What’s that, you say? It’s Friday the 13th just a couple of weeks before Halloween?
Well, I guess THAT explains Jason Voorhees’ visit to the Nolan house.
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Cover to “Grendel Omnibus Volume 4: Prime” (Second Edition), Matt Wagner, 2023
Dark Horse Books. (Dark Horse Comics.)
Throwback Thursday: “Dark City” (1998)!
“Dark City” (1998) maybe wasn’t quite as perfect as its most ardent fans make it out to be, but it was still a damned good film — creative, original and caliginously artistic. (It occasionally suffers somewhat in comparison with its spiritual cousin, “The Matrix,” which changed the very medium of movies only a year later.) And what a cast — William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and Rufus Sewell!
I saw this movie on VHS around … 2001, I think. I remember being eager at the time to see the inimitable Hurt — I’d grown up with films like “Gorky Park” (1983) and “The Accidental Tourist” (1988). It was only later in life that I really became a fan of Sewell — after his tour-de-force performance as the Nazi villain in “The Man in the High Castle” (2015-2019).
And how can you beat Connelly as a nightclub crooner? My girlfriend sent me a gem that she found on Youtube — Connelly singing an alternate version of her musical number in the movie, Giovanni Polimeni’s “Sway.” (It’s the second video below.)
By the way, I am linking tonight to Media Graveyard and Polimeni’s Youtube channel.
Poster for “Superman and the Mole Men” (1951)
Lippert Pictures.
Lazy Nolan is *LAZY.*
Artist’s conception of Andromeda active core, NASA, 2005
“This artist’s concept shows a view across a mysterious disk of young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at the core of the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). The region around the black hole is barely visible at the center of the disk. The background stars are the typical older, redder population of stars that inhabit the cores of most galaxies. Spectroscopic observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the blue light consists of more than 400 stars that formed in a burst of activity about 200 million years ago. The stars are tightly packed in a disk that is only a light-year across. Under the black hole’s gravitational grip, the stars are traveling very fast: 2.2 million miles an hour (3.6 million kilometers an hour, or 1,000 kilometers a second) Object Names: M31, Andromeda Galaxy, NGC 224.” — NASA
Cover to “The Saturday Evening Post,” October 26, 1912, art by J. C. Leyendecker
Saturday Evening Post Society; Curtis Publishing Co.
*THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.*
THERE IS A STRANGE MAN IN MY HOUSE.
That’s okay, though — it’s me.
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