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In spite of Mondovino’s esoteric and reputedly snobbish subject matter, even an audience who can’t tell Chianti from Kool-Aid can follow this portrait of an ancient, often bizarre international subculture. Like its distant cousin in fiction, Oscar contender Sideways, the film holds up...
In combining personal narrative and a backdrop of political tension, Kaabour’s film could be seen as a public service announcement against intolerance as well as a slice of life cinematographic exploration of character. While Osama El-Demerdash, eager and willing to leave Canada, visibly shakes with frustration...
Here’s the premise: after the end of Chabon’s novel’s plot, Kavalier and Clay drop the Escapist project and leave the comic in the hands of other writers. The creation bounces around from firm to firm—but each company that...
At one point during the 1960s, an Afro cream producer acquires the rights to the character and begins to produce a black Escapist, although the gig doesn’t fly.
Auslander’s 14 brief sketches exhibit flashes of brilliance but also leave his readers hungering for more. With none of his stories running longer than 23 pages, Auslander has yet to prove that he is capable of offering his readers a fully-developed, multi-dimensional character.