Heard good things about Iron Man? You heard right, its an odd, but faith-affirming instance of a movie that lives up to the hype. I’m going to break this into two parts, the meat of the film, and the allusions to the Iron Man comics and cartoons (much of which is laying the groundwork for the eagerly […]

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Originally printed in New York Resident the week of March 29, 2004

“I remember having a giant grin,” Mike Mignola recalled of seeing the big screen debut of his decade-old comic book character, Hellboy, at a 1 a.m. screening in Austin. Mignola, a current Battery Park resident and on-and-off New Yorker for the past 20 years, […]

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If you live in an urban area, you’ve probably seen, or at least seen a line for, a little film called The Blair Witch Project. If you don’t live in an urban area, first off, you have my sympathies, second off, you’ll probably have a chance to see it soon.I’ll get to the film towards […]

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