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Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Underground Comix
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American comics were almost entirely childish and pretty insipid after the Senate hearings in the mid-’50s. Unsurprisingly there was a reaction to this, and some cartoonists started putting out alternatives, full of drugs and sex and anti-estab[…]

Billy Cor Knows The Score: The Watchmen Trailer
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I’ve often been told that what makes Watchmen “unfilmable” is its complexity: this is surely not true. Generally this argument confuses complexity for detail, which nowadays is bread and butter to a sufficiently obsessive director a[…]

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Cheap Shots: How To Stay A Head In Film Reviewing
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Here’s how, from the Guardian website. You review Not Real Films…[…]

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