all, Grimonprez points out the cameras that swarm to cover the hijacking or destruction of a plane and uses DeLillo’s passages to showcase how ‘a news of constant crisis replaces the need for a novel’ in modern life.
–DB
Capsule Review: Branded (2012)
Infamous Russian b-film with a winning concept about marketing brands being actual demons that feed off of the desires of human beings is often criticized for being overly long and basically tone-deaf, mostly because it seems like the writer/producer/director team of Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn just went with every idea they had, pacing, character, or believability be damned. Sadly once the brand demons start fighting over Moscow and the main character starts screaming about “Advertising was started by LENIN!” you get an inclination to the bizarre-ass adventure the movie could have been.
–DB