Posts Tagged ‘comic’
Agile Acting
JIMMY FOWLERFamous playwrights don’t offer succinct explanations of their plays very often. Of course, Steve Martin was famous as an absurdist comic star long before he tackled playwriting, so he didn’t have any kind of literar...
Ice Age
KRISTIAN LINThe image of Thornton Wilder as a folksy and homespun playwright is almost entirely down to the unceasing popularity of Our Town. Most people, however, forget that this fourth wall-breaking, non-realistically staged 1938 play r...
Rabbit Redux
JIMMY FOWLERWhat a strange play is Harvey, Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner. It’s as dated and syrupy sweet as a fruitcake, yet it also contains punchy comic repartee and an otherworldly charm that’s grown more pot...
Infinite Jest
Kristian LinIt’s high time that America discovered Steve Coogan. The 43-year-old needle-nosed native of Manchester, England, is hugely popular in the U.K. as the star of several TV shows and smart, funny postmodern comedy films (Tris...
Rushed Hours
The shoot-’em-up Wanted is all action, no talk.MATT GOODMAN
Adapted from a comic-book miniseries from 2003 and ’04, Wanted is Hollywood’s latest attempt to piggyback on the successes of other cultish comic adaptations that recently have built a following among testosterone-a...
Max Power
Steve Carell makes over a bumbling superspy for a new age in Get Smart.Kristian Lin
Back in the summer of 1984, Beverly Hills Cop and Ghostbusters ruled the box offices as big-ticket action thrillers headlined by comedians.
High Score
Scott Kurtz has done the seemingly impossible: achieve 10 successful years in the webcomic biz.Books
Few people make it in the world of online comics. Few people probably even know that online comics exist.
Hebrew Hammer
Adam Sandler plays an Israeli superhero, with good and really bad results.Kristian Lin
In Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg’s Munich: “Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed.
Good Time Charlie
Honey, the kid’s a shrink. This teen comedy turns complex issues into big laughs.Kristian Lin
Charlie Bartlett was supposed to come out last August. (In fact, that’s when I first saw the movie.)
Luck of the Draw?
A local collective of aspiring comic artists is on the wing.Art
In early 2006, local artist Paul Milligan and some other artistically inclined fanboys started an informal group, Stumblebum Studios, mainly to have a virtual place where they could kick around ideas.