Recent content by Doctor Strange

Speaking as a vintage-1976 Deadhead, re two drummers... We always used to say that the Allman Brothers' drummers played in unison for greater power and momentum, whereas the Dead's drummers played around one another to enable rhythmic flexibility. Yeah, it's an oversimplification. But...

Some of us have had very good experiences with Wested: https://wested.com/en-us/collections/other-film-jackets/products/custom-made-german-u-boat-jacket-as-used-in-dr-who-4500-p

Well, as I'm always telling people when showing them my film photos, "Black and white is abstract by its very nature: it doesn't make images that reflect reality anything like our vision sees it." So in that sense, you're right that Scott's current age is less apparent AND less important -...

Edward... I lost access to Disney a while ago, the last Marvel series I watched was Moon Knight... which like most of them, underwhelmed. WandaVision was the only one that really impressed me. And Hawkeye was better than I expected - that Rogers: The Musical sequence is hilarous. I didn't...

SCTV comic genius Joe Flaherty: https://www.avclub.com/joe-flaherty-dead-age-82-sctv-freaks-and-geeks-1851382473 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/joe-flaherty-dead-sctv-1235864525/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/arts/joe-flaherty-dead.html

Edward, since you liked Daredevil, be sure to check out Jessica Jones. It's the best of the Netflix Marvel shows, full stop. And I say this as an old-school Marvel guy who'd never encountered the character before. It's gutsy and disturbing. Krysten Ritter is tremendous in the role, a...

I watched two of the three episodes of Netflix's new Testament: The Story of Moses to get into a Passover frame of mind. This is one of those hybrid series a la The History Channel: a docudrama with talking head commentary from rabbis, priests, scholars - much of which goes out of its way to...

On Chesil Beach (2017)... A couple honeymooning at an English seaside resort in 1962 - despite how accomplished they are otherwise - are both clueless virgins... and things go terribly wrong. I'd tried watching this once before and gave up quickly, but I managed to get through it yesterday...

The Scarlet Letter has been adapated many times. There's a surprisingly good silent film with Lillian Gish from 1926 directed by the great Victor Sjostrom: And re Girl with Green Eyes, I saw it last year and liked it. I posted a brief review...

I recently got myself another vintage film camera in near-mint condition, an Olympus Pen S, made from 1960-64. Like my Pen F SLR, it's a half-frame camera that uses standard 35mm film, but shoots two 18x24mm vertical frames in place of each normal 24x36mm horizontal frame, yielding twice as...

A recent film, Pain Hustlers with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. They're big pharma sales execs who essentially pay off doctors to prescribe their fentanyl-based pain medication, leading to huge profits and Wolf of Wall Street-like excess. But ultimately, Blunt realizes that besides making...

Excellent analysis, Edward. The only other thing I'll say about B:TAS now, and which you alluded to, is that it was the first treatment of the character outside of the comics to take the approach that Batman is his real personality, and Bruce Wayne is the disguise. This revelatory take on...

I've been watching The Power of Film, a new documentary series on Turner Classic Movies. It's one of the best film docs I've seen in a long time, loaded with fascinating observations about movie storytelling... and storytelling in general. Unlike the last film documentary series I watched (The...

Of course, Worf. It had the advantage of having hours, whole seasons, to refine its characters, etc. in a way that even a series of films (like Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy) can't. But really, the thing that made the show special is that the entire production staff - Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Eric...

Of course, I've been on the B:TAS is the BEST EVER adaptation of Batman! team since it first aired. I've said so here dozens of times over the years. While there have been some darn good Bat-projects since it was made, none have understood the character and his world better.