Daily Archives: September 5, 2011
Hail, Caesar (and those other apes) – Andy Burns on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Saturday night I walked into a Toronto movie theatre with my pals JP and Denny. We hadn’t yet decided what movie we were going to check out, but there were three on the potential docket – Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Shark Night 3D. While I was partial to latter, the three of us ably decided that Rise of the Planet of the Apes would be the best choice. The reviews have been stellar and the film has held up well at the box office. So we bought our tickets, and then, amazingly to me, we had to stand in line to get in.
More Magic From Alan Moore – David Ward on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century–1969
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century–1969
Top Shelf Productions
Writer: Alan Moore
Artist: Kevin O’Neill
Century–1969 is the second part of the third volume of Moore and O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a series that began as a quasi-homage to Victorian pop culture, whereby well-known characters from late nineteenth-century literature were thrust into the role of superheroes. The books, throughout their twelve-year history, are awash in literary allusions, modern and hundred-year-old jokes, and they betray a deep-seated love for both the classics of various genres and their penny dreadful imitators. Though, as time went on, the books moved from a world on the brink of colossal and unprecedented change, to a world that is so entirely foreign, and yet familiar, that comes closer to our own experiences of the twentieth century.
