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Month: November 2022

Ridiculous on Purpose: Longing for the Comic Book Camp of Batman (1966)

  By Matt Levine November 16, 2022 November 17, 2022 Batman, Comic Books, Superheroes
The Batman villains are assembled around a pole in a colorfully-painted building. The Joker, Catwoman, the Riddler, and Two-Face have worried looks on their faces, or appear to have passed out.

|Chris Polley| As I recall, my first exposure to superheroes was not via some personal, transformative comic book shop experience, nor with an obscure film contemporaneous to my early-mid 90s childhood like The Meteor Man. Instead, it was on television. Continue reading

Tagged   Adam West, Batman, superheroes

Krush Groovin’

  By Matt Levine November 8, 2022 November 16, 2022 Michael Schultz
A black-and-white photograph of hip-hop artist LL Cool J circa 1985.

|Matt Levine| An extremely loose retelling of the founding of Def Jam Records by Russell Simmons (here named Walker) and Rick Rubin, Michael Schultz’s Krush Groove (1985) offers a number of cinematic pleasures. But let’s be honest: this movie is all about the soundtrack. Continue reading

Tagged   Krush Groove, Michael Schultz

Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD

  By Matt Levine November 1, 2022 November 16, 2022 Animation, Phil Tippett
Tippett on the right painting a medium-sized model of the Rancor monster. The monster has a hunched back with bumps, long fingers, and claws, and a chunky head. Its color pallet is black, brown and dirt yellow.

|Joe Midthun| I grew up in the middle of the woods. Twelve miles south of the nearest rural village, my world lay tucked into the pines at the end of a quarter mile dirt driveway. The radio was constantly on—a helpful reminder that we were not alone. But, the television, our 19 inch crystal ball… Continue reading

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