* The first trailer for Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree is out. It’s cut for maximum red-band-osity, but aside from that it does indeed look intriguingly weird, as befits the spiritual (if not literal) sequel/remake/reboot of Hardy’s own The Wicker Man, one of the most intriguingly weird films of all time. At this point I should probably abandon even the pretense of going to see interesting-looking horror movies in the theater — I still haven’t seen fucking Midnight Meat Train, let alone Monsters — but this could be entertaining.
The Wicker Tree – Trailer
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* My Robot 6 colleague Kevin Melrose has the best round-up of the critical beatdown Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark took in today’s papers, and the best headline for it as well. One silver lining I think we can all hope for for this thing is that it could maybe serve as the “Uncle Ben getting murdered”-type catalyst for a late-period U2 creative self-reevaluation and renaissance, which is badly needed right about now. (Fun fact: In the show, Uncle Ben dies not from a burglar that Peter Parker failed to stop, but from an unrelated car accident.)
* Hey, Richard McGuire’s “Here” is online in its entirety. One of the all-time great comics.
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Oh my god. HERE!
“an unrelated car accident”
I like to imagine that makes Spidey’s ethos less “with great power comes great responsibility” and more “you’ll pay world!”
Yeah – I’d watch that.
Wait…Uncle Ben dies HOW? Doesn’t that ruin the whole reason Peter Paker even became Spidey? I understand changes being made to the story for the purpose of making a play, but really?
Man, I must have read “Here” at least three dozen times, and I only just now noticed that the first line is “Honey? I think it’s time” and the last line is “Skip it.”
And the last page still makes me get all teary-eyed. What the hell?!