The loneliest miser: another look at Christmas Carol
Last year Greg Hatcher discussed why he loves A Christmas Carol despite a general distaste for Christmas because “someone finally convinces a rich asshole to stop being a jerk to …
Author: frasersherman
Christmas as a black hole
Over the years Christmas has become the black hole of movies, drawing them to the season by the gravitic pull of its marketing power. As my colleagues were discussing in …
A clash of titans: Dr. Mabuse vs. my colonoscopy
Dr. Mabuse vs. my Colonoscopy is not, to date, the title of any film in the Mabuse series. But my colonoscopy did clash with my plans to review the 1960s …
“Batman? Are you named for that guy in the funny books?” The Earth-One Paradox
As we all know, when Barry Allen first popped over to Earth-Two in Flash #123, he discovered the 1940s Golden Age Flash he’d grown up reading about was a real …
“Death, invisible death, until all mankind trembles before me!” The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
As the Invisible Dr. Mabuse title appears on screen, we see an invisible man holding up opera glasses behind the lettering. It’s a neat trick, as the phantom is not …
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
When Flash #123 established Jay Garrick was as real as Barry Allen it changed the direction of the DC universe. It also established that at least some comic-book writers in …
To Protect and Serve When Science Goes Bad
What if the SF movies of the 1950s had been documentaries? Realistic portrayals of an America where mad science was part of everyday life, and a federal agency worked to …