Watchmen Recap: “She Was Killed By Space Junk”
An old character from the comics arrives reinvented, as we see the other half of the story thus far. Up to this point, Watchmen has been working hard to establish itself as a story existing within the periphery of the comics’ usual signposts. While we get the occasional glimpse of Dr. Manhattan, and this week ... Watchmen Recap: “She Was Killed By Space Junk”
Watchmen Premiere Recap: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
Damon Lindelof stuns with a tight, incisive continuation of the impossible-to-film comic book. The prospect of making a Watchmen TV series, even on HBO, is a dicey one, to say the least. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal deconstruction of the superhero genre was long thought impossible to film, and (depending on who you ask) ... Watchmen Premiere Recap: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: The Coen Brothers Spin Six Tales of Old West Tragicomedy
The Coen brothers return to the Old West for a darkly comic anthology of six stories of doomed men and women out on the frontier. This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood Watching a Western movie means feeling a strange surge of patriotism, of pride and awe for the American men and women who made ... The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: The Coen Brothers Spin Six Tales of Old West Tragicomedy