Talia al Ghul is a master criminal, a lethal genius, a great love & opponent of the Batman. She has toppled empires and presidents & for a brief moment owned the Earth. How do orientalism, sexism & classism make her so powerful & so hard for readers to grapple with?
DetailsA Christmas Carol (1938 Reginald Owen)
We do not see a sick boy feeling sorry for himself because he cannot slide on the ice, but we see a boy who is enjoying watching his brothers have fun! This is in direct contrast to Scrooge, who enjoys nothing, but has everything.
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The Expanse #1: (@CorinnaBechko Aragon @FrancescoSegala @eDukeDW) get on board and find out what trouble you can really get into in the cold confines of space! #BoomStudios #TheExpanse
DetailsA Christmas Carol (1984 George C. Scott)
Scott’s Ebenezer is different from most, often portrayed as an older frail man, shrewd and humorless but without physical strength, but Scott’s very size lends to a quite different take on the character.
DetailsA Christmas Carol (1999 Patrick Stewart)
I am particularly fond of Patrick Stewart’s transformation at the end. His inability to laugh at first is both humorous, joyful and a bit sad as we see a man that has not heartily laughed in so long that his body does not know how.
DetailsStephen King’s The Stand (2020)
CBS All Access has remade the Stephen King classic The Stand, first produced in 1994 about a super flu that wipes out most of humanity setting up the ultimate struggle between good and evil.
DetailsMark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks is an epistolary novel and a faux document comic about the sins of America and the secrets of a small town. Based on his multimedia property with David Lynch, Frost covers everything in his history from Jeremiah Johnson to UFOs and Body Heat.
DetailsA Christmas Carol (2019)
The cast was exceptional. Guy Pearce as Scrooge was amazing, portraying Ebenezer as an OCD inflicted character whose past horrors broke him forever.
DetailsDisney held its Investor’s Day conference and unloaded a plethora of content across the world covering two of the biggest fandoms. Star Wars and the Marvel Universe.
DetailsChiho Saito and Be-PaPas’ Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution revisits characters from a teenage drama in their thirties.
DetailsIt would be great to see Blue Beetle, Kid Flash or Power Girl and they could do the Terra storyline. There is a bevy of well known and lesser known characters to pull from.
DetailsFood of the Gods
The film is loosely based on a novel by H.G. Wells, but reduces the source material to an “Earth Strikes Back” ecology movie, which was popular in 1976 when the movie was released.
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