Kraven the Hunter Is a Fittingly Terrible Send-Off to the Worst Superhero Movie Franchise
SUMC, RIP
The series ends with an oddly sweet romp about a mismatched couple on a zany road trip across the American West.
The comic-book sequel is a dull, dismal, event-free recap of its predecessor.
A sad, shallow, and pandering movie that shows the MCU has no real stories left to tell.
The anime Mashle: Magic and Muscles offers an absurdist metaphor for politically driven discrimination.
Listless and incoherent, it's a sign of the genre's struggles.
A young philosopher goes from socialist to reluctant libertarian.
State power and oppressive surveillance serve as the backdrop for this animated spy comedy.
What if Ramona Flowers bears some responsibility for creating her seven "evil exes" in the first place?
In the director's own words, this is "a sequel to five different things."
The English economist's unapologetic liberalism often drew the ire of other members of Parliament.
A listless, cynical wrap-up to a decade of chaotic superhero storytelling.
The libertarian creator of alternative comix Hate and Neat Stuff explains why he's fond of the invisible hand and individualism.
The ghost of the so-called father of economics chastises those who would use his words for their own misbegotten ends.
The Little Mermaid was a dull exercise in box-checking. Spider-Verse uses its diverse cast as an opportunity for narrative delights.
In 2018, director James Gunn was fired from the film for gross tweets. But this comic book sequel shows the value of his gross-out sensibility.
One of America's richest art forms suffers for seeming realer than other literature. But the war against "graphic imagery" is really a war against certain truths.
Maria Montessori valued independence and experimentation in a time of authoritarianism.
Copyright law is just one area that must adapt to account for revolutionary A.I. technology.
The U.S. Copyright Office determined that images produced by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted, even though they are generated by user-written prompts.
"This anti-free speech, anti-intellectual, anti-common-sense action deserves all the scorn it can get," says Roy Thomas, former editor in chief of Marvel Comics.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
An aeronautical engineer considers writing a novel about a new start on the moon.
There's real grief in this superhero sequel. But it falls prey to too many Marvel movie problems.
The new DC Comics-based film wants to critique the superhero status quo. Instead, it ends up supporting it.
The series deals with themes of fate, freedom, and choice.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
Williams believed the government had no authority to meddle in religious beliefs. Blasphemy!
Brian Doherty's history of underground comix chronicles how Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and others challenged censorship and increased free speech.
Disreputable and censored comix improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.
"Hold on, now, you're starting to sound like an anarchist..."
The movie's whole idea seems to be that if Batman truly wanted to make Gotham a better place, he'd find some other way to do it, perhaps involving politics.
A Sam Raimi fun house burdened by the Marvel universe's not-so-glorious purpose
Jared Leto stars in a not-quite-Marvel film that inadvertently demonstrates the strengths of the MCU.
It's a Batman movie that seems distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of Batman.
A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education
It's the two Spider-Mans meme in $200 million movie form.
Even the most powerful cosmic demigod can be foiled by the even-more-powerful machinations of bureaucracy.
It's a crude, ugly derivative of a crude, ugly film.
The most subversive thing about the movie is that the director was allowed to make it at all.
Shary Flenniken portrayed her comic strip characters "with a complete lack of adult-world moralizing or editorial restraint."
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