After almost a decade of conservative Christianity dominating America’s social and political landscape, it feels like the never-ending debate between science and religion finally is entering a cooling-off period. But just like its protagonist, Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, “Angels & Demons” rushes in just as the party is wrapping up, ready to breathlessly opine [...]
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March 8, 2009
Watchmen
When “Watchmen” was first published in 1985, it was a revelation, a striking piece of sequential art that pushed superhero comics out of the realm of cheap entertainment and into the realm of literature. There had always been comics for grown-ups, but “Watchmen” was the first time members of the capes ‘n’ tights crowd were [...]
February 16, 2009
Crosswalk Follies
I love you, Dover, but you’re killing me. Well, you haven’t killed me yet, but as someone who mostly gets around town on foot, the odds of me getting smashed by a car are pretty good and getting better. Just last week, another pedestrian got smacked by a car in downtown Dover. The pedestrian in [...]
February 16, 2009
Friday the 13th
When Sean S. Cunningham began work on the original “Friday the 13th” almost 30 years ago, he had nothing more than a title and a vague idea about making a horror film in the vein of John Carpenter’s ultra-successful “Halloween”. In the intervening three decades, “Friday” became one of the most profitable horror franchises [...]
November 2, 2008
freaks on film
“Freaky Farley” is a cult movie in search of a cult. It’s a movie for the future—not so much because it’s revolutionary or groundbreaking (it isn’t), but because it was made with an eye toward midnight movie fans and B-movie aficionados destined to discover it in some dusty pile of DVDs decades from now.
“I think [...]
July 18, 2007
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