tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56135815969309048292024-03-06T17:47:13.214-08:00ROCK SexThe actual inclusive, holistic history of Rock and Soul Music!, by Tym StevensTym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-52726491374279219252024-01-18T23:19:00.000-08:002024-03-06T17:46:06.851-08:00BEST MOVIES + TV: 2023<br />
<center><font color="ffffff"><b><i>The Great, The Good, and The Interesting!</i></b></font></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">BEST MOVIES: 2023</a><br />
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;"><ul><li> <a href="#C1A">Drama</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1B">Comedy</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1C">Dream</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1D">Nightmare</a></li></ul></div>
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<li> <a href="#C1E">Mystery</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1F">Heroes</a></li>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">BEST DOCUMENTARIES: 2023</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">BEST TV: 2023</a><br />
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;"><ul><li> <a href="#C3A">Drama</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3B">Mini-Series</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3C">Dream</a></li></ul></div>
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<li> <a href="#C3D">Animation</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3E">Heroes</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3F">Comedy</a></li><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">BEST RESTORATION</a><br />
<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <a href="#C5">C R I T E R I O N</a><br />
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<small>• This will often spotlight directors for special merit.<br />
But Auteur Theory is a shoebox; films are a collaborative effort with everyone involved.</small><br />
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<small>• Because of varied global distribution, films from 2022 are listed in parenthesis.</small><br />
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<small>• The author reviews creative media by personal discretion, and recieves no compensation from copyright owners.</small><br />
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<center>Dramas, Histories, and Thought</center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>POOR THINGS</b></i></font> <small>(Ireland/UK/US) ⇧</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A constructed woman reconstructs herself the way she wants.</i></font><br />
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In this visionary and revisionist interpolation of <i>“Frankenstein”</i>, a Victorian woman evolves through a second life from child mind to person. Her picaresque journey questions all the restrictions that society tries to place on her.<br />
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos <small>(DOGTOOTH, THE LOBSTER)</small> abridges Gray’s epistolary book into a feminist allegory dismantling oppression, which glides along merrily on a breathless pace, surreal imagery, and the riveting Emma Stone. The blunt poetry of her shrewd dialogue will make you rewind to quote it.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
Shelley’s “Frankenstein” <font size=“2”>(1818)</font></small><br />
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Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN <font size=“2”>(1980)</font>; Branagh’s FRANKENSTEIN <font size=“2”>(1994)</font>; Garland’s EX MACHINA <font size=“2”>(2015)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Snapshots of the pivotal moments in a young Mississippi delta woman's life.</i></font><br />
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Writer/director Raven Jackson's film will take your breath away.<br />
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The contender for best-shot and most soulful film of the year is the one nobody knows. It is a mosaic of memories, told in languidly hopscotch order, that flows fluid as a dream. Mack's story is as warmly human as the golden light dappling the swamp forests around her. The camera lives in her breathing range, reflects her thoughts, holds each long moment with the zen of being. It is rustic poetry about how we recollect the vivid highs of family, love, life turns, and nature.<br />
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The impressionist indie achieves its intimacy from Jomo Fray's cinematography, caressing the joys/pains of life: riding in flatbeds down dusty backroads, laughing on chipping porches, crying when it's all that can be done, loving the rain in balmy marshlands, swirling the river silt through fingers, and holding the longest and most resonant hugs in cinema history.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Osage tribe struck black gold in 1920s Oklahoma, but then the greedy came to take it.</i></font><br />
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This is a true story. It exposes how the oil industry stole control of Oklahoma tribal wells for their power; infers how this was connected to the nearby 1921 Tulsa race massacre; and how the FBI was created to address the crime. It speaks just as much to now, and how justice is still deferred for Native Americans by corruption.<br />
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This is a solid movie told well and worth the time. That said, it focuses too much on DiCapprio’s character while underserving Lily Gladstone, and a reversal would have been more interesting and powerful. Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker wrestled with the long running time for years; another option might be to issue an extended mini-series on premium cable, as Luhrman and Tarantino have done, allowing more balanced depth to Gladstone and her Osage family.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THERE WILL BE BLOOD <font size=“2”>(2007)</font>; ‘The Spirit Of Crazy Horse’ <font size=“2”>(doc, 1990)</font></small><br /><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RUSTIN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Bayard Rustin organized the 1963 March On Washington, the Woodstock of civil rights.</i></font><br />
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The major leaders of the Civil Rights Movement fought each other as much as their oppressors, delaying progress. Ostracized for being Gay, Rustin forced the factions together by sheer force of charm and steel to stage the largest peaceful protest ever, and changed America for the better.<br />
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This finely observed biopic, starring Colman Domingo and an all-star cast, gives him the proper due he has always deserved.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the essential documentary series, <i>‘Eyes On The Prize’</i> <font size=“2”>(1986)</font>; SELMA <font size=“2”>(2014)</font>; I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO <font size=“2”>(doc', 2016)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WAR PONY</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The struggling lives of two Lakota youths on the contemporary reservation.</i></font><br />
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Co-directors Riley Keouch and Gina Gammell’s blunt film, based on true events, reveals the harsh squalor that ruins Native American lives. A young man (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) hustles every angle trying to get forward, while an abused pre-teen (Ladrainian Crazy Thunder) ends up homeless and dealing drugs. Bleak but clear-eyed, the film is an appeal for equity and agency.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME <font size=“2”>(2015)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MAESTRO</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A bio-pic of the celebrated composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein.</i></font><br />
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The public Bernstein was America’s premier conductor and acclaimed composer. In private, his marriage was in turmoil through his flagrant affairs and omnivorous persona.<br />
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Director/co-writer/star Bradley Cooper frames a pared focus of that life into a gripping drama through period film stocks, dramatic chutzpah, and the tenacious duende of Carey Mulligan <small>(SHE SAID)</small> as his life-partner and foil, Felicia Montealegre.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WEST SIDE STORY <font size=“2”>(1960, and 2021)</font>; TAR <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PRISCILLA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.</i></font><br />
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If Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS <small>(2022)</small> was an Opera (Remix), then Sofia Coppola's counter-melody is a prom psalm. Gentle and pensive, it is exactly what it should be: a teen girl's fairy tale romance come true and the painful realities that followed, told with sober grace in insular snapshots. A lovely and perceptive film infused by the depth of Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi's spot-on performances.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Watch as a double-feature with ELVIS <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>TORI AND LOKITA</b></i></font> <small>(France/Belgium, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two African teens trying to immigrate into Belgium are beset by bureaucracy and criminals.</i></font><br />
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The Dardenne brothers’ subtle expose of the plight of African immigrants looks like an artful doc’, plays like a terse thriller, touches like a confession.<br />
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The reality comes from the unaffected performances of amateurs Pablo Schils (Tori, 11) and Mbundu Joely (Lokita, 16) whose human bond offsets all of the cold indifference of office drones and street thugs misguiding their future.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HIS HOUSE <font size=“2”>(UK/US, 2020)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EARTH MAMA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A pregnant woman tries to earn her kids back from foster care.</i></font><br />
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Savanah Leaf’s quiet debut reads like diary, hewing as close to its subject as clothing. While the cast has a few big name actors supporting, it’s newcomer lead Tia Nomore who carries the movie completely with her natural performance. You’re rooting for her the whole way as she fends through agencies, advice, courses, missteps, and decisions. Contemplative, poignant, human.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Protesting Climate Change, a loose group of activists concoct a symbolic blow against an oil conglomerate.</i></font><br />
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The only eco-terrorists in the world are corporations destroying nature, who bounce-blame protestors as ‘eco-terrorists’.<br />
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Based on Andreas Malm’s nonfiction essay book, co-writer and star Ariela Barer steers a thought experiment exploring the complexity of possible physical activism against stagnant corporate powers. Where is the line between being too helpless from inaction, to going too far in becoming as immoral as your oppressor?<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE EAST <font size=“2”>(2013)</font>; NIGHT MOVES <font size=“2”>(2013)</font></small><br /><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NYAD</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>At 60, Diana Nyad decides to re-attempt her youthful quest to swim from Cuba to Florida.</i></font><br />
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In 1978, 28-year-old champion swimmer Nyad nearly succeeded in swimming from Havana to Key West, but was undone by bad logistics.<br />
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In 2010 she decided to try again. This is an intimate character drama as well as a thrilling sports flick, gaining its power from Annette Bening and Jodie Foster portraying the radiant friendship at the core of Nyad’s confidence to beat the odds. A rousing triumph in every way.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ANATOMY OF A FALL</b></i></font> <small>(France)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A death at a chalet home leads into a murder trial.</i></font><br />
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A woman is held up to suspicion from every angle after being accused of murder. An emotional drama as riveting as a thriller which keeps you guessing all the way.<br />
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Justine Triet’s excellent film handily won the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe for screenplay. It pinions on the complex performance of Sandra Hüller, while stealthily examining her examiners: the assumptions inherent in gauging personal lives and female suspects projected by prosecutors, witnesses, the press, and the audience.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SAINT OMER</b></i></font> <small>(France, 2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Senegalese law student goes on trial for letting her baby die.</i></font><br />
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Alice Diop's thoughtful feature debut almost plays as a counterpoint to ANATOMY OF A FALL; if that film tracks subjective interpretations that resolve into an objective clarity, this one lays out objective facts that leave you questioning everything revealed. Who is true, what is real, how much is our reflection? It thrives in the space between a Bresson film's monastic distance and a Bergman film's spiritual pensiveness.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PAST LIVES</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two South Korean kids become separated a world apart. As adults, what is the bond holding them together?</i></font><br />
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As a Korean man and a woman raised in New York reconnect in communication, they are conflicted about their connection as people.<br />
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Celine Song’s gentle and resonant film channels personal experience as it straddles the divide/bridge between Seoul and NYC. Greta Lee (<i>‘Russian Doll’</i>) breaks out fully as the personable lead.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Fei’s SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN <font size=“2”>(China, 1948)</font>; Duras and Resnais’ HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR <font size=“2”>(France/Japan, 1959)</font>; Wong’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE <font size=“2”>(Hong Kong, 2000)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHORTCOMINGS</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Is everyone in Ben’s life advancing on, or just escaping him?</i></font><br />
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In Berkeley, the cynical Ben pretends to aspire while resting comfortably in a rut. As his circle and stability come apart, he has to face change within himself.<br />
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Adrian Tomine’s astute graphic novel was the perfect blueprint for an indie comedy, and his collab’ with director Randall Park nails it. Hilarious, canny, quotable, this all-star affair breezily captures the crafty book while ornamenting it.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ANNIE HALL <font size=“2”>(1977)</font>; PARIS, 13th DISTRICT <font size=“2”>(France, 2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHOWING UP</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A reclusive sculptor begins to stir as she tends an injured bird.</i></font><br />
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After family trauma, Lizzy (Michelle Williams) has become as immobile as her contorted figurines. Kelly Reichhardt’s zen dramedy watches her seriocomic chrysalis as patiently as a time-lapse doc. Along the way, it follows the mercurial spirits at the art school with a remarkable sensitivity for understanding how their creative processes work.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>CHILE ’76</b></i></font> <small>(Chile/Argentina, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A prosperous woman during Pinochet’s dictatorship begins to see the plight of the oppressed.</i></font><br />
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The rich don’t know the lives their success treads on, or pretend they don’t. Carmen has seen things she can’t turn away from which undermine her comfort bubble, and are leading her somewhere uncertain.<br />
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Manuela Martelli, with co-writer Alejandra Moffat, unveils the military dictatorship sidelong through the class divide it is built on, as elite lives begin to intersect with the oppressed.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Costa-Gavras’ MISSING <font size=“2”>(1982)</font>; 'The Trials Of Henry Kissinger' <font size=“2”>(doc', 2002)</font>; NO <font size=“2”>(Chile/France/US, 2012)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EL CONDE</b></i></font> <small>(Chile)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What if Pinochet was a literal vampire?</i></font><br />
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Larrain’s black comedy satirizes real life Fascistic demons through the metaphor of a B/W horror film. As wicked and unsparing as Bunuel, the artful ride is most valuable for its grilling of all despots and the idiot masses that continually enable them.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC <font size=“2”>(France, 1928)</font>; Bunuel’s THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL <font size=“2”>(Mexico, 1962)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE COLOR PURPLE</b></i></font> <small>(2023)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Abused all her life in the early-1900’s American South, Celie looks for deliverance.</i></font><br />
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There’s a tricky balance for this musical version: song in service of story. Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning 1982 book covers a long span with a shrewd eye and razor tongue. The 1985 film’s power lay in translating the urgent ache of the plot and dialogue faithfully with visceral impact.<br />
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This film adapts the 2005 stage musical, where the structure personifies the inner struggle of various women through songs. The ensemble approach rewards with a series of great showstoppers, but pulls focus off of Celie while streamlining the dialogue and plot. It's a compromise with richochet rewards.<br />
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It still works and everyone should see it. It’s beautifully shot, the cast is spot on (especially Taraji P. Henson as Shug), every song is rousing or moving, and it still makes you cry each of the ways. That said, maybe the book and first film are the full dramatic experience, and this is like an interesting remix album.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
If Alice Walkers <i>"The Color Purple"</i> (1982) twines the post-Slavery experience of the American South and Africa back together, her ambitious cosmopolitan sequel <b><i>"The Temple Of My Familiar"</i></b> (1989) expands this into tying the world together.</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’</i> <font size=“2”>(1974)</font>; THE COLOR PURPLE <font size=“2”>(1985)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CHEVALIER</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of the Caribbean who became a celebrated 18th Century Classical composer.</i></font><br />
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A good film about a neglected musician who deserves deeper appreciation, though crafted a bit slick and conventional.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Forman’s AMADEUS <font size=“2”>(1984)</font>; MOZART’S SISTER <font size=“2”>(France, 2010)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STRANGE WAY OF LIFE</b></i></font> <small>(Spain)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two cowboys are secretly tied to each other.</i></font><br />
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Bored with retirement, Almodóvar keeps coming back strong. Here, less is more in a 30-minute short film starring Pablo Pascal and Ethan Hawke that strips the Western script for something more daring and soulful.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN <font size=“2”>(2005)</font></small><br /><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BARBIE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Barbie wakes up from the gender shams and consumer bubble to become a full person. And you can too!</i></font><br />
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The Barbie doll used to be shorthand for everything conformist, manufactured, and phony, often viewed as femininity standards enforced by misogynists. But if you grew up playing with her, maybe your outlook was tempered by your own experience instead.<br />
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Greta Gerwig <small>(LADY BIRD)</small> handily does the impossible by transforming the plastic totem into a feminist signifier. With day-glo aplomb and jaunty humor, she ridicules enforced gender roles and programmed attitudes in the real world, creating a metaphor for personal liberation. And America Ferrara’s speech should be required viewing in every school in the nation.<br />
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Note: ‘She-Hulk, Attorney At Law’ did much of this a year before with all of the sharp satire but little of the due acclaim, because incels. It’s still excellent, for any laggers.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”</i> <font size=“2”>(1991)</font> and <i>“Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man“</i> <font size=“2”>(1999)</font>, by Susan Faludi</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TOY STORY 2 <font size=“2”>(1999)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET.</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1970, a young girl navigates puberty and existence.</i></font><br />
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Until 1970, it was impossible to deal realistically in YA books with the changes young girls go through. Judy Blume’s charming bestseller swept that aside with wit and honesty, helping decades of anxious teens deal with puberty in healthy and positive ways.<br />
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This letter-perfect adaptation is all-wins, a warm and hilarious coming-of-age romp with a vibrant cast. Mom (Rachel McAdams) is kind, Gram (Kathy Bates) is irrepressible, and Abby Ryder Fortson (everyone’s favorite daughter from the first two ANT-MAN movies) should be a star from now on. A good time that makes you feel great.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THEATER CAMP</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>This may be the final curtain at the summer camp for theater kids.</i></font><br />
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Every summer, kids converge on a holiday camp that teaches them all aspects of creating and presenting a theater show, from rigging to singing. But is the tradition about to end from mismanagement?<br />
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Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s indie mockumentary is a careening rickshaw of guffaws. The crack improv troupe is killing it warts and all, and the kids astound with their comic timing and musical skills.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN <font size=“2”>(1996)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>RYE LANE</b></i></font> <small>(England, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two London hipsters hook up and discover that they are quirky humans.</i></font><br />
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A Rom-Com that antidotes Rom-Coms. Dropkicking the slick, Raine Allen-Miller’s savvy debut celebrates how awkward, down-home, goofy, confusing, and surprising that dating can be, even when you didn’t think you were.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>POLITE SOCIETY</b></i></font> <small>(England)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two British-Pakistani sisters pratfall into a James Bond adventure.</i></font><br />
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Nida Manzoor, fresh off the success of her comedy sitcom <i>‘We Are Lady Parts’</i>, gives us a funny bonding picture wrapped in a spy spoof. It’s especially astute at tracing Pakistani traditions within current British life.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>'Ms. Marvel'</i> <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ASTEROID CITY</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Everyone congregates in the desert town for the UFO convention, including some drop-ins.</i></font><br />
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Wes Andeerson's films are always enjoyable for their wit and style. Maybe the panoramic staging in Kodachrome colors entranced me most this time, but the story is a fun rollick with a formidable cast.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
Chris Ware’s <i>‘Acme Novelty Library’</i> comics</small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Tati's MON ONCLE <font size=“2”>(France, 1958)</font>; Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH <font size=“2”>(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Rat Catcher</b></i></font><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The Swan</b></i></font><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Poison</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Wes Anderson’s four short films adapting short stories by Roald Dahl.</i></font><br />
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Dahl is renowned for all-ages books like <i>"Charlie And The Chocolate Factory"</i>, <i>"James And The Giant Peach"</i>, <i>"Matilda"</i>, and <i>"The BFG"</i>. If those fun works were laced with sharpness, his adult works were a scalpel.<br />
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The wonder here is the staging of them: the famed ensemble quotes the entire text of a short story as dioramic staging revolves all around their actions in real time. Inspired backdrops and clever transitions support stellar turns by Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, and Dev Patel. A theatrical delight that challenges how films can tell stories.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Melies’ THE DIABOLIC TENANT <font size=“2”>(France, 1909)</font>; KWAIDAN <font size=“2”>(Japan, 1964)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>AMANDA</b></i></font> (Italy)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A friendless rich girl alienates everyone.</i></font><br />
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Carolina Cavalli's deadpan comedy follows a no-fit Twenty, who's abrasive manner pushes all away, in her push to find a friend. What could have been another cringe-binge is leavened by star Benedetta Porcaroli's balance of earnestness against the obnoxious. There are many laughs and insights along the way building up into the wind-up.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>INDIANA JONES And The Dial Of Destiny</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The sage adventurer may have discovered the key to time itself.</i></font><br />
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The cleverness of James Mangold’s reverent film is in the duality of bringing Indy’s life full circle while bringing the audience’s lifelong experience of the character along with it.<br />
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There’s also the fact that it is a sharply crafted adventure with the wisecracking Phoebe Waller-Bridge. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK <font size=“2”>(1981)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE CREATOR</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>He has every reason to hate the sentient android girl he has to protect.</i></font><br />
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This cyberpunk parable was the brilliant film of the summer that everyone missed. Catch up to the worth.<br />
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Set 100 years after the US entered into the Vietnam War, (director of <small>ROGUE ONE</small>) Gareth Edwards’ allegory roasts military imperialism that disregards all life -organic or synthetic- purely for power. Couched within is a moving story of human bonding, and a questioning of our bias against lifeforms outside ourselves. The contemplation of Nationalism and AI is timely and timeless.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the LONE WOLF AND CUB films <font size=“2”>(Japan, 1970s)</font>; BLADE RUNNER <font size=“2”>(1982)</font>; ELYSIUM <font size=“2”>(2013)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE ARTIFICE GIRL</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Who is the girl on the screen?</i></font><br />
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Less spoilers, the better. This indie film proves less can be best with a handful of actors, a captivating premise, some serious smarts, and resonant twists.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
MARJORIE PRIME <font size=“2”>(2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>WONKA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A musical prequel to the classic 1971 film.</i></font><br />
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I’m going to say the straight truth: the 1971 film is far better than Dahl’s 1964 book. It does so by streamlining the sprawl, focusing the moral message, mixing in copious literature quips,<a href="http://www.kentonlarsen.com/2012/08/the-literary-allusions-of-willy-wonka.html" target="_blank">></a> and spotlighting the sly host with the delectable casting of Gene Wilder.<br />
<small>(Dahl didn’t understand this, and wrote an inferior sequel in spite.)</small><br />
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Tim Burton attempted to counter-adapt this sideways pretty well in 2005 (‘adapting the book’, while still quietly homaging the first film). Paul King’s (the <small>PADDINGTON</small> films) prequel to the first film is a clear labor of love, from the attention to story details and Dahl themes to the lavish set pieces and spritely musical numbers. Timothee Chalamet holds it together with bright charm as the young Wonka, and newcomer Calah Lane embodies the requisite moral heart. Does it match the ’71 film? Motley assortment. Will you have a fine time all the way? Scrumptiously.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T <font size=“2”>(1953)</font>; MATILDA The Musical <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE LITTLE MERMAID</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Arielle wants a life beyond constrictions out in the bigger world.</i></font><br />
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Disney has been remaking their classic animateds as live-action films. Niki Caro’s <small>MULAN</small> (undermined by the 2020 pandemic) deeply improved on the 1998 version, and so does this.<br />
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While the 1989 classic relaunched Disney’s fortunes, it’s full of period flaws and attitudes that don’t hold well. The new film, as personified by the ebullient Halle Bailey, puts the best fin forward in every way: expansive, sensitive, inclusive, re-inventive, gladsome. Immerse yourself.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE LITTLE MERMAID <font size=“2”>(1989)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>APORIA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>When tragedy strikes, maybe there is a do-over.</i></font><br />
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But if you could do it all over again, should you? This gripping indie thriller is also a finely wrought character drama, led by the conflicted Judy Greer.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PRIMER <font size=“2”>(2004)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE</b></i></font> <small>(Philippines, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The famed action-moviemaker may have one more real adventure in her.</i></font><br />
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A no-budget wonder filmed with local friends that scores like any blockbuster. Martika Ramirez Escobar’s always amusing debut feature does so on the charm of its senior star, theater actor Sheila Francisco, and its curveball script mashing up the real world with the reel world.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE</b></i></font> <small>(Chile, 2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>As all the provincial animals start to die, a long-lost woman reappears out of the river.</i></font><br />
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Although she died twenty years ago, a mother (Mia Maestro) reappears unchanged by time. As she begins to appear to her family members, all of their dysfunction since her death starts to surface, paralleled by imbalances in the natural world around them. This softly magic realist drama co-written and directed by Francisca Alegría is an interesting allegory about reflection and renewal.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TEOREMA <font size=“2”>(1968)</font>; BELOVED <font size=“2”>(1998)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THEY CLONED TYRONE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>After he died, he woke up the next morning.</i></font><br />
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John Boyega stars in a satire of how inner city communities are manipulated by The Man. The political outlook can be coloring-book but the points are incisive enough, and it’s a lot of fun.<br />
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ATTACK THE BLOCK <font size=“2”>(2011)</font>; <i>‘Black Lightning’</i>, Season One <font size=“2”>(2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ATTACHMENT</b></i></font> <small>(Denmark, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The troubled Jewish woman may need an exorcism.</i></font><br />
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This low-key indie film is already interesting as a budding romantic encounter and terse family drama. It’s supplementally fascinating ushering in Kabbalah rituals as events ramp up into crisis.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE POSSESSION <font size=“2”>(2012)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>A HAUNTING IN VENICE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The sleuth Poirot may be up against evil itself.</i></font><br />
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In the third new film, Christie’s fastidious sherlock confronts the supernatural. Pitched perhaps too hard as a horror film in the trailers, it is actually a stylish suspense thriller exuberant in its tasteful craft. Kenneth Branagh wrings every inch of creepy atmosphere out of Venice along with operatic flourishes from his star cast, including Michelle Yeoh and Tina Fey.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WHAT LIES BENEATH <font size=“2”>(2000)</font>; MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS <font size=“2”>(2017)</font>; DEATH ON THE NILE <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHARPER</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Who’s angling who to get that inheritance?</i></font><br />
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A cutting satire about greed told in nonlinear chapters, each upending your perception of what’s being done by who and why. An all-star cast (with new breakout Brianna Middleton) twines more twists than a hawser rope.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HOUSE OF GAMES <font size=“2”>(1987)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE ORIGIN OF EVIL</b></i></font> <small>(Canada-France, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A woman discovers her rich father and his venomous family.</i></font><br />
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A working-class drudge is ushered into a pit of vipers in this thriller and class exam. Who are any of these people behind their social masks?<br />
<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PURPLE NOON <font size=“2”>(France, 1960)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>EILEEN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>She wants something more than her nowhere life.</i></font><br />
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A young woman in small town oblivion is sparked by a new person, and then everything changes. This film is a prism which fascinates at every angle; is it a wry dramedy, a coming-of-age, a first romance, a family drama? Yes, and then there's a turning point at full throttle. Quietly great, with fine performances by Thomasin McKenzie, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, and Anne Hathaway.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE NIGHT OF THE 12th</b></i></font> <small>(France, 2022)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>When a provincial woman is killed, the investigation unravels the town.</i></font><br />
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Based loosely on a true story, framed akin to a reality doc’, this procedural mystery tacitly questions our perceptions and obsessions in attempting to achieve closure after tragedy.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SANCTUARY</b></i></font> <small>(2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two people in a room, and something’s going on.</i></font><br />
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She’s there in the fancy hotel suite to interview for a corporate job. From there, events become a fluid duel of wits and roles that interrogate control itself. Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott hypnotize in an intimate tryst as dramatic as a stage play.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SLEUTH <font size=“2”>(England, 1972)</font>; Russell's CRIMES OF PASSION <font size=“2”>(Unrated version, 1984)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE ROYAL HOTEL</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Taking odd jobs for their tourism, two women reach a dangerous cul-de-sac in the Aussie outback.</i></font><br />
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Gleeson’s true documentary <small>HOTEL COOLGARDIE (2016)</small> exposed a desert bar for how its sexist excesses became dangerous. Kitty Green's film interpretation is a steady psychological drama that thrums like a Hitchcock thriller, dissecting toxic masculinity in both lenses. Julia Garner and the versatile Jessica Henwick excel as the tourist friends caught in the middle.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE ASSISTANT <font size=“2”>(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BOSTON STRANGLER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In the mid-'60s, Boston was under seige by a serial killer.</i></font><br />
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A gripping true-life thriller, focusing proper spotlight on the two female journalists who bucked the system to expose serial murders of women that the police were ignoring.
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE KILLER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The assassin is targeted.</i></font><br />
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David Fincher and Michael Fassbender should be a slam-dunk. This revenge film often feels too familiar and unintentionally comic, but it’s still generally effective.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
many other Revenge and Assassin movies</small><br />
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<center>Films from Word/Art sources</center><br />
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<center><small>Art by <a href="https://www.tymstevens.com/" target="_blank">Tym Stevens</a>;<br />
bigger <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/171681709/GUARDIANS-OF-THE-GALAXY-Vol-3" target="_blank">here</a></small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, Vol. 3</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A superb finale to the space comedy series, both touching and grandiose.</i></font><br />
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The running joke of the series is how the galactic saviors are immature, still blurty as High School. This finale ushers them into stages of maturity to advance onward.<br />
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The gravitas starts with the heartbreaking backstory of Rocket, a bio-engineered raccoon whose life has been pain. By extension, this deeply moving critique of animal testing condemns the cold brutality of the military industrial complex, with a corporate villain misusing science to distort and destroy life.<br />
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These heavy themes swing on the sinew of the group’s patented slapstick, absurdism, and quips. The vitality of the trilogy has been that it is <i>‘Arrested Development’</i> in outer space. The balancing of the fun with the profound is what transforms the finale into such a wholly satisfying apex.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS <font size=“2”>(1932)</font>; WATERSHIP DOWN <font size=“2”>(1978)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ANT-MAN And THE WASP: Quantumania</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Small-time heroes hit the big time.</i></font><br />
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The two shrinking heroes are often dismissed with callous sizeism. The reality is that they are the gateway to a vast under-universe beyond meager comprehensions.<br />
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If the first two films were family comedies grounded in a familiar city, the finale dives deep into a mind-boggling alternate universe. Visionary imagination tends to leave trad critics and pedestrian viewers behind, while rewarding audiences hungry for true creativity. This is a rich thrill-ride in every right way. Later, haters.<br />
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(Cut to: trad critics and awards boards recoiling into the safety of Eurocentric historicals, Class soaps, and angsty indies.<br />
ANT-MAN: Ha, banality!)<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FANTASTIC VOYAGE <font size=“2”>(1966)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE MARVELS</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Three women protect the universe while expanding it.</i></font><br />
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"Feminist Empowerment Movie Doxed By Anti-Marvel Press." There, your tabloid headline is fixed.<br />
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Never mind the trolls, here’s the triumph. With astounding economy, this enthused cruise makes all the right moves. From the free-for-all switching-places action sequence (condensing everyone together immediately), to the Bollywood musical planet, to the pro-refugees analogy, to the Flirkin flips, to the positive representation of Islam, to the super-empowerment of diverse women (bisexual, Pakistani, African-American). Marvelous every minute.<br />
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Which brings us to the journalistic truth: this is just as much a feminist empowerment movie as BARBIE, and far more imaginative. 30 and print it.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
CAPTAIN MARVEL <font size=“2”>(2019)</font>; <i>'WandaVision'</i> <font size=“2”>(2021)</font>; <i>'Ms. Marvel'</i> <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BOY AND THE HERON</b></i></font> <small>(Japan, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Removed from the War to the countryside, the orphan boy finds a secret world.</i></font><br />
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Some may fixate to how it compares to what the legendary Miyazaki has done before, but the payoff lies in the innovations he hasn’t done before: the wildly Expressionistic fire sequences (more akin to his late partner, Takahata); the subtle CG atmospheric layerings (reflections, light, architecture); the ramifications of time contemplated by the seasoned master (lineage, sequence, possibility); and a hallucinatory dream story almost Dada in its spirit of freeform abandon.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPIRITED AWAY <font size=“2”>(Japan, 2001)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Gwen introduces Miles to the vast alternate universes of Spider-powered people.</i></font><br />
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The first film was a major leap forward, an emotional story told with boldly innovative craft. Amazing all, this follow-up is even better.<br />
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This single movie is several brilliant animation films in one. Using new painterly tech, it stuns with finely-crafted sequences in styles like watercolor, pencil, or pen-and-ink; swinging out into graffiti bombs, benday dot comics, legos, and punk xerography; swiveling its journey from intimate confessionals to balletic action scenes to an infinite Bollywood world. It continually deepens the emotional depth of its leads, even while introducing a vast array of Spider variants in an escalation of fantastical grandeur.<br />
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And it’s only the middle hinge of the trilogy, yet as grand as any finale.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPIDER-MAN: No Way Home <font size=“2”>(2021)</font>; DOCTOR STRANGE And The Multiverse Of Madness <font size=“2”>(2020)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ELEMENTAL</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>When Fire Met Water.</i></font><br />
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Let’s be clear: Pixar makes movies for adults who remember the wonder of childhood; other animation studios pump out formula clatter which they strobe at kids. Opposites.<br />
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Like <small>SOUL</small>, <small>TURNING RED</small>, and <small>LUCA</small>, this is a fun ride with impeccable design craft, unique characters, and a rousing story. Anyone dismissing this level of quality is just a hack or a fool.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>High School can be a slippery slope when you’re pretending to be like everyone else (pretending to be like everyone else).</i></font><br />
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Dreamworks Animation can often be too clatter/clutter. Even their trailers are all sass and tympani.<br />
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In a promising turn, this winning spree parallels all the claymation charm of Aardman (<small>WALLACE AND GROMMIT</small>, <small>CHICKEN RUN</small>) with the wily stories and fine craft of Pixar. It understands teens and their potential with great warmth and playful wit. Lana Condor and Jane Fonda (!) are ace amongst lots of inspired spectacle and goofy goings-on.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE LITTLE MERMAID <font size=“2”>(2023)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CHICKEN RUN: Dawn Of The Nugget</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Chickens of the world, unite!</i></font><br />
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The return of Aardman Animations itself! If CHICKEN RUN <small>(2000)</small> spoofed the grimy fascism of Orwell's <i>"Animal Farm"</i>, this lovely sequel goofs on the sleek consumerism of Huxley's <i>"Brave New World"</i>. Amazing stop-motion animation, beautiful forest sets and Mod-era Bond villain lairs, gentle humor, and welcome jolts of absurdism abound.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SUZUME</b></i></font> <small>(Japan, 2022)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>She opens the magic door to a surreal world that might destroy ours.</i></font><br />
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CoMix Wave Films specializes in Fantasy/Romances like YOUR NAME <small>(2016)</small> and WEATHERING WITH YOU <small>(2019)</small>. They really go all out here with the Studio Ghibli homages in this schoolgirl-meets-Fantasy epic. Check out all of their smart films.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Stuido Ghibli's WHISPER OF THE HEART <font size=“2”>(Japan, 1995)</font> and HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE <font size=“2”>(Japan, 2004)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>NIMONA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The disgraced knight gains an impossible ally.</i></font><br />
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Corruption has shut the champion out, but his combustable accomplice may be a worse problem. Based on the graphic novel by ND Stephenson (<i>'Lumberjanes'</i>), this Netflix Animation frolic coin-flips the scrip on knights, kingdoms, dragons, and legends. Riz Ahmed and Chloe Grace Moretz have a comical blast as the odd couple.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN</b></i></font> <small>(France)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The anxieties surrounding Tokyo earthquakes affect certain people in unexpected ways.</i></font><br />
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A separating couple, an office drone, a missing cat, and the mysterious Frog cross paths as their lives take surreal turns. This is clearly a labor of love for Pierre Földes, who adapts/directs/scores/voices an array of Haruki Murakami short stories into one interlacing narrative.<br />
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This mature animated film captures the literate, subtly erotic, dreamy, and quietly magic realist tenor of the famed author's work, using natural performances and a shifting mix of animation styles. Smart craft.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Linklater's WAKING LIFE <font size=“2”>(US, 2001)</font>; Scorsese's AFTER HOURS <font size=“2”>(US, 1986)</font>; Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE <font size=“2”>(US, 2001)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BEING MARY TYLER MOORE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Queen of 1970s TV ran a progressive entertainment empire with MTM Productions.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE PIGEON TUNNEL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The former spy and spy novelist ‘John le Carré’ is as cagey as his works during Errol Morris’ interviews.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE LEAGUE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The breadth and impact of the Negro Leagues, before integration.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LYNCH/OZ</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Anthology chapters of filmmaker essays connecting THE WIZARD OF OZ to David Lynch’s work.</i></font><br />
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<small>▶ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>He was the King Of Rock’n’Roll, and he was first to tell you himself.</i></font><br />
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<small>▶ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/02/little-richard-voice-of-rock-and-his.html" target="_blank">LITTLE RICHARD: The Voice of Rock and His Disciples</a>, with 2 piano-smashing Music Players!</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SQUARING THE CIRCLE: The Story Of Hipgnosis</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The design firm Hipgnosis created many of the best Rock album covers of all time.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>FIGHT THE POWER: How Hip-Hop Changed The World</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Chuck D <small>(Public Enemy)</small> traces the roots and branches of Rap.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Planet Sex</b></i>, with Cara Delevingne</font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The model/actor tours many aspects of sensual expression around the world.</i></font><br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE DAILY SHOW</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Happy Valley</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A perfect end to the trilogy.</i></font><br />
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Sally Wainwright (<small><i>'Last Tango In Halifax', 'Gentleman Jack'</i></small>) played for the long and won. After setting everything up in Season 1 <small>(2014)</small> and Season 2 <small>(2016)</small>, the creator/showrunner waited seven years for one key actor to get older before finishing the family saga with Season 3.<br />
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The total result is an 18-episode novel in three parts hailed by everyone. The supurb Sarah Lancashire returns as the haunted cop who is desperate to protect her family from the criminal who destroyed her daughter. Under unrelenting pressure, will the strain make her cross the line?<br />
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Note: HBO/Warners should take the worldwide acclaim for this finale as the cue to let Wainwright finish <i>'Gentleman Jack'</i>, as well.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
KES <font size=“2”>(England, 1969)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Blue Lights</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Belfast cops are stymied in preventing local crimes by a covert agenda from intelligence operatives.</i></font><br />
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Three novice officers negotiate their way daily through a minefield of jaded vets, officer in-fighting, hostile citizens, post-IRA fallout, local thugs, old biases, and red tape. Funny, edgy, relevant, and ultimately moving.<br />
And Richard Dormer’s (<i>'Game Of Thrones', 'Fortitude'</i>) best role, to boot.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>'Hill Street Blues'</i> <font size=“2”>(1981-’87)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Slow Horses</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The MI5 castaways at Slough House are forced to protect MI5 from itself.</i></font><br />
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Each season (based on Mick Herron’s book series) is great, but this may be the best yet. Gary Oldman clearly enjoys himself as the rude wretch who runs the rejects, a group proving the match of anything thrown at them. Sope Dirisu is mesmerizing here as the enigmatic catalyst for an espionage agency war.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Fargo</b></i></font> 5 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>She has a new life as a new person. She won’t be taken back.</i></font><br />
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The Coen Brothers film FARGO <small>(1996)</small> has been expanded out in anthology form by Noah Hawley (<i>‘Legion’</i>), each season with a different cast and era.<br />
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Set in 2019, this season is a barbed referendum on modern American Fascism, from the dead-hearted rich (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to the cowboy survivalists (Jon Hamm). The ringer caught between is a nebbish suburban Mom (Juno Temple) whom no one should have crossed.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Poker Face</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Columbo redux.</i></font><br />
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Natasha Lyonne (<i>‘Russian Doll’</i>) is on a roll. Her loving tribute to ‘70s HowCatchEms brings in modern culture, guff, and edge. Imagine Stevie Nicks in a '69 Barracuda on the lam cross-country, solving like Columbo and mouthing like Jackie Mason. Get in the car!<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Perry Mason</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The gritty origin years of the world’s most famous lawyer.</i></font><br />
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Taking all its tone and style from CHINATOWN <small>(1974)</small>, this edgy Noir wraps up its finale season.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Lucky Hank</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The jaded English professor may be the logjam of his own life, and those around him.</i></font><br />
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After <i>'Better Call Saul'</i>, Bob Odenkirk cruised right into his latest win with this adaptation of Russo’s book <i>"Straight Man"</i> <small>(1997)</small>. In this small campus satire, Hank thinks everyone is holding him back, but is the last to know it’s the reverse.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Dark Winds</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Leaphorn and Chee investigate crimes on the Navaho reservation.</i></font><br />
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The early-‘70s was a crisis crux for Native Americans: emboldened by the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement (AIM) stood up against land theft, until the FBI were sent in to destroy them.<br />
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This show adapts the popular mystery books by Tony Hillerman. It is always good but it could be great. The creators should try harder, using that critical revolutionary era to critique how the Feds, land barons, and oppression are still ongoing. That was the peak time and this is the prime time again to say it. Still, it’s a wonderful cast -especially Jessica Matten, Deanna Tauschi Allison, the return of '70s stalwart A Martinez, and the ubiquitous Zahn McClarnon- and every representation of tribal life is invaluable.<br />
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Note: They should also be scoring it with the boldly activist songs of the Native American Rock band <b>Redbone</b>.: <i>"Judgment Day"</i>, <i>"Bad News Ain't No News At All"</i>, <i>"Niji Trance"</i>, <i>"Jerico"</i>, <i>"Power (Prelude To A Means)"</i>, etc.
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Lupin</b></i></font> <small>(France)</small> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Inspired by the literary bandit, a modern man pulls heists for justice.</i></font><br />
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Lupin was a gentleman thief in early-1900s short stories. This breezy series’ main allure is the elaborate heists the lead pulls off throughout modern Paris.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>A Murder At The End Of The World</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The crime author at an Iceland retreat believes a guest’s death is murder.</i></font><br />
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Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (creators of the late and lamented <i>'The Oa'</i>) return to craft a Christie Whodunit for the cyber age. Emma Corin (<i>'The Crown'</i>, LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER) is enthralling as the young hacker trying to thread present dangers, with an intense backstory catching up from behind.<br />
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Mann’s MANHUNTER <font size=“2”>(1986)</font>; Johnson’s GLASS ONION <font size=“2”>(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Daisy Jones And The Six</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The alternate universe of Stevie and Lindsey.</i></font><br />
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The English blues band Fleetwood Mac reinvented itself to spectacular success in 1975 bringing in an American couple, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. By 1977, the fissuring of both couples in the band perversely fueled their zillion-selling masterpiece, <i>"Rumours"</i>.<br />
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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s fiction book <i>"Daisy Jones And The Six"</i> <small>(2019)</small> told an elseworlds take based on this situation. The TV mini-series pulls off the impossible: an astoundingly on-point recreation of the 1970s Rock scene, and a crack soundtrack album that stands startlingly well near <i>"Rumours"</i> itself. Riley Keough (as close to Rock royalty as one can get) and Sam Claflin are entrancing as the couple, and fine singers to boot.<br />
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Fleetwood Mac, <i>"Fleetwood Mac"</i> <font size=“2”>(1975)</font>; Fleetwood Mac, <i>"Rumours"</i> <font size=“2”>(1977)</font>; Fleetwood Mac, <i>"Tusk"</i> <font size=“2”>(1979)</font>; ‘Daisy And The Six’ / (Blake Mills), <i>"Aurora"</i> <font size=“2”>(2023)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Mrs. Davis</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The mysterious nun takes on the AI running the world.</i></font><br />
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Creators Damon Lindelof (<i>'Lost', 'The Leftovers'</i>) and Tara Hernandez don’t even care what you think, they’re going to throw every crazy idea out there and you’ll like it. This surreal screwball comedy upends clerics, spies, revolts, secret societies, rodeos, relics, Excalibur, and big bads faster than you can say it’s a mad mad mad mad.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>American Born Chinese</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The new kid at school says "Monkey King" legends are true.</i></font><br />
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Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel gets the deluxe screen treatment, including the three lead actors of the Oscar-winning EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE no less (in separated roles). This show does an admirable job translating the satiric cartoons of the book into believable live-action characters portrayed with healthy sensitivity and representation. It’s also full of action and very funny.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Great Expectations</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An alternate reading of the Dickens classic.</i></font><br />
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This revision of the journey of Pip may not go all the ways that you expect. The omnipresent Olivia Colman revels in her gothic spin on the ruined Miss Havisham.<br />
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Lean's GREAT EXPECTATIONS <font size=“2”>(England, 1946)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Lessons In Chemistry</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The brilliant chemist is shut out of academia, so she subverts the system through a popular cooking show.</i></font><br />
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That’s remarkably parallel to how the general media shut down THE MARVELS at every turn, and yet Brie Larson still triumphed with <i>"Lessons In Chemistry"</i>. It’s as if smart feminist craft wins anyway by any means necessary.<br />
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Bonnie Garmus’ 2022 book was fast-tracked into a mini-series adaptation, and couldn’t be any more timely with its timeless takedown of misogyny, anti-intellectualism, racism, and the indifferent who allow it. (It also references <i>"Great Expectations"</i> a lot.) It is hilarious and heartbreaking by constant turns, and crucial to watch. Ingest heartily.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Funny Woman</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1964 Swinging London, the aspiring movie actor breaks out in a TV sitcom.</i></font><br />
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Gemma Arterton is always great regardless. Flipping off the mainstream, she chooses indie projects that mean something to her. This light satire of sexism in Mod-era television unleashes her madcap side, hamming it up like a cross between Lucille Ball and Rita Tushingham.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Archie Leach looks back on his life as the world’s greatest leading man.</i></font><br />
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Jason Isaacs makes a surprisingly canny Cary Grant, at times simply becoming him. This film, based on his wife Dyan Cannon’s memoir, is notably sensitive to the harsh circumstances that forged Archie’s path to inventing his celluloid self, the conflicting anxieties that followed, and the transforming revelation later.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Last Of Us</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>After a pandemic ravages the world, a man and teen girl brave the dystopian badlands.</i></font><br />
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The 2013 video game earned a cult following and wide acclaim for its stirring characters, considered narrative, and mature tone. The live-action adaptation minds and mines all of this with absolute fidelity, pleasing the hardcores and the newcomers alike.<br />
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This could have been another <i>'Walking Dead'</i> retread. Instead, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s survival trek across ruined American cities and frontiers, while fending against a weaponized nature, unrolls like a catharsis for our post-pandemic shock.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Silo</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The underground silo complex is humanity’s last hope, but the Sheriff uncovers something wrong.</i></font><br />
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Adapting the first book of Howley’s <i>"Silo"</i> trilogy, this hypnotic mystery series only gets greater and deeper as it goes. Rebecca Ferguson is reliably terrific as the lower-depths toiler sorting her path through the corruption and classism of an all-star cast, learning far more than she should about the greater secrets of the silo itself.<br />
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OUTLAND <font size=“2”>(1981)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Picard</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A rousing reunion and finale for the ‘Next Generation’ crew.</i></font><br />
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The <i>'Next Generation'</i> crew went out pretty well with the underrated NEMESIS film <small>(2002)</small>. They are served much better here, in which all the build of Picard’s solo adventures dovetail into a full-bore reiteration of all the best aspects of his original posse.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Strange New Worlds</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The innovative prequel to 'The Original Series'.</i></font><br />
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Let’s cut the pretense. SNW pitches itself as a prequel, but all of us know that it is really a modern reimagining of <i>'The Original Series'</i> with god budgets and movie scope. (It’s the Kelvin reboot films without the drawn-out delays.) And that’s perfectly fine.<br />
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Most of us waited all our lives for just such a thing, and no one is complaining. So as the series continues to expand what could have happened in the late-’60s with what is capable now, I drop all concerns about visual continuity and poached firsts and luxuriate in the sparkling scripts, character build, longer lengths, stadium sets, and smorgasbord of genre styles. A cross-over with the animated <i>'Lower Decks'</i>?! A Musical sing-along?! All hail yeah!<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Lower Decks</b></i></font> 4 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The most subversive while reverential series.</i></font><br />
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The crew are essentially fans of ‘Star Trek’ who actually live in it. No Trek spoof over the years has done as much to challenge every aspect of the shows with such rude hilarity, or any tribute done as much to revere those very things. Always heady while heedless.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Mandalorian</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Perhaps 'The Mandalorians' now, as all ragtag factions come together to reclaim their lost world.</i></font><br />
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The series began as Jon Favreau’s take on Space Westerns with a lone ranger. It has evolved into Dave Filoni’s animateds resolving their narratives in live-action. (Cue factionalist debates in 3-2-1...) These are both interesting, but there’s a feeling that the hero got forgotten in his own show. Still worth every minute.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Ahsoka</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The life-action follow-up to the animated ‘Rebels’, led by jedi Ahsoka Tano.</i></font><br />
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Filoni’s maturity as a live-action filmmaker came into focus here. Its initial steadiness hits stride in the middle, becoming a stately epic exploring (literally) places that STAR WARS has never gone before: far space, the origin of The Force, and the afterlife. The live cast are perfect realizations of their animated characters, and Rosario Dawson is sublime as the adult Ahsoka.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR WARS: Visions</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An animated anthology made by international creators.</i></font><br />
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The first season of non-canon experimental shorts was created by various Japanese animation houses. This season expands globally to include chapters from Spain, Ireland, Chile, England (Aardman), South Korea, France, India, Japan, and South Africa/Ireland. The final one, <i>"Aau’s Song"</i>, about the adorable bunny hero on her quest, is so brilliant it should be an ongoing series.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Black Mirror</b></i></font> 6<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Dark allegories sway more toward black comedy.</i></font><br />
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After the bleakness of recent years, Charlie Brooker had to take a break from his cautionary anthology. He returned with a lighter lilt that lets the series expand in tone and impact.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The Wheel Of Time</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The quest to unleash/avert The Dragon Reborn reaches a critical peak.</i></font><br />
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The first season interpreted Robert Jordan’s Fantasy book series on an impressively grand scale, with sweeping vistas, progressive casting, and political schemes. (Then <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/lord-of-rings-rings-of-power-one-rules.html" target="_blank">THE RINGS OF POWER</a> came out, crushing all with its unmatchable magnitude.)<br />
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But the previous was only place-setting. The second season rallies everything into tight focus with complex intrigue, brutal plot turns, and a truly epic and pulse-pounding season finale.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Outlander</b></i></font> 7.1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Ominous portent hangs over both the past and the future for the Frasiers.</i></font><br />
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Evidently the seventh book was so big that they are splitting it into two seasons’ worth of episodes. Maybe the previous season was too truncated, maybe this will be too long, maybe I should shut up and just enjoy a great show doing fine work.<br />
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That said, this quietly Fantasy show set now in the dawn of the American Revolution always plays to its strengths: a progressive outlook on history built on character, suspense, and compassion. Also fights and lust.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Good Omens</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The angel and the demon work together to fend off Hell’s invasion.</i></font><br />
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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett meant to do a sequel to their 1990 book. Now that plot will become the third and final season for the live-action series, with this second as a middle hinge setting it up. If this affair feels more like a budget interlude, perhaps a <i>'Doctor Who'</i>-lloween special, that’s okay: the chemistry of stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen is contagious, and this Beelzebub hubbub is a joyride with Jon Hamm at his funniest.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Doctor Who</b></i></font>, 4 Specials<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>3 Anniversary Specials, plus a Christmas Special.</i></font><br />
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For the 60th Anniversary of <i>'DOCTOR WHO'</i>, the new/original showrunner Russel T. Davies pulled a stunt. While we were expecting the transition from one Doctor to another, we suddenly received the return of a previous -the dervish David Tennant- for three mysterious episodes. In the Dickensian Christmas special that followed, the actual new Doctor debuted in the charismatic form of Ncuti Gatwa. Rules were shattered and minds were blown.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Pantheon</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The cyberpunk thrill ride goes for absolute glory at the end.</i></font><br />
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This series was already a first-rate cyber-thriller picking up the baton from THE MATRIX. But then...<br />
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The last two finale episodes are like a third season compressed, pulling off impossibly ambitious leaps forward, and ending on a grand scale that would make <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</a> proud.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Blue Eye Samurai</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A mysterious orphan paves a trail of vengeance.</i></font><br />
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Mizu arrives in 17th century Edo with a sword forged from a fallen asteroid and a list of names to eradicate.<br />
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Amber Noizumi and Michael Green’s revenge saga stuns on every level: the rich character story; the elaborate action sequences (and overboard hyper-violence); the nuanced voice cast (Maya Erskine, Kenneth Branagh, George Takei); and, most of all, the exquisite craft of it all, from Kurosawa framing to character design to the painterly style.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
COME DRINK WITH ME <font size=“2”>(Hong Kong, 1966)</font>; LADY SNOWBLOOD <font size=“2”>(Japan, 1973)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Scavengers Reign</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Survivors of a spaceship disaster try to withstand a surreal paradise world.</i></font><br />
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If Moebius had done his own animated story, it would be this. It may be the most imaginative feast frame-to-frame that you’re likely to see this year.<br />
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The mysterious story is compelling enough, as separate castaways struggle for survival and rescue. But the world itself is the star, a limitless rotation of astonishing landscapes, mind-melting creatures, and unsettling bizarrities. Come for the story, stay for the shock.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Adventure Time: Fionna And Cake</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>At last, the origin and full spotlight on the new AT stars.</i></font><br />
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The annual appearances of the alternate heroes Fionna and Cake on the original series were treated as a fanfic daydream. Except that all of us wanted the real thing.<br />
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The new show completely reinvents the old show in length, depth, and visual style. It is a bold leap forward in time, character, and possibility. And Fionna and Cake are real. The best just got better.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Hilda</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale season of Trolberg’s restless explorer.</i></font><br />
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Based on Luke Pearson’s illustrated books, the adventure comedy brings everything full circle, with family connections, mysteries solved, and a truly surprising secret origin. A classic show for all-ages.<br />
<small>Note: The standalone feature film, <i>HILDA And The Mountain King</i> <font size=“2”>(2021)</font>, is meant to be watched between seasons 2 and 3.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Scott Pilgrim Takes Over</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An all-new alternate story rethinking the graphic novels.</i></font><br />
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<font color="008ae6"><b>1</b> <font size="3">•</font></font> An alternate universe telling, done in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s actual art style.<br />
<font color="008ae6"><b>2</b> <font size="3">•</font></font> The series reunites the entire cast of the 2010 live-action film to reprise all of their characters’ voices!<br />
<font color="008ae6"><b>3</b> <font size="3">•</font></font> Surprises and metatext galore.<br />
<font color="008ae6"><b>4</b> <font size="3">•</font></font> <i>1-2-3-4!</i><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SCOTT PILGRIM Vs. THE WORLD <font size=“2”>(2010)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Futurama</b></i></font> 8.1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Back! For the second time! Halfway!</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Loki</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An astounding finale season that literally redefines everything.</i></font><br />
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In the Marvel comics, Loki is a prismatic personality who continually shifts forms and outlooks (akin to Coyote from Native American tales). Taking that cue, this sharp series uses the Multiverse to show the trickster other ways of seeing and being. How he ultimately chooses to express is as game-changing as it is spectacular.<br />
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This show can’t be hailed enough for its excellent craft. It is a direct heir to Noah Hawley's revolutionary <i>'Legion'</i> series, more than other MCU shows: it is a perfect balance of style and substance, with its Kubrick cinematography, Moebius sets, literate scripts and whipsmart repartee, global cast, and gleeful perversity. (Special shout-out to Ke Huy Quan this season.)<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>'Legion'</i> <font size=“2”>(2017-’19)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>What If…?</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What if key events in the MCU movies had gone a very different path?</i></font><br />
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Besides showing us the windows into the Multiverse, the series introduces diverse new characters who could become important in the live-action productions. This season brought us the new character Kahhori, a Mohawk sorcerer voiced by Devery Jacobs (<i>'Reservation Dogs', 'Echo'</i>).<br />
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There is also the unparalleled craft. The vehicle designs alone in the Sakaar drag race <small>(S02 /E04)</small> are so intricate and elaborate that it took an extra season to finish the episode. Plus there’s the august array of voice stars (Cate Blanchett! Rachel Weisz!).<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</b></i></font> 5 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale season of the smartest and most ambitious television comedy of all.</i></font><br />
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You might find shows that have moments as grand as a tentpole musical, whacky as a burlesque, poignant as a stage play, conscious as the headlines, visually fluid as a sky drone, snappier than a Paris runway. But they wouldn’t all be the same one doing these at the same time.<br />
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From start to finish, <i>'Mrs. Maisel'</i> was everything and more, and always the best. Thank you to showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino and stars Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein for setting the bat too high for everyone else.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Lenny Bruce; Joan Rivers; Neil Simon;<br />
'I Love Lucy' <font size=“2”>(1951-’57)</font>; AN AMERICAN IN PARIS <font size=“2”>(1951)</font>; MY FAVORITE YEAR <font size=“2”>(1982)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>Reservation Dogs</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale of the young troupe on the Rez.</i></font><br />
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Showrunner Sterlin Harjo and an all-Indigenous team brought us the best dramedy/anthology/freeform Native American breakthrough yet made. Always funny, acute, flabbergasting, insightful. And a sterling cast, from reverend vets (Graham Green, Wes Studi, Gary Farmer, Ethan Hawke) to beaming tenderfoots (D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, Lane Factor).<br />
And Lily Gladstone too, before everyone heard of her.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>I’m A Virgo</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two guardians hide their 13-foot-tall son from a hostile world.</i></font><br />
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Boots Riley (of the Conscious Rap band, The Coup) surprised everyone with his breakthrough comedy film SORRY TO BOTHER YOU <small>(2018)</small>, a cult smash with a decided bent.<br />
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That was prelude. This aspirant satire takes on everything head-on at turbo peel: Oakland, absurdism, superheroes, bias, and Capitalism itself. You’ll laugh, you’ll think.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Only Murders In The Building</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Bigger in scope, yet focused to the nth.</i></font><br />
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It starts with a death at a packed Broadway auditorium and just gets grander from there, even as it gets more sinuous and inward. Paul Rudd cheerfully chews the drapes as a jerk and Meryl Streep unwinds like a puzzle box. So much win.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Muppets Mayhem</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>After all these years, Dr. Teeth And The Electric Mayhem try to make their first album.</i></font><br />
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The fun of this show is how it gets everything right: Muppets; a love of all Rock history; a parody of behind-the-music docs; a tribute to The Beatles a la <i>'Get Back'</i>; a saaviness to adapt/spoof current trends. Lilly Singh shines as the upbeat manager and human foil.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
'The Muppet Show' <font size=“2”>(1976-’81)</font>; THE MUPPET MOVIE <font size=“2”>(1979)</font>; 'The Jim Henson Hour' <font size=“2”>(1989)</font></small><br />
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<center><font color="ffffff"><h1><b>B E S T<br />
R E S T O R A T I O N</b></h1></font></center><br />
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Classic Films are the timeless canon from which all movies expand. They are essential to be seen, and should be enjoyed at their best.<br />
Here are some of the most important film restorations released on disc this year.<br />
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<center><small>IMITATION OF LIFE;<br />
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN;<br />
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THREE AGES</b></i></font><br />
<small>(US, 1923)</small><br />
Buster Keaton / Edward F. Cline • <i>(Masters Of Cinema)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>PANDORA’S BOX </b></i></font> <small>(Germany, 1929)</small><br />
G.W. Pabst • <i>(Masters Of Cinema)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers: <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>FREAKS</b></i></font> <small>(1932)</small> / <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE UNKNOWN</b></i></font> <small>(1927)</small> / <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE MYSTIC</b></i></font> <small>(1925)</small><br />
Tod Browning • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>IMITATION OF LIFE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1934)</small><br />
John M. Stahl • 4k Blu-Ray <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1935)</small><br />
James Whale • 4k <i>(Distributor)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1937)</small><br />
six Directors • 4k <i>(Disney)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE RULES OF THE GAME</b></i></font> <small>(France, 1939)</small><br />
Jean Renoir • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<center><small>THE MALTESE FALCON;<br />
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI;<br />
ROPE</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE MALTESE FALCON</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1941)</small><br />
John Huston • 4k UHD <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>MILDRED PIERCE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1945)</small><br />
Michael Curtiz • 4k Blu-Ray <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1945)</small><br />
Orson Welles • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>ROPE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1948)</small><br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4k UHD <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<center><small>ROMAN HOLIDAY;<br />
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS;<br />
THE RED BALLOON</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>ROMAN HOLIDAY</b></i></font> <small>(US/Italy, 1953)</small><br />
William Wyler • 4k UHD <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE WAR OF THE WORLDS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1953)</small><br />
Byron Haskin • 4k UHD <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1955)</small><br />
Charles Laughton • 4k UHD <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1955)</small><br />
Nicholas Ray • 4k UHD <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1956)</small><br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE RED BALLOON + Five Other Shorts</b></i></font> <small>(France, 1956)</small><br />
Albert Lamorisse • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE SEVENTH SEAL</b></i></font> <small>(Sweden, 1957)</small><br />
Ingmar Bergman • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<center><small>THE TRIAL;<br />
COOL HAND LUKE;<br />
ROMEO AND JULIET</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1960)</small><br />
John Sturges • 4k <i>(Shout! Select)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE TRIAL</b></i></font> <small>(France/Italy/Yugoslavia, 1962)</small><br />
Orson Welles • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>COOL HAND LUKE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1967)</small><br />
Stuart Rosenberg • 4k UHD <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>ROMEO AND JULIET</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1968)</small><br />
Franco Zeffirelli • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>TEOREMA</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1968)</small><br />
Piero Paulo Pasolini • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>ROSEMARY’S BABY</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1968)</small><br />
Roman Polanski • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<center><small>DUEL;<br />
AMERICAN GRAFFITI;<br />
SERPICO</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>WALKABOUT</b></i></font> <small>(England/Australia, 1971)</small><br />
Nicolas Roeg • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE LAST PICTURE SHOW + Texasville</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1971)</small><br />
Peter Bogdanovich • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>DUEL</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1971)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE</b></i></font> <small>(France, 1972)</small><br />
Luis Bunuel • 4k <i>(Studio Canal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE STING</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1973)</small><br />
George Roy Hill • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>AMERICAN GRAFFITI</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1973)</small><br />
George Lucas • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>SERPICO</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1973)</small><br />
Sidnet Lumet • 4k UHD <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>MEAN STREETS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1973)</small><br />
Martin Scorsese • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<center><small>ENTER THE DRAGON;<br />
THE EXORCIST;<br />
3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>ENTER THE DRAGON</b></i></font> <small>(Hong Kong, 1973)</small><br />
Robert Clouse • 4k Blu-Ray <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE EXORCIST</b></i></font> 50th Anniversary Edition <small>(US, 1973)</small><br />
William Friedkin • 4k <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>DON’T LOOK NOW</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1973)</small><br />
Nicolas Roeg • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1975)</small><br />
Sidney Pollack • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>MARATHON MAN</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1976)</small><br />
John Schlesinger • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1976)</small><br />
Nicolas Roeg • 4k Blu-Ray <i>(Lionsgate)</i><br />
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<center><small>RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK;<br />
THE COLOR PURPLE;<br />
WINGS OF DESIRE</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>GLORIA</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1980)</small><br />
John Cassavetes • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
<br />
<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>TIME BANDITS</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1981)</small><br />
Terry Gilliam • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
<br />
<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1981)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k UHD <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>AFTER HOURS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1985)</small><br />
Martin Scorsese • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>WITNESS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1985)</small><br />
Peter Wier • 4k <i>(Arrow Video)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE COLOR PURPLE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1985)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k <i>(Warner)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>WINGS OF DESIRE</b></i></font> <small>(W. Germany, 1987)</small><br />
Wim Wenders • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE PRINCESS BRIDE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1987)</small><br />
Rob Reiner • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>LA BAMBA</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1987)</small><br />
Luis Valdez • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1987)</small><br />
Akira Kurosawa • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<center><small>JFK;<br />
SCHINDLER’S LIST;<br />
INLAND EMPIRE</small></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>Akira Kurosawa’s DREAMS</b></i></font> <small>(Japan, 1990)</small><br />
Director • 4k <i>(Distributor)</i><br />
<br />
<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THELMA AND LOUISE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1991)</small><br />
Ridley Scott • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>JFK</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1991)</small><br />
Oliver Stone • 4k <i>(Shout! Factory)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>SCHINDLER’S LIST</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1993)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>FARGO</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1996)</small><br />
Coen Brothers • 4k <i>(Shout! Factory)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE OTHERS</b></i></font> <small>(UK/Chile, 2001)</small><br />
Alejandro Amenabar • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
<br />
<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>INLAND EMPIRE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 2006)</small><br />
David Lynch • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>CLOVERFIELD</b></i></font> <small>(US, 2008)</small><br />
Matt Reeves • 4k Blu-Ray <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 2016)</small><br />
Travis Knight • 4k UHD <i>(Shout! Factory)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>NO BEARS</b></i></font> <small>(Iran, 2022)</small><br />
Jafar Panahi • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>Del Toro’s PINOCCHIO</b></i></font> <small>(US, 2022)</small><br />
Guilermo Del Toro • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font color="ffffff"><center><h1><b>C R I T E R I O N</b></h1></center></font><br />
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<center><small><i>HIS GIRL FRIDAY</i> (1940);<br />
<i>CITIZEN KANE</i> (1941);<br />
<i>BLACK NARCISSUS</i> (1947);<br />
<i>LATE SPRING</i> (1949);<br />
<i>GATE OF HELL</i> (1953);<br />
<i>HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR</i> (1959)</small></center><br />
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Netflix is like the flashy dance club of streaming entertainment, but <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/"target=_blank>The Criterion Channel</a> is for the deep cuts of real culture.<br />
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It needs to be said. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu impress with their glossy New Now, and they do have many current gems, but they generally lack heritage classics. All width and little depth. That's all fun, but how long can you chew gum for supper? At some point, when you crave for a more well-rounded diet of substance that sustains your mind and soul, there's only one place to get serious about learning full-quality cinema... The Canon Of Great Films That Actually Matter.<br />
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<center><small><i>KWAIDAN</i> (1964);<br />
<i>IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT</i> (1967);<br />
<i>THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES</i> (1969);<br />
<i>WOODSTOCK</i> (1970);<br />
<i>TOUKI BOUKI</i> (1973);<br />
<i>WATERSHIP DOWN</i> (1978)</small></center><br />
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While other streaming sites are High School, <b>The Criterion Channel</b> is Oxford.<br />
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<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/" target="_blank">The Criterion Channel</a> film-streaming site is the best cinema from around the world and every decade since film began, along with new indie films and acclaimed documentaries. Plus, Criterion is the vanguard in restoring great films to a precision standard of picture and sound that matches the present. Restored classics now look better than the day they were struck. If you've watched Mark Cousins' <i>"The Story of Film: An Odyssey"</i> documentary series as a primer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey"target=_blank>></a>, this site is the true library to expand your enjoyment into the most essential film classics. Every fine film we appreciate now branches directly from the roots of these timeless works of cinematic art, whether it's a romance, period piece, character drama, guerilla handheld, Rock film, style fest, rebel indie, or avant garde. Get the whole picture.<br />
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<center><small><i>THIS IS SPINAL TAP</i> (1984);<br />
<i>BLUE VELVET</i> (1986);<br />
<i>BEFORE SUNRISE</i> (1995);<br />
<i>INFERNAL AFFAIRS</i> (2002);<br />
<i>THE TREE OF LIFE</i> (2011);<br />
<i>NEPTUNE FROST</i> (2021)</small></center><br />
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<small>(also explore: <a href="https://www.fandor.com/"target=_blank>Fandor</a>, <a href="https://filmatique.com/"target=_blank>Filmatique</a>, <a href="https://mubi.com/"target=_blank>Mubi</a>, <a href="https://www.tcm.com/"target=_blank>Turner Classic Movies</a>, <a href="https://www.kanopy.com/"target=_blank>Kanopy</a>, <a href="https://filmhub.com/"target=_blank>Filmhub</a>, <a href="http://www.indiepixunlimited.com/"target=_blank>IndiePix</a>, <a href="https://www.indieflix.com/"target=_blank>IndieFlix</a>, <a href="https://www.ovid.tv/"target=_blank>Ovid</a>, <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/"target=_blank>BFI Player</a> (UK), <a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline"target=_blank>OpenCulture</a>)</small><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-music-2018-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2018</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-comics-2018.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2018</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2018/01/best-movies-tv-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2017</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-music-2017-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2017</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2017</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-movies-tv-2016.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2016</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-music-2016-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2016</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2016.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2016</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-movies-tv-2015.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2015</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-music-2015-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2015</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2015.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2015</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-movies-tv-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-music-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2014</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-movies-tv-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-music-2013-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2013</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-movies-tv-2012.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2012</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-music-2012-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2012</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-comix-2012.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2012</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-movies-tv-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-comix-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2011</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-movies-and-tv-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-music-2000-2010-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-comix-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2000-2010</a><br />
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<br />
• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
<br />
• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
<br />
• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/lord-of-rings-rings-of-power-one-rules.html" target="_blank">LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power ⬤ The One Rules All</a><br />
<br />
<br />
• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<center><i>"Cut!</i></center><br />
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<hr />Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-29811874075203757362023-12-31T16:52:00.000-08:002024-01-01T17:00:31.954-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR! with Happy New Years Songs Playlist<br />
<center>Quality is timeless.<br />
<br />
Make a better future.</center><br />
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<center>Count your blessings,<br />
every year.</center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>:<br />
Rock'n'Soul Playlist,<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
<center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6e3tawHRYVrKThqLKcUyZM" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><br />
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A history of NEW YEARS songs from the 1950s to today, in chronological order.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="00cc00">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf">Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="00cc00">Blues!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff9900">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="#ff6600">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="#ff9900">Country!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#cc66ff">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="#9933ff">Psychedelic!</font> <font COLOR="#cc66ff">Funk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ccff66">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="#ffff66">Reggae!</font> <font COLOR="#ccff66">Punk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff66cc">New Wave!</font> <font COLOR="#ff3399">HipHop!</font> <font COLOR="#ff66cc">Electro!</font></b><br />
and more!</center><br />
<br />
© <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com"target=_blank>Tym Stevens</a><br />
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See Also:<br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/10/halloween-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HALLOWEEN!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
<br />
• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/dia-de-los-muertos-rock-music-player.html”target=_blank>DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A Rock Music Player</a><br />
<br />
• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/thanksgiving-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>THANKSGIVING!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
<br />
• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-holidays-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
<br />
<br />
• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html”target=_blank>The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-2995744479486422432023-12-29T23:16:00.000-08:002024-02-04T14:00:24.618-08:00BEST MUSIC: 2023, with Music Players<br />
<center><i><font size="5">With <font color="ffffff">4</font> <font color="FFFF66">Music Players</font>!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><font size="5">T H E D A R T S</font></center><br />
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<center><h2><font color="FFFF66">ALL THE</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">REAL MUSIC</font><font color="FFFF66">!</font></h2></center><br />
<center><font color="ccff33"><i>Let's fast bypass all those drone-clone<br />
'<b>Best Music</b>' lists that taste like<br />
Ones and Zeros!</i></font><br />
<br />
<font color="FFFF00"><i>These jams will interject your mindset<br />
and highjack your headset!</i></font></center><br />
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<a name="CL">C H A P T E R L I N K S :</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">BEST ALBUMS: 2023</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">COOL SONGS: 2023</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">COVER SONGS 2023</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">BEST REISSUES: 2023</a><br />
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<center><small>1) Black Pumas; Dream Wife; Tami Neilson;<br />
2) Chai; The Bitchwaves; De La Soul;<br />
3) The Beatles; Pink Floyd; Betty Davis</small></center><br />
<center><small>Graphic by <a href="https://www.tymstevens.com/" target="_blank">Tym Stevens</a><br />
Bigger <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/189500179/BEST-MUSIC-2023" target="_blank">here</a>.</small></center><br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>B E S T</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">N E W</font><br />
<font color="FFFF00">A L B U M S :</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">2 0 2 3</font></h1></center><br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">BEST ALBUMS 2023<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
<center><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2bvfhRJh03V7MOH1uORwIH?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="380" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture"></iframe></center>
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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Black Pumas</b>, <i>"Chronicles Of A Diamond"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Smokey Soul.</font><br />
Intimate as a confessional, warm as a friendship, sultry as the right time.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Al Green, Greyhounds, Curtis Harding)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Altin Gün</b>, <i>"Aşk"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Turkish Psyche.</font><br />
With a complexity and facility that Progs would envy, these slinky trips move your hips and mold your mind.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Erkin Koray, Goat, Khruangbin)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Tami Neilson</b>, <i>"Kingmaker: Live with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Cinematic Country and Soul.</font><br />
Tami choirs out feminist Country and soulful Blues like she's Aretha at the Met. Here, she's actually backed by a full symphonic support team.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Patsy Cline, Hannah Williams, Bonnie Whitmore)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Kills</b>, <i>"God Games"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Art Garage.</font><br />
Starting out as punks with a turbo-Blues sneer, Alison and Jamie have expanded into a new textural sophistication without losing their edge.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The White Stripes, The Dead Weather)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>JJ Grey And Mofro</b>, <i>"Country Ghetto"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Country Funk.</font><br />
Swampy stompers that shake the dust out the door.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Tony Joe White, The Meters, North Mississippi Allstars)</small><br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Shana Cleveland</b>, <i>"Manzanita"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Ethereal troubadour.</font><br />
Taking a breather from fronting the acclaimed surf band La Luz, Shana serenades us with silky Folk.<br />
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<small>(see also: Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, Lael Neale)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Olivia Jean</b>, <i>"Raving Ghost"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Garage Psyche.</font><br />
Galvanizing the Go-Go set with all the driven focus of a marathon runner.<br />
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<small>(see also: Thee Headcoatees, Fabienne Delsol, Breanna Barbara)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>'Daisy Jones and The Six'</b>, <i>"Aurora"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Timeless '70s Rock.</font><br />
How do you match Fleetwood Mac's <i>"Rumours"</i> <small>(1977)</small>? The TV miniseries <i>'Daisy Jones and The Six'</i> adapted from Reid's book, a fiction allegory based on that band's inner turmoil, gets startlingly close with soundtrack composer Blake Mills' Classic Rock cycle of warm songs, crack melodies, and tasteful riffs.<br />
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<small>(see also: Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, Beach House)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Greyhounds, T Bird And The Breaks</b>, <i>"Greybird"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Bluesy Soul.</font><br />
A perfect merging of two Roots bands, bringing all the feels in this friendly jam project.<br />
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<small>(see also: ZZ Top, Los Lobos, Black Pumas)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Miranda And The Beat</b>, <i>"Miranda And The Beat"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Spaghetti/Garage.</font><br />
Tough tunes with resonant clang, propelled by Miranda Zipse's big arias.<br />
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<small>(see also: Concrete Blonde, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Anna Calvi)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Colter Wall</b>, <i>"Little Songs"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">'70s-style Country and Western.</font><br />
Like the best 1971 C+W record you've never heard, with only the burnished wood and minus today's shellac.<br />
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<small>(see also: Waylon Jennings, Stoney Edwards, Paul Cauthen)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Jalen Ngonda</b>, <i>"Come Around And Love Me"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Classic Soul.</font><br />
All the beautiful croon of a soul in love.<br />
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<small>(see also: Marvin Gaye, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Kelly Finnigan)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Guadalupe Plata</b>, <i>"Guadalupe Plata 2023"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Mindscape Blues.</font><br />
Sin-ematic instrumentals of moody guitar and shadowy drums.<br />
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<small>(see also: Morphine, T-Model Ford, Abraxas)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Temples</b>, <i>"Exotico"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Electrodelic.</font><br />
Produced by Sean Lennon, the band's fourth exhibition concocts a perfect blend of dreamy psychedelia, propulsive rhythm, and Kosmische textures.<br />
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<small>(see also: Kula Shaker, Wand, Claypool Lennon Delirium)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Darts</b> <small>(U.S.)</small>, <i>"Snake Oil"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Garage Rock.</font><br />
Keys+singer Nicole Laurenne <small>(The Love Me Nots)</small> is the feiry core of this fluid and raging combo, throwing their wildest party yet.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Love Me Nots, Gore Gore Girls, The Courettes)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Stephen Sanchez</b>, <i>"Angel Face"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">DooWop Nouveau.</font><br />
Lustrous croons echoing through a twilight night.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, The Platters)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Oceees</b>/Thee Oh Sees, <i>"Intercepted Message"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Askew Wave.</font><br />
As if Devo possessed Helmet, these angular New Wave anthems strobe sharp as Math Rock. Put some pogo in your PoMo.<br />
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<small>(see also: Chrome, Devo, Primus, Coachwips)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Market Brass</b>, <i>"Hox"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Cinematic Afrobeat.</font><br />
Like the best 1973 Blacksplosion soundtrack that should have been made on celluloid and wax.<br />
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<small>(see also: Roy Budd, Lalo Schifrin, Antibalas, Here Lies Man)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Pearl Harts</b>, <i>"Love, Chaos"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">PostPunk Rrriot.</font><br />
Those girls think they're the queens of the neighborhood, and they are!<br />
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<small>(see also: Elastica, Garbage, The Kills)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Reverberations</b>, <i>"Half Remembered Dreams"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Psyche Pop.</font><br />
Everything perfect about a 1967 Baroque-adelic opus, freshly grown to pollinate your reveries.<br />
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<small>(see also: <i>"Sgt. Pepper"</i>, <i>"Odessey And Oracle"</i>, <i>"Bellybutton"</i>)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ironsides</b>, <i>"Changing Light"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Funky Soundtrack.</font><br />
Like a secret new Isaac Hayes Movement album slinking slyly from Heaven.<br />
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<small>(see also: Isaac Hayes, MFSB, El Michels Affair)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Private Lives</b>, <i>"Hit Record"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Spunky PostPunk.</font><br />
Upbeat and angular popcraft with energy and sass.<br />
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<small>(see also: Magazine, The Stripes, The Au Pairs)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Robert Finley</b>, <i>"Black Bayou"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Soulful Blues.</font><br />
Gutbuckets of grit and plenty of wit to get with.<br />
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<small>(see also: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Little Milton, Cedric Burnside)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Las Robertas</b>, <i>"Love Is The Answer"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Alt-Psyche.</font><br />
Alt-Rock barbs, Shoegaze Psyche-scapes, and Dream Pop vocals.<br />
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<small>(see also: My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Dum Dum Girls, La Luz)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Arcs</b>, <i>"Electrophonic Chronic"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Souladelic.</font><br />
Dan Auerbach <small>(The Black Keys)</small> and Leon Michels'<small> (El Michels Affair)</small> sophomore team-up, delayed by tragedy and a pandemic, floats in silky Philly chorales and mercurial moods.<br />
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<small>(see also: Van Morrison, The Chi-Lites, Alabama Shakes)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Sunny War</b>, <i>"Anarchist Gospel"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Anarcho Folk.</font><br />
Sunny brings special guests into her acoustic crusade for a fuller sound and tighter maturity, grilling the world and herself.<br />
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<small>(see also: Gillian Welch, Fantastic Negrito, Rhiannon Giddens)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Dream Wife</b>, <i>"Social Lubrication"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Postmodern Rock.</font><br />
Bracing Alt-Rock shoved into breakneck flight by Alice Go's mesmerizing guitar.<br />
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<small>(see also: X-Mal Deutschland, Sleater-Kinney, Boyskout, Be Your Own Pet)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Unloved</b>, <i>"Polychrome"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">TripHop Sorcery.</font><br />
Bounding back only a year after their abundant double-album, Unloved <small>(<i>'Killing Eve' scores</i>)</small> spoils us with more seductive hallucinations.<br />
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<small>(see also: Barry Adamson, Portishead, Kandle)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ron Sexsmith</b>, <i>"The Vivian Line"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff"> Pop Tunesmith.</font><br />
Ron excels at finely-observed disclosures and revelations couched in hummable melodies.<br />
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<small>(see also: Paul McCartney, Nick Lowe, The Smiths)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Deerhoof</b>, <i>"Miracle-Level"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Art Scronk.</font><br />
Perhaps the best and most self-reinventive ArtRock and AltPop band ever.<br />
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<small>(see also: tUnE-yArDs, Guerilla Toss, Xiu Xiu)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives</b>, <i>"Altitude"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Countrydelic.</font><br />
Not satisfied with just doing great Countrybilly and Bluegrass, Marty and accomplices do be doobyin' with Country Rock.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Byrds, Gram Parsons, The Jayhawks)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Adrian Younge, Tony Allen</b>, <i>"Tony Allen JID018"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Afrobeat 101.</font><br />
The drummer for Fela's Egypt 80, and original source of Afrobeat, schools our hips in how to sway.<br />
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<small>(see also: Fela, Talking Heads, African Head Charge)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Liquorice Experiment</b>, <i>"How Many Lies"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">British Re-Invasion.</font><br />
Beat Music with some Garage sneer putting the boho back in Soho.<br />
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<small>(see also: early Beatles, The Kinks, The Yardbirds)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Emma Wilson</b>, <i>"Memphis Calling"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Blues Soul.</font><br />
British by birth, while Memphis to the root. <br />
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<small>(see also: Motown, Stax, Chess)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bush Tetras</b>, <i>"They Live In My Head"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">PostPunk Rethunk.</font><br />
A reunion (after the passing of the drummer) sparking on all pistons. And Pat Place is still one of the most underrated guitarists in Rock history.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Gits, Free Kitten, Savages)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Jack Bartlett</b></font>; <font color="00ffbf"><i>"She Is Love"</i></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"If It Takes All Night"</i></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"We Know"</i></font> EPs<br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Solo Beatle.</font><br />
Some musicians are like a one-person Beatles: Nilsson, (Paul), Elliot Smith, Sam Phillips, and Jack Bartlett. His single <i>"We Know"</i> sounds like the perfect timeless B-Side to <i>"Now And Then"</i>.<br />
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<small>(see also: <i>"Help"</i>, <i>"Rubber Soul"</i>, <i>"Face To Face"</i>)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Frightwig</b>, <i>"We Need To Talk…"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Riot Womyn.</font><br />
From seeds to redwoods. You can't keep a young activist down, because they grow into seasoned revolutionaries for the long.<br />
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<small>(see also: Lydia Lunch, Poison Girls, Calamity Jane)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Durand Jones</b>, <i>"Wait Til I Get Over"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Church Soul.</font><br />
After the recent Disco turn by The Indications, the soulful frontman brings it all back home solo.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sharon Jones, John Legend, Benjamin Booker)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ian Kay</b>, <i>"Walk That Road Again"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Beat Club.</font><br />
Each song sounds like a different British Invasion band, with jumping tunes they'd be jealous of.<br />
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<small>(see also: <i>"Rubber Soul"</i>, <i>"Between The Buttons"</i>, <i>"A Quick One"</i>)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Siena Root</b>, <i>"Revelation"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Soulful Stoner.</font><br />
To be Rock but also roll. The Swedish band churns that Sabbath grunge while new vocalist Zubaida Solid brings all the Blues burn.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Savage Rose, Affinity, Frumpy)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Dhani Harrison</b>, <i>"Innerstanding"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Indiedelic.</font><br />
Completely comfortable with sonic roots from his father, Dhani also continually branches out into new sound vistas and techniques.<br />
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<small>(see also: Hari Georgeson, RZA, Flying Lotus)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Tinariwen</b>, <i>"Amatssou"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Algerian Blues.</font><br />
The maestros of Desert Blues explore duned valleys others have yet to reach.<br />
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<small>(see also: Songhoy Blues, Bombino, Mdou Moctar)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kae Tempest</b>, <i>"Nice Idea"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Spoken Sword.</font><br />
Kae Tempest is the sharpest Rapper on the planet.<br />
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<small>(see also: Gil Scott-Heron, Anne Clark, Young Fathers)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Snõõper</b>, <i>"Super Snõõper"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">ChopShop PunkPop.</font><br />
Witty ditties and flinty pretties at the speed of thought.<br />
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<small>(see also: Ocees, Illuminati Hotties)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>WITCH</b>, <i>"Zango"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">African Rock.</font><br />
Nigerian Rock flourished in the mid-'70s, and then was extinguished by oppression. But the band <b>W</b>e <b>I</b>ntend <b>T</b>o <b>C</b>ause <b>H</b>avoc has stayed true to their promise with this righteous return.<br />
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<small>(see also: Rikki Ililonga, Ngozi Family, The Peace)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>La Sécurité</b>, <i>"Stay Safe!"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Dance Punk.</font><br />
This nervy Canadian quintet pumps out contagious earworms that make you shimmy with squirm.<br />
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<small>(see also: Delta 5, Romeo Void, Erase Errata)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Iggy Pop</b>, <i>"Every Loser"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Punk Godfather.</font><br />
You can 'Do It Yourself', but the originator will always do it better.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Sonics, The Stooges, MC5)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Mitchum Yacoub</b>, <i>"Living High In The Brass Empire"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Global Afrobeat.</font><br />
Instro jams and sung gems (ft. Divina Jasso) blending Afrobeat with Cumbia and soulful Funk.<br />
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<small>(see also: Lee Perry, Tony Allen, The Mighty Macombos)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pretenders</b>, <i>"Relentless"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Honest Rock.</font><br />
Chrissie Hynde continues her recent winning streak with all of the band's strengths, from ballad to blowtorch.<br />
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<small>(see also: New York Dolls, Patti Smith Group, Hole)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>El Michels Affair, Black Thought</b>, <i>"Glorious Game"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Spectral Word.</font><br />
The complex rhymes of Black Thought <small>(frontman for The Roots)</small> are backed by the atmospheric cinema of Leon Michels <small>(El Michels Affair, The Arcs)</small>.<br />
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<small>(see also: Rakim, Ikebe Shakedown, The Roots)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ron Gallo</b>, <i>"Foreground Music"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Garage Songwriter.</font><br />
Street tuff read books, kick mental ass.<br />
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<small>(see also: John Lennon, Lou Reed, Ty Segall)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>aja monet</b>, <i>"when the poems do what they do"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Spoken Wordsmith.</font><br />
The new front tier of political/sociological/etymological logistics.<br />
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<small>(see also: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Mystic)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Rolling Stones</b>, <i>"Hackney Diamonds"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Rock And Roll.</font><br />
A trio now with everything to prove, and all the verve (and guests *) to make the case.<br />
* <small>Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Lady Gaga...</small><br />
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<small>(see also: The Replacements, The Black Crowes, Lucinda Williams)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Sweeping Promises</b>, <i>"Good Living Is Coming For You"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Nouveau Wave.</font><br />
Rubber bass, scratching guitar, shivery synth, terse vox, dance now for future.<br />
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<small>(see also: Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Pylon, Ex Hex)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Zombies</b>, <i>"Different Game"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Classic Rock.</font><br />
It would be easy, and understandable, to coast on the glory of the classic <i>"Odessey And Oracle"</i> <small>(1968)</small> album. But The Zombies have too much life still in them, case in point this spryly assured album.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Ultimate Painting)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Dot Allison</b>, <i>"Consciousology"</i></font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff">Electronic Hymnals.</font><br />
Scottish seraph makes electronic tapestries, soaring and luminous.<br />
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<small>(see also: Linda Perhacs, Keren Ann, Isobel Campbell)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Beatles</b>, <i>"Now And Then"</i> single</font><br />
<font color="1ab2ff"><b>The</b> Band of all time.</font><br />
Beautiful, moving, haunting, perfect.<br />
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<center><h2><font color="ffffff">All the</font> <font color="FFFF00">REAL MUSIC</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">beyond the box!</font></h2></center><br />
<center>Nevermind Gloss Pop, Stepford Idols, Karaoke Choruses <small>(<i>"woh-oo-oh"</i>)</small>, Ego Brats, Keening Emo, Plinky Twee, Brittle Bombast, Vegas Country, Smug Thug, Mope Noodling, De-mixed Throb, and Bot-o-Tune schlock!<br />
<font size="2">➤ <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-why-music-sounds-worse" target="_blank">The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse</a></font><br />
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<b>Here's the<br />
<font color="FFFF00">D R E A M<br />
J U K E B O X !</font></b></center><br />
<b><center>Free your mind<br />
and your aspirations will follow!</center></b><br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">COOL SONGS 2023<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
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<center>*<small>(The Player is limited to the first 200 songs.<br />
Hear the unlimited Playlist online <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36bVylv8ls8u02FgGcosy5" target="_blank">here</a>.)</small></center><br />
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<center>This jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly.<br />
All the songs elasticize their genres.<br />
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:</center><br />
<center><i><font color="ccff33">Rockabilly!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Surf!</font> <font color="ccff33">Beat!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Garage!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Psyche!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Rock!</font> <font color="ccff33">Punk!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Folk!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Blues!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Soul!</font> <font color="ccff33">Funk!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Africanarama!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">World!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl!</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rock!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Electro!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Alt-Rap!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Cinematic!</font> <font color="ffffff">RESIST!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><small>Black Pumas; Altin Gün;<br />
Tami Neilson; The Kills <font size="1">1</font></small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Mike Massaro</font></center><br />
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<font color="00ffbf">23 hours</font><font color="00cc00"> of naughty thoughty music</font>, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Rockabilly</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Silhouettes, Sonny Burgess + The Fuzztones, Nick Moss Band, Kidder Friendly Club, The Same Old Shoes, Dale Rocka And The Volcanoes, Generador, and Slink Moss Explosion.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Surf / Shindig</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Boom Pam, Man Or Astro-Man?, Los Tiki Phantoms, Tami Neilson, Stephen Sanchez, Cut Worms, Annabelle Chairlegs, and The Courettes.<br />
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<center><small>Los Tiki Phantoms; Stephen Sanchez;<br />
The Jack Cades; Barrence Whitfield</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Beat</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Ringo Starr, Televisionaries, Lisa Beat and The Liars, The Liquorice Experiment, Shonen Knife, Magic Bag, Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives, The Jack Cades, The Exbats, and Super Gentle.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Garage</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Night Beats, PowerSolo, Thee Headcoats, The Laissez Fairs, Private Lives, The Damned, TV Party, Miranda And The Beat, Barrence Whitfield And The Savages, The Darts <small>(U.S.)</small>, The Hives, Os Pontas, Ian Kay, and reunions of Los Shakers and Dara Puspita.<br />
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<center><small>The Reverberations;<br />
Las Robertas</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Psychedelic / Groovy</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Clientele, Shadow Show, Vanity Mirror, The Reverberations, Darlingside, Skyway Man, Emma Anderson, H. Hawkline, Durand Jones, Billy Tibbals, Cari Cari, Viv and the Sect, Matt Berry, Helicon, Groovy Uncle, Balduin, Shadow Show, The Clientele, Katie Von Schleicher, Temples, Olivia Jean, Death Valley Girls, Las Robertas, Animal Collective, Kassi Valazza, James Ellis Ford, and Iraina Mancini.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">BEATLESque</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Beatles, Jack Bartlett, Margo Price, King Tuff, Groovy Uncle, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Daisy Jones And The Six, Oracle Sisters, Ben von Wildenhaus, Ron Gallo, Kristin Hersh, Diamond Hands, Lael Neale, Flyte, Quasi, CVC, and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.<br />
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<center><small>Jack Bartlett; Lael Neale;<br />
Lori S. of Acid King; Siena Root</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Hard Rock</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Rolling Stones, Miles Kane, Ffa Coffi Pawb, The Bots, and Low Cut Connie.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Stoner</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Bass Drum of Death, Acid King, Church Of Misery, Goat, Queens of the Stone Age, Death Valley Girls, Midwestern Roadkill, Chrome, and Siena Root.<br />
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<center><small>Daisy Jones And The Six;<br />
Lobsterbomb;<br />
Algiers</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Classic Rock</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Glyders, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Rain Parade, Lil Yachty, BC Camplight, Stornoway, Raze Regal + White Denim Inc, The Zombies, and Daisy Jones And The Six.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Punk / PostPunk</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Iggy Pop, Pretenders, Lobsterbomb, Algiers, J.T. IV, Death, Fashion Tips, Sister Paul, Bush Tetras, Mozart Estate, Thee Oh Sees, and Mononegatives.<br />
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<center><small>Dot Allison; Sunny War;<br />
Ron Sexsmith; Kara Jackson</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Folk</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The William Loveday Intention, Lady Apple Tree, Joy Oladokun, Bill Orcutt, Dot Allison, PJ Harvey, Molly Tuttle, Meg Baird, Leyla McCalla, Julie Byrne, Beck, Billie Marten, Grian Chatten, Pretenders, Tele Novella, Jenny Lewis, Josephine Network, and Sunny War.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Country</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Denitia, Ron Sexsmith, Willie Nelson, Tracy Nelson, Andrew Gabbard, The Watson Twins, Colter Wall, Julian Taylor, Kassi Valazza, Kara Jackson, Cleo Sol, Dani Kerr, and Allison Russell.<br />
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<center><small>Robert Finley; Jalen Ngonda;<br />
Greyhounds; Fatoumata Diawara <font size="1">1</font></small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Shelby Duncan</font></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Blues</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Mitski, GA-20, Stephen Wilson Jr, Peter One, Guadalupe Plata, The Kills, Robert Finley, Ida Mae, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, The Nude Party, Rival Sons, Margo Cilker, and Rhiannon Giddens.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Soul</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Anohni, Tami Neilson, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Lone Bellow, Rissi Palmer, The Murlocs, Danielle Ponder, Gabriels, Chris Stapleton, Smokey Robinson, Liv.e, White Denim, New Visionaries, Black Pumas, JJ Grey And Mofro, Bastards Of Soul, Kendra Morris, Jessie Ware, Jalen Ngonda, Emma Wilson and Don Bryant, Emma Noble, Dina Ögon, Thee Sacred Souls, Greyhounds, Fatoumata Diawara, Thee Marloes, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, and The Arcs.<br />
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<center><small>Bootsy Collins; Chai;<br />
WITCH; Las Odio;<br />
The Darts; Dream Wife</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Funk</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Bettye LaVette, Eddie 9V, Ally Venable, The Sextones, Surprise Chef, Alexis Evans, The Headhunters, Lonnie Liston Smith, Bootsy Collins, Shakedown, Nona Hendryx, Smudge All Stars ft. George Clinton, Chai, Babe Rainbow, Girl Ray, and A Certain Ratio.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Africanarama</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Adrian Younge, Mitchum Yacoub, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Tony Allen + Adrian Younge, Black Market Brass, Alogte Oho and His Sounds of Joy, Dave Okumu, Nana Benz du Togo, African Head Charge, The Polyversal Souls, Tinariwen, Bombino, WITCH, and Idris Ackamoor.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">World</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Dudu Tassa ft. Nour Freteikh, Temples, Altin Gün, Los Espiritus, Fuensanta, Hermanos Gutiérrez ft. Jensine Benitez, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Las Odio, Mong Tong, Dengue Fever, Emel, Chris St. Hilaire, and Scott McMicken And The Ever-Expanding.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Riot Grrrl</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Pretenders, The Darts <small>(U.S.)</small>, Corinne Bailey Rae, Snõõper, Maggot Heart, R. Ring, Scowl, Sweeping Promises, Be Your Own Pet, Hannah Jadagu, Dream Wife, Kill Flora, Deerhoof, Grrrl Gang, Mary Bell, and Lambrini Girls.<br />
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<center><small>Genesis Owusu <font size="1">1</font>; The Pearl Harts;<br />
Cindy Wilson; Natalie Holt;<br />
Kae Tempest; aja monet</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Bec Parsons</font></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Rock</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Water From Your Eyes, Dhani Harrison ft. Mereki, Caroline Rose, Gaz Coombes, Say She She, Genesis Owusu, The Selecter, Shana Cleveland, Blur, The Waeve, Iguana Death Cult, Marianne Faithfull, Guided By Voices, Mike Donovan, En Attendant Ana, BC Camplight, Hak Baker, Bush Tetras, The New Pornographers, Allah-Las, Packs, La Sécurité, Warmduscher, Operelly, Spirit Award, Jen Cloher, Palatine, The Pearl Harts, Delivery, Co-Pilot, Crosslegged, King Krule, Brittany Howard, L'Rain, The Drin, and Lorelle Meets The Obsolete.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Electronic</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
A Certain Ratio, Cindy Wilson, Peter Gabriel, Model/Actriz, Mandy Indiana, Amanda Jones, Natalie Holt, Ladytron, Takeshi's Cashew, Sparks, and Teo Wise.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Rap</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Future Utopia, Kae Tempest, El Michels Affair, Jelly Roll, The Go! Team, Baxter Dury, Noname ft. Jimetta Rose + Voices of Creation, Benefits, Lisa Marie Simmons, Rarelyalways, Sleaford Mods + Perry Farrell, aja monet, Lonnie Holley, Aunty Rayzor, Danger Mouse + Jemini the Gifted One, billy woods + Kenny Segal, and Shabazz Palaces.<br />
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<center><small>Matana Roberts <font size="1">1</font>; Ryuichi Sakamoto;<br />
Miranda And The Beat; Marlene Ribeiro</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Hunter McKnight</font></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Jazz</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Adrian Younge/Phil Ranelin/Wendell Harrison, Irreversible Entanglements, Yussef Dayes, Matana Roberts, Meshell Ndegeocello ft. Brandee Younger + Julius Rodriguez, Sex Mob, Anjimile, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, John Dwyer, Kassa Overall, and Blake Mills.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Spaghetti Western</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Stein, Xylouris White, The Saxophones, Stephen Sanchez, Guadalupe Plata, The Coral, Ruen Brothers, Fox Sinclair, and Flourish.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Cinematic</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Miranda and the Beat, Black Market Brass, Unloved, David Holmes + Raven Violet, Calibro 35, Ironsides, Grace Woodroofe, Smoke Fairies, Nicole Atkins + Jim Sclavunos, Kendra Morris, Quasi, Hannah Macklin, Yves Tumor, Emil Amos, Via Mardot, Guided By Voices, The Dainty Morsels, always centered at night + Moby, Marlene Ribeiro, Lanterns on the Lake, Helicon, and Isolde Lasoen.<br />
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<center><small>Robbie Robertson; Tune-Yards <font size="1">1</font>;<br />
Idris Ackamoor; Say She She.</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Eliot Lee Hazel</font></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Soundtracks</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Lera Lynn, Anna Calvi, Kris Bowers + London Contemporary Orchestra, Robbie Robertson, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Nainita Desai, Tune-Yards, and Gustavo Santaolalla.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ffffff">RESIST</font><font color="ccff33">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Selecter, JJ Grey And Mofro, Chris St. Hilaire, Idris Ackamoor, Willie J. Laws Jr, Abism, Midwestern Roadkill, Joanna Sternberg, Mudhoney, Frightwig, Raye, Margaret Glaspy, Acid Tongue, The Stubs, L7, The Linda Lindas, Danielle Brooks, Say She She, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and Lenny Kravitz.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Holidays</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Yuletime Lifters, The Cash Box Kings, Greyhounds/T Bird And The Breaks, Groovy Uncle, Norah Jones + Laufey, and Elephant Stone.<br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>C O V E R</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">S O N G S</font><br />
<font color="FFFFFF">2 0 2 3</font></h1></center><br />
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<center><h2><font color="ffffff">All the Best</font><br />
<font color="FFFF00">COVER VERSIONS</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">of the year!</font></h2></center><br />
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Music is the throughline of the human spirit.<br />
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Singing timeless songs in times of uncertainty brings us solace, offers out support, and bonds us in communion.<br />
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In times that separate us from each other, sharing songs reaffirms us as a people, honors our origins, and lights the way for the young.<br />
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There were an abundance of cover songs in 2023. Through them, we sought reflection, revelation, and renewal. Here’s a playlist of our mutual journey.<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">COVER SONGS 2023<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<center><small>Hear the Playlist online <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mt8RvSQXoKiJB5AhriCRw" target="_blank">here</a>.</small></center><br />
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List = <b>Original By</b> / <i>Cover Artist</i><br />
Songs are sequenced in the chronological order of the Originals.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">1920s-'40s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00cc00"><b>(trad) / Sister Rosetta Tharpe</b></font> / <i>Valerie June</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Louis Armstrong</b></font> / <i>Weyes Blood</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Memphis Minnie</b></font> / <i>Candice Ivory</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Duke Ellington</b></font> / <i>Taj Mahal</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Fred Astaire</b></font> / <i>Rickie Lee Jones</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Larry Clinton</b></font> / <i>Angel Olsen</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Ink Spots</b></font> / <i>Sharon Van Etten</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Memphis Minnie</b></font> / <i>Sue Foley</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'50s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>Bo Diddley</b></font> / <i>Spoon</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Little Richard</b></font> / <i>The Brains + Danny B. Harvey</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Johnny Cash</b></font> / <i>The Reverend Horton Heat</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Little Jimmy Dickens</b></font> / <i>The Same Old Shoes</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Champs</b></font> / <i>Los Bitchos</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Tony Bennett; Bobby Vinton</b></font> / <i>Messer Chups</i><br />
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<center><small>Spoon;<br />
Los Bitchos;<br />
Mazimpakas;<br />
The Shivas</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'60s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ffbf00"><b>Junior Wells</b></font> / <i>Junior Wells + The Fuzztones</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Chuck Berry</b></font> / <i>Sugar Tradition</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Dom Flemons</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Sunny Sweeney</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>The Pioneers</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Sonics</b></font> / <i>The Dunne Brothers</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Cat Power</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Seeds</b></font> / <i>Diamond Hands</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Kinks</b></font> / <i>The Grip Weeds</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Healing Potpourri</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Brad Mehldau</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Jefferson Airplane</b></font> / <i>The Storm Windows</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Jefferson Airplane</b></font> / <i>Molly Tuttle</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Jimi Hendrix Experience</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Chicago</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Zombies</b></font> / <i>Fastbacks</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Sam And Dave</b></font> / <i>Sam And Dave + The Courettes</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Eddie Floyd</b></font> / <i>Emma Wilson</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Glen Campbell</b></font> / <i>Midland</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Creedence Clearwater Revival</b></font> / <i>Roadsaw</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>MC5</b></font> / <i>Mazimpakas</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>HAIR</b></font> Musical / <i>Tumppi Varonen</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Supergrass</i> (rec. 2003) <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Joni Mitchell</b></font> / <i>Solem Quartet</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Kinks</b></font> / <i>Autoramas</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Rolling Stones</b></font> / <i>Lainey Wilson</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nick Drake</b></font> / <i>Fontaines D.C.</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Bob Dylan</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Rebecca Pidgeon + Patrick Moraz</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>(trad.) / Simon And Garfunkel</b></font> / <i>Guadalupe Plata</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Sly And The Family Stone</b></font> / <i>Sly Stone + Bootsy Collins</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Shocking Blue</b></font> / <i>The Shivas</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Velvet Underground</b></font> / <i>The Feelies</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>George Jackson</b></font> / <i>Orgone + Gina Murrell</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Della Mae; Emeli Sandé;<br />
Rahill; Elisapie</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'70s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00cc00"><b>MC5</b></font> / <i>Joecephus And The George Jonestown Massacre</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Crosby Stills Nash and Young</b></font> / <i>Della Mae</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>John Lennon</b></font> / <i>Liam Gallagher</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b></font> / <i>Eva Under Fire</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Nick Drake</b></font> / <i>Emeli Sandé</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>John Denver</b></font> / <i>Lana Del Rey</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>“Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory”</b></font> soundtrack / <i>Storefront Church; Timothee Chalamet</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>T.Rex</b></font> / <i>Katie Jacoby</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Easy Star All-Stars</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Brad Mehldau</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Gil Scott- Heron</b></font> / <i>The Fusion Syndicate</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Lou Reed</b></font> / <i>Al Green</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Sufjan Stevens</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Steely Dan</b></font> / <i>Full Cord</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Yoko Ono</b></font> / <i>Rahill</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pink Floyd</b></font> / <i>Roger Waters</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Isley Brothers</b></font> / <i>Willie J Laws Jr</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Elton John</b></font> / <i>The Chisel</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Leftover Salmon</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Led Zeppelin</b></font> / <i>Lindsey Stirling</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Badfinger</b></font> / <i>Dennis Diken</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Queen</b></font> / <i>Queen Esther</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Ramones</b></font> / <i>Lisa Beat And The Liars</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Fleetwood Mac</b></font> / <i>Shayna Steele</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Talking Heads</b></font> / <i>Hannah Aldridge</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Richard Hell And The Voidoids</b></font> / <i>CTMF</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Nerves; Blondie</b></font> / <i>Spiders</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>Elisapie</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>X-Ray Spex</b></font> / <i>Cliffdiver</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>John Carpenter</b></font> / <i>Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Nicolette Larson</b></font> / <i>Juliana Hatfield</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>E.L.O.</b></font> / <i>Juliana Hatfield</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Dave Edmunds</b></font> / <i>Tegan and Sara</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marianne Faithfull</b></font> / <i>Peaches + Shirley Manson</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Garbage; Naomi SV;<br />
The Bitchwaves; Lavalove</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'80s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>Peter Gabriel</b></font> / <i>Silkroad Ensemble</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Blurt</b></font> / <i>Ocees</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Tom Petty + Stevie Nicks</b></font> / <i>Dale Ann Bradley</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Roxy Music</b></font> / <i>Trevor Horn</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Squeeze</b></font> / <i>Susanna Hoffs</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>R.E.M.</b></font> / <i>Micky Dolenz</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Julian Lennon</b></font> / <i>Katmen</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Siouxsie And The Banshees</b></font> / <i>Garbage</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Marianne Faithfull</b></font> / <i>Nicole Atkins + Jim Sclavunos</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Terence Trent D'arby</b></font> / <i>Bette Smith + Arthur Adams</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Depeche Mode</b></font> / <i>Jessica Mazin</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Crowded House</b></font> / <i>Budjerah</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Enya</b></font> / <i>Olivia Jean</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Pixies</b></font> / <i>Naomi SV</i>.<br />> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nirvana</b></font> / <i>Lavalove</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Siouxsie And The Banshees</b></font> / <i>The KVB</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Bella White</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nick Lowe; Johnny Cash</b></font> / <i>Delaney Davidson</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Bjork</b></font> / <i>In This Moment</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Soundgarden</b></font> / <i>Frayle</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000">
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'90s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ff8000"><b>The Cramps </b></font> / <i>The Courettes</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Cramps</b></font> / <i>The Bitchwaves</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Deee-Lite + Bootsy</b></font> / <i>Blues Traveler w/ Liv Warfield + Davie</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Depeche Mode</b></font> / <i>Trevor Horn; SOM</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Prince; Sinead O’Connor</b></font> / <i>Joshua Ray Walker</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>U2</b></font> / <i>U2</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font><b>Elliott Smith</b></font> / <i>Shannon Lay</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Lucinda Williams</b></font> / <i>Angel Olsen</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">2000s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00ffbf"><b>Gillian Welch</b></font> / <i>Bria</i> <font color="#00997a">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>George Harrison</b></font> / <i>Rosali</i> <font color="#00997a">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Raveonettes</b></font> / <i>The Brian Jonestown Massacre</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">2020s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>The Beatles</b></font>! / <i>Dreamerjazz; Timmy Sean; Emily Linge</i>.<br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>B E S T</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">R E I S S U E S :</font><br />
<font color="FFFFFF">2 0 2 3</font></h1></center><br />
<center><font color="ff00ff"><i><br />
Quality is timeless.</i></font></center><br />
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<center><font size="2"><b>T H E B E A T L E S</b></font></center><br />
<center><b>T H E B E A T L E S</b></center><br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">BEST REISSUES 2023<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1930s-'40s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald</b>, <i>"Bing And Ella"</i></font><br />
In the '30s and '40s, Bing constantly flipped off the bigots by duetting with Ella on his radio show. This collects them.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1950s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Johnny Ace and His Orchestra</b>, <i>"Pledging My Love"</i></font> <small>(1952-'54)</small><br />
Johnny died too young, but left us with trove of radiant harmony songs.<br />
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<center><small>Ella Fitzgerald;<br />
John Lee Hooker</small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFFFF">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">1960s</font> <font color="FFFFFF">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>John Lee Hooker</b>, <i>"Burnin'"</i></font> <small>(1961)</small><br />
<i>"Boom Boom"</i> and other danceble rumblers, exactly preceding the British Invasion and British Blues explosion.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Booker T. And The M.G.'s</b>, <i>"Green Onions</i></font> <small>(1962)</small><br />
Recorded quickly after the surprise title hit, it was already clear that this quartet would become the best Soul band of all time.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Dionne Warwick</b>, <i>The Complete Scepter And Warner Albums"</i></font> <small>(1962-’71)</small><br />
The combination of Dionne's unique lilt and Bacharach's dynamic Baroque standards still stands the test.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Judy Garland</b>, <i>"Classic Duets"</i></font><br />
Sinatra, Streisand, Bennett, Torme, Horne, Minelli, and more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Original Soundtrack</b>, <i>"The Sound Of Music"</i></font><br />
A deluxe Box Set remastering the album and a sundry of alternate takes and rarities.<br />
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<center><small>Thee Midniters;<br />
The Intricate Blend</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Thee Midniters</b>, <i>"Rockin' With Thee Midniters"</i></font><br />
The best of the East L.A. Mexican American rock bands. Every band who prefaces themselves with "Thee" gets it from here.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nina Simone</b>, <i>"You've Got To Learn (Live)"</i></font> <small>(1966)</small><br />
At this point, Nina has reached prominence as a Jazz interpreter and unbridled activist.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Beatles</b>, <i>"1962-1966"</i></font><br />
The 'Red Album' of greatest hits <small>(1973)</small> covering their early years, newly remastered with breakthrough technology that clarifies the sound of every voice and instrument.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b>, <i>"1967-1970"</i></font><br />
The 'Blue Album' of greatest hits <small>(1973)</small> charting their experimental years, remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Jimi Hendrix</b>, <i>"The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, August 18, 1967"</i></font><br />
The young audience for The Monkees were pretty shocked and illuminated by the unknown opening act.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Intricate Blend</b>, <i>"Heavy Sound From..."</i></font> <small>(1967)</small><br />
A collection of all the unreleased recordings of this all-female Psyche-Pop band.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The ID</b>, <i>"The Inner Sounds of The ID"</i></font> <small>(1967)</small><br />
Mysterious California Psyche band's album, plus a newly discovered alternate instrumental version of it.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Mojo Men</b>, <i>"There Goes My Mind"</i></font> <small>(1968)</small><br />
Unreleased songs and rareties of the Pop band famous for their hit version of Stills' <i>"Sit Down, I Think I Love You"</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Aretha Franklin;<br />
Steve Cropper</small></center><br />
<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Aretha Franklin</b>, <i>"Live At Berns Salonger, Stockholm May 2nd, 1968"</i></font><br />
The newly crowned Queen Of Soul, holding forth in full power.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>William Bell</b>, <i>"The Man In The Street: The Complete 'Yellow' Stax Solo Singles 1968-1974"</i></font><br />
One of the crucial singers at Stax Records, still making fine albums over the years.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Steve Cropper</b>, <i>"With A Little Help From My Friends"</i></font> <small>(1969)</small><br />
Steve's first solo album outside Booker T And The MGs.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Ecutoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981"</i></font><br />
Mayorga pioneered the fusion of traditional Ecuadorian music with Space Age synthesizers.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Mort Garson</b>, <i>"Journey To The Moon And Beyond"</i></font> <small>(1969, 1970)</small><br />
Ultra-rare scores for the Moon landing and more from the Synthesizer guru.<br />
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<center><small>Parliament;<br />
Ruth Copeland;<br />
The Who</small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1970s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Oliver Nelson</b>, <i>"Black, Brown, And Beautiful"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
A boldly experimental homage to the late MLK, mixing freeform Jazz with orchestral players.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Parliament</b>, <i>"Osmium"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
The original debut Psychedelic Soul album by Parliament (made simultaneously with their alias Funkadelic's self-titled debut), plus many extra rare tracks. Essential for every P-Funk and Psyche fan.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Ruth Copeland</b>, <i>"Self Portrait"</i> <small>(1970)</small> and <i>"I Am What I Am"</i> <small>(1971)</small></font><br />
Funk Rock albums by Parliament/Funkadelic's running buddy, who co-wrote songs with them, and toured with breakaway Funkadelics as her band.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Who</b>, <i>"Who's Next" / 'Lifehouse'</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
The Who tried to follow up <i>“Tommy”</i> <small>(1969)</small> with the ‘Life House’ project, a communal multimedia experience meant to literally free the soul. Though it collapsed in the strains of ambition, the classic <i>“Who’s Next”</i> album staggered out from the ruins.<br />
Along with remastering that album, this astounding box set pulls together all of the ‘Life House’ sessions, with many unheard songs at last available.<br />
(Also, ‘Life House’ has been newly adapted as a 12"x12" album size Graphic Novel, sold separately.)<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Jiro Inagaki And His Soul Media</b>, <i>"WaJazz Legends: Jiro Inagaki"</i></font><br />
The Japanese sax player grooving out some funky Soul Jazz.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Yes</b>, <i>"The Yes Album"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
A remastering of the pivotal Prog Rock album, with bonus period concerts.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Alice Cooper</b>, <i>"Killer"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
The premiere theatrical showman of Rock; this Hard Rock classic is remastered along with a bonus 1972 concert.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Elton John</b>, <i>"Honky Chateau"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
When Elton took the first steps transitioning from piano balladeer (<i>"Rocket Man"</i>) toward boogie rocker (<i>"Honky Cat"</i>).<br />
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<center><small>Pete Ham;<br />
Staple Singers at WattStax;<br />
War</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Pete Ham</b></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"Keyhole Street, Demos 1967"</i> Vols. 1 and 2</font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"7 Park Avenue"</i></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"Golders Green"</i></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"Gwent Gardens"</i></font>, <font color="00ffbf"><i>"Misunderstood"</i></font><br />
Pete Ham was the terrifically talented leader of Badfinger; these six volumes collect his unrelaesed home demos from the late-'60 to mid-'70s, including a treasure chest of great unrecorded songs.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos"</i></font><br />
A huge reservoir of unreleased demos that became hits or should have.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Soul'd Out: The Complete WattStax Collection"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The WattStax concert was the Woodstock of Soul music and Black empowerment. This vast compilation covers every act that performed.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"If There's Hell Below"</i></font><br />
A vital collection of Psychedelic Soul and Funk Rock acts from the early-'70s.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Chicago</b>, <i>"Chicago V"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The first single album after three double-albums in two years(!), during which the band had more hits and epic range than many artists' careers.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Joni Mitchell</b>, <i>"Archives, Volume 3: The Asylum Years"</i></font> <small>(1972- 1975)</small><br />
This is the period. Joni transformed from Folk troubadour to fluid innovator, lacing in Jazz, Funk, Rock, and more into her adventurous arrangements. This box set explores all sides of her most celebrated era with unknown rarities, alternate takes, and concert performances.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>War</b>, <i>"The World Is A Ghetto"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
An absolutely essential Funk album from perhaps the most formidable and versatile Funk band of these peak times.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bob Marley And The Wailers</b>, <i>"Catch A Fire"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
Bob, Peter, and Bunny's commercial breakthrough into the USA on Island Records, expanded out with alternate mixes and live tracks.<br />
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<center><small>David Bowie and Mick Ronson;<br />
Pink Floyd</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>"Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
The 1983 documentary film of The Spiders From Mars' last gig gets a fully restored soundtrack, beyond previous legal hurdles.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Pink Floyd</b>, <i>"The Dark Side Of The Moon"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
One of the greatest, and most influential, albums ever made.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Frank Zappa</b>, <i>"Overnight Sensation"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
Zappa regrouped (or rather un-grouped from the Mothers) and the new tighter focus really did make him a sudden star on the radio and tours.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The South Side Movement</b>, <i>"The South Side Movement"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
The Funk band's rare album, sampled by the Beastie Boys and many more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Little Feat</b>, <i>"Dixie Chicken"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
After their soulful debut, this second album is where the band became a funky powerhouse.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Gal Costa</b>, <i>"Índia"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
Tropicalismo music was banned and its stars deported from Brazil, and yet the countercultural resistance could not be censored, oppressed, or erased out of existence.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Hound Dog Taylor</b>, <i>"Natural Boogie"</i></font> <small>(1974)</small><br />
Hound Dog's six-fingered hands bashed out almost punkish Blues boogie while he laughed and joked all the way.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Tina Turner</b>, <i>"Whole Lotta Love"</i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
Ike And Tina Turner and The Rolling Stones played the same type of sound. Tina has always been a Rock artist, to those listening rather than looking, as this Rock-centric collection proves.<br />
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<center><small>Fleetwood Mac <font size="1">1</font></small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Sam Emerson</font></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Aerosmith</b>, <i>"Toys In The Attic"</i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
This is the moment where Stones and Zep may have been looking over their shoulders.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Mighty Clouds Of Joy</b>, <i>"Kickin'"</i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
Gospel at its funkiest.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Blank Generation: A Story Of U.S./ Canadian Punk and Its Aftershocks 1975-1981"</i></font><br />
A comprehensive 5-disc set, with a book, detailing the varied Punk scene generally hubbed in NYC, with transplants galore.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Guerrilla Girls! She-Punks and Beyond 1975-2016"</i></font><br />
Broadly sweeping 4-disc set of all-female bands from Punk to the recent present.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Free Music</b>, <i>"The Free Music (Part 1)"</i></font> <small>(1976)</small><br />
These Libyan Funkers were frighteningly great, roaring out dance tunes that will wrench your butt right off the couch.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Alessandro Alessandroni</b>, <i>"Alessandroni Proibito, Vol. 2: Music From Red Light Films 1976-1980"</i></font><br />
More of the sensual scores of 'Sandro', most famous as the guitarist/whistler/chorus-leader on Morricone's <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">spaghetti western</a> soundtracks.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Piero Umiliani</b>, <i>"Omaggio Ad Einstein"</i></font> <small>(1976)</small><br />
The wildest of the Cinecitta Studios composers, formulating more electronic adventures.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fleetwood Mac</b>, <i>"Rumours Live"</i></font> <small>(1977)</small><br />
They were the biggest band on Earth with the most record sales, and well deserved.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b>, <i>"Chrome Dreams"</i></font> <small>(1977)</small><br />
Neil pulled together various stray tunes for an album, and then didn't release it. Over time, he released variant versions of some songs. This is the official release of the original album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Steely Dan</b>, <i>"Aja"</i></font> <small>(1977)</small><br />
Many cite this Jazz/Pop centerpiece as one of the best-recorded albums ever mixed.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Devo</b>, <i>"50 Years Of Devolution 1973-2023"</i></font><br />
One long conceptual art experiment, that you can dance/thrash/pogo/robot to.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Richard Wright</b>, <i>"Wet Dream"</i></font> <small>(1978)</small><br />
A very Floydian solo album by their keyboardist, finally remastered and reissued.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Keeping Control: Independent Music From Manchester 1977-1981"</i></font><br />
A 3-disc overview of the industrial Manchester scene, from Buzzcocks to New Order.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Where Were You?: Independent Music From Leeds 1978-1989"</i></font><br />
A 3-disc overview of the collegiate Leeds scene, from The Mekons to Pale Saints.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Betty Davis</b>, <i>"Crashin' From Passion"</i></font> <small>(1979)</small><br />
Though often bootlegged, this unreleased album from the Funk Rock hellion is at last seeing proper issue, fully remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Toyah</b>, <i>"Sheep Farming In Barnet"</i></font> <small>(1979)</small><br />
Many acts umbrella-ed as 'PostPunk' would be better described as ProgPunk, and here's an exact example.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Cease And Resist: Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk in the UK 1979-1986"</i></font><br />
Perhaps the truest form of Punk was Anarcho: self-released, blisteringly political, communal in outlook, global in concerns. What once seemed isolationist is now reflected universally. If your music or resistance means a damn thing, it's probably because this paved your way.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"She's Got The Power: Female Power Pop, Punk, and Garage"</i></font> <small>(1978-2020s)</small><br />
A general gloss on women envigorating the mainstream, from Blondie to Palmyra Delran.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Yo! Boombox: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83"</i></font><br />
Solid outline of players in the original Electro scene, many getting proper due only now.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Steely Dan</b>, <i>"Gaucho"</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
Though this list only focused on two key albums, all of the band's original 1972-'80 run has been remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Jon Savage's 1980-1982: Art Of Things To Come"</i></font><br />
2-disc set compiled by the important Punk author, covering the intersections of Punk, Disco, New Wave, Funk, New Pop, and HipHop.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>David Byrne</b>, <i>"The Complete Score for 'The Catherine Wheel'"</i></font> <small>(1981)</small><br />
The fully-expanded release of Byrne's first solo album, a score for Twyla Tharpe's stage event.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Tom Tom Club</b>, <i>"Tom Tom Club"</i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Meanwhile, the rhythm section of Talking Heads helped break the NYC HipHop scene into mass consciousness with this funky classic, featuring the timeless smash, <i>"Genius Of Love"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Marshall Crenshaw</b>, <i>"Marshall Crenshaw"</i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
The spiritual love child of Buddy Holly and Brian Wilson makes the perfect debut record.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The Three O'Clock</b>, <i>"Baroque Hoedown"</i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Beat Pop from the Paisley Underground band.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Various artists</b>, <i>"Musik Music Musique 3.0: 1982 Synth Pop On The Air"</i></font><br />
A 3-disc set collating all forms of Synth Pop, from New Wave to Darkwave.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>R. Stevie Moore</b>, <i>"On Earth"</i></font><br />
A primer of the indie pioneer's early years, who created innumerable albums in as many styles in his home studio.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Malcolm McLaren</b>, <i>"Duck Rock"</i></font> <small>(1983)</small><br />
Another breakthrough for HipHop to the wider world, with preliminary excursions into NYC breakbeats and Soweto music.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The Good Samaritans</b>, <i>"No Food Without Taste If By Hunger"</i></font> <small>(1983)</small><br />
Impossibly rare Nigerian Funk, with sinewy Psyche riffs and bright Highlife horns.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Talking Heads</b>, <i>"Stop Making Sense"</i></font> <small>(1984)</small><br />
An expanded version of the concert documentary soundtrack, remastered for vinyl.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Junie Morrison</b>, <i>"Evacuate Your Seats"</i></font> <small>(1984)</small><br />
A member of both The Ohio Players and P-Funk, Junie's sorely neglected Techno-Funk gem gets a proper spotlight again.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Pandoras</b>, <i>"It's About Time"</i></font> <small>(1984)</small><br />
Parallel to the Paisley Underground, this all-female band was more Garage Rock than their Beat or Psyche revival peers.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>New Order</b>, <i>"Substance 1987"</i></font><br />
New Order locked in their identity and success after Joy Division with this fortuitous collection of 12" Remixes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Gene Clark and Carla Olson</b>, <i>"So Rebellious A Lover"</i></font> <small>(1987)</small><br />
During the dominant flux of synth music, Gene Clark <small>(The Byrds)</small> and Carla Olson <small>(The Textones)</small> made an exquisite roots album of ephemeral Folk and harmonic Country.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Tom Waits</b>, <i>"Frank's Wild Years"</i></font> <small>(1987)</small><br />
In full Beefheart mode now, with a shredded bellow and wounded heart.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>De La Soul</b>, <i>"3 Feet High And Rising"</i></font> <small>(1989)</small><br />
The 'Native Tongues' movement <small>(De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, Money Love)</small> bumrushed the national stage with the success of this almost Zappa-esque counterpart/foil to Conscious Rap.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Julee Cruise</b>, <i>"Floating Into The Night"</i></font> <small>(1989)</small><br />
The ethereal and eerie diva produced by David Lynch, which anticipated the Dream Pop, Shoegaze, and TripHop acts that followed. And <i><a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">'Twin Peaks'</a></i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Ali Farka Touré</b>, <i>"Voyageur"</i></font> <small>(1991-2004)</small><br />
The sower of Desert Blues, documented in jams and rehearsals during tours.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Prince And The New Power Generation</b>, <i>"Diamonds And Pearls"</i></font> <small>(1991)</small><br />
An insanely lavish box set that expands upon the original album with extras galore. The 33 unheard tracks equal three unreleased albums alone.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Tom Waits</b>, <i>"Bone Machine"</i></font> <small>(1992)</small><br />
Tom's held his own with abrasion and sheer chutzpah during the furious apex of Grunge.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nirvana</b>, <i>"In Utero"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
How do you deal with overwhelming success of <i>"Nevermind"</i> <small>(1991)</small>? Kurt rallied forth by processing about the pressure itself, leaving us with this excellent final studio album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Breeders</b>, <i>"Last Splash"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
In the wake of Pixies, the Deal sisters made a record for the ages. This remaster comes from better sources than before, with a few surprise goodies.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Juliana Hatfield Three</b>, <i>"Become What You Are"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
After Blake Babies, Juliana defined herself as a grunge grrrl with pop chops.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Lush</b>, <i>"Spooky"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
The Shoegaze band with the most success, with perennial classics like <i>"Nothing Natural"</i> and <i>"For Love"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Vivian Stanshall</b>, <i>"Dog Howl In Tune"</i></font> <small>(1995)</small><br />
An unreleased album by the leader of Bonzo Dog Band, featuring several of his famous mates at the rollicking party.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Donnas</b>, <i>"The Donnas"</i></font> <small>(1997)</small><br />
High school girls thrashing out brat punk at its best, in total Ramones abandon.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b>, <i>"Fragments: 'Time Out Of Mind' Sessions 1996-1997"</i></font><br />
An alternate view of one of Dylan's finest albums.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Portishead</b>, <i>"Roseland NYC Live 25"</i></font> <small>(1998)</small><br />
The ultimate TripHop band in peak form, supported by an orchestra.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Scott Weiland</b>, <i>"12 Bar Blues"</i></font> <small>(1998)</small><br />
The frontman of Stone Temple Pilots impresses and surprises with this mercurial, edgy, catchy solo turn.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Elvis Costello + Burt Bacharach</b>, <i>"The Songs Of Bacharach and Costello"</i></font><br />
Costello had written and sung fine on his own, and then he did both better after studying with Pop's baroque master.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros</b>, <i>"Live At Action Town Hall"</i></font> <small>(rec. 2002)</small><br />
The former leader of The Clash had a second spring with his global music approach. This newly released concert hoists the banner.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The White Stripes</b>, <i>"Elephant"</i></font> <small>(2003)</small><br />
The moment when their Garage Rock flourished into an energizing new form of Classic Rock.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Nikka Costa</b>, <i>"Pebble To A Pearl"</i></font> <small>(2008)</small><br />
Bounding Funk for a revived Stax Records.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Dan Auerbach</b>, <i>"Keep It Hid"</i></font> <small>(2009)</small><br />
Dan's first stretch outside of The Black Keys, fortified with new shades of Blues, Soul, Bluegrass, and more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Weyes Blood</b>, <i>"Front Row Seat To Earth"</i></font> <small>(2016)</small><br />
<i>The</i> record of the decade, sublime and epic, now on vinyl.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Courettes</b>, <i>"Boom! Dynamite"</i></font><br />
This primer of the Brazilian/Danish Garage duo goes from hits to hidden depths.<br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-comix-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2011</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-movies-and-tv-2000-2010.html" target="_blank"BEST MOVIES + TV: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-music-2000-2010-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-comix-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2000-2010</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-60881158439010604112023-12-13T18:54:00.000-08:002024-01-20T17:25:49.418-08:00BEST COMICS: 2023<br />
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<center><small>Graphic by <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com" target="_blank">Tym Stevens</a><br />
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Chapter links:<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffffff">★</font> <font size="5"><a href="#C2">All-Ages Comics</a>!</font><br />
<font size="2"><font color="ffffff">★</font></font> <a href="#C2a">Early Readers: 4-6</a><br />
<font size="2"><font color="ffffff">★</font></font> <a href="#C2b">Young Readers: 7-12</a><br />
<font size="2"><font color="ffffff">★</font></font> <a href="#C2c">Young Adult: 13-18</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C3">Best Graphic Novels</a></font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C4">Best Collections + Reissues</a></font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C5">Where We Come From, Dept.</a></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C6">Best Magazines</a></font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C7">Best Movies + TV</a></font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C8">Best Webcomics</a></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font size="5"><a href="#C9">Rest In Power</a></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Miracleman:<br />
The Silver Age</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Cross your fingers. We might actually get the future this time.<br />
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The semi-short version: Alan Moore created postmodern, adult superheroes with the British hero, <i>"Marvelman"</i> <small>(1982)</small>; in the USA, this climaxed in the unmatchable 'Book 3' of the renamed <i>"Miracleman"</i> <small>(1988)</small>; Moore's chosen successor, Neil Gaiman, had barely started the second of his intended three follow-up arcs when the indie publisher went bankrupt <small>(1993)</small>; after decades of legal wrangling, Marvel is letting Gaiman finish. This second arc of the three, with new art and expanded story, is at last in your grasp.<br />
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Don't miss out this time. Miracles don't happen every day.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Black Panther</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Ridley and German Peralta</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Taking over from bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates, film director John Ridley <small>(12 YEARS A SLAVE)</small> rethinks Wakanda.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Daredevil and Echo</b></font>,<br />
<i>by B. Earl + Taboo; art by Phil Noto</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Just in time before her live-action TV series, the Native American hero returns in a three-issue series, with typically fine art by Phil Noto.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Doctor Strange</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jed Mackay and Pasqual Ferry</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Cosmic Fantasy with cinematic snap and wry character beats.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fantastic Four</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ryan North, Iban Coello, Ivan Fiorelli</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Mostly known for his whacky humor, writer Ryan North <small>(Squirrel Girl)</small> stretches out into phantasmic adventure, bringing that Lee/Kirby magic to this relaunch of Marvel’s flagship hero team.<br />
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Marvel reprinted facsimile editions of classic comics issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Avengers #1</b></font> <small>(Sept 1963)</small>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Taking a cue from DC’s Justice League in 1963, Marvel banded all of its fledgling early heroes into a team book. Maybe you’ve heard of them.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Amazing Spider-Man #121</b></font> <small>(June 1973)</small>,<br />
<i>by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The most important event in all of Spider-Man’s history, endlessly copied and never matched.
There was once actually a time when a crucial comics character’s death really meant something, and this was it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Amazing Spider-Man #122</b></font> <small>(July 1973)</small>,<br />
<i>by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The aftermath of the most important event in all of Spider-Man’s history.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Strange Tales #178</b>, starring Adam Warlock</font> <small>(Feb 1975)</small>,<br />
<i>by Jim Starlin +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After his success with the Captain Mar-Vell series, Starlin elevated his cosmic Thanos saga with this mythic anti-hero.<br />
(Adam Warlock made his live-action MCU debut in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Micronauts #1</b></font> <small>(Jan 1979)</small>,<br />
<i>by Bill Mantlo, Michael Golden, and Josef Rubenstein</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The first twelve issues of <i>"The Micronauts"</i> were the <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-comics-2020.html#C11" target="_blank">STAR WARS of 1970s comics</a>, in scope and in impact.<br />
Kept in limbo for 40 years by rights issues, only diehard fans seem to know this. Now everyone can catch up with this pristine remastering of the original premiere issue.<br />
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(The first 30 issues will be compiled in <i>The Micronauts Omnibus</i> in 2024.)<br />
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<center><small>Proudly rebellious.</small></center><br />
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Marvel is doing a splendid job making movies between the movies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Star Wars</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Charles Soule (w), and Andres Genolet, Madibek Musabekov, and Andrea Di Vito (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For 75 issues, Volume I of this series did excellent arcs filling in the mysteries between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
Now it has relaunched from #1, unveiling dream movies between THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Darth Vader</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Greg Pak (w), and Luke Ross, Ibraim Roberson, Adam Gorham, and Raffaele Ienco (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In complete parallel with these new stories of the rebels is a relaunch telling the Dark Lord's side of the same events, and how they overlap.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Doctor Aphra</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Alyssa Wong (w) and Minkyu Jung and Natacha Bustos (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The misadventures of everyone's favorite anti-Indiana Jones (a fan-favorite spin-off from the <i>"Darth Vader"</i> series above) continue during the period between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Sana Starros</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Justina Ireland and Pere Perez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A five-issue mini starring Han Solo’s foil.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Visions: Peach Momoko</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Peach Momoko</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The <i>'Visions'</i> animated series showcases non-canon experimental short films by global creators. This comic extends it to the page with a tale by stylist Peach Momoko.<br />
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➜ <font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/andor-new-revolution.html" target="_blank">ANDOR, The New Revolution</a><br />
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Forget the corporation, support the creators.<a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-comics-2020.html#C2" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Human Target</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom King and Greg Smallwood</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Christopher Chance poses as a hit to lure out assassins. King's writing is typically sharp, and Smallwood's art -all pencil lines and pop graphics- is an innovative masterclass in this 12-issue maxi-series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Superman</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Never count out the original superhero.<br />
He’s the reason there are superlatives.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A great author and a great artist bring two double-sized issues centered on the original superhero and supervillain.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Shazam!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Waid and Dan Mora</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The <i>original</i> Captain Marvel. Catch up to the lightning.<br />
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<font color="33ccff"><b>Facsimile editions:</b></font><br />
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DC reprinted facsimile editions of classic comics issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Batman #1</b></font>, <small>(April 1940)</small><br />
<i>by Bill Finger (w); Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Without the characters, mythos, and gadgets invented by writer Bill Finger, there would be no Batman at all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Batman #181</b></font>, <small>(June 1966)</small><br />
<i>by Robert Kanigher and Gardner Fox (w); Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The debut of Poison Ivy, during the ’New Look’ Mod era.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Whiz Comics #1</b></font>, <small>(Feb 1940)</small><br />
<i>by Bill Parker and CC Beck +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The debut of the original Captain Marvel. <i>“Shazam!”</i><br />
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<center><small><i>L- <i>Saga</i>;<br />
R- <i>Monstress</i>; <i>Kaya</i></i></small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Saga</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Space Fantasy that breaks all molds, winning hearts and awards.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Monstress</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The bestselling author and the Goth Nouveau Manga artist continue to spellbind us with their complex Fantasy epic.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Kaya</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Wes Craig</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The girl with the magic arm rides lizards in the Poison Lands. Nuff said.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Love Everlasting</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom King and Elsa Charretier</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
With every love, she wakes in a different life and world.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Hammer: The End</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Malachi Ward</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Is this really the end, or a new beginning?<br />
A 6-issue series wrapping up major threads of Lemire’s ongoing multiversal heroes opus.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Carmilla, The First Vampire</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Amy Chu and Soo Lee</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The 1872 vampire novella (which pre-dated Stoker’s <i>“Dracula”</i>) is reinterpreted into the modern day in this graphic novel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Billionaire Island: Cult Of Dogs</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Russell gleefully ramps up the trenchant satire of the ultra-rich in this six-issue sequel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Justice Warriors</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two cops, grizzled vs. novice, roast every dystopian cliche in this six issue parody.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Know Your Station</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sarah Giley and Liana Kangas</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Who is killing the ultra-wealthy on the elite space station?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Mosely</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rob Guillory and Sam Lotfi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Can one poor man smash the corrupt Tech God system with his sanctified hammer?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Firefly: The Fall Guys</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sam Humphries and Jordi Perez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
More canonical stanzas in the ‘Verse.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Rare Flavours</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ram V and Filipe Andrade</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Can an Indian demon just become a world-famous chef without all the judgement? From the duo behind the acclaimed <i>The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</i>.<br />
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<center><b><i><font color="ffbf00">"Hey, Kids!</font> <font color="ffe300">Comics!"</font></i></b></center><br />
From the '30s to the '80s, comics unified all of the kids in the world.<br />
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Comics spinner racks were omnipresent in every grocery, newstand, and drugstore, a world of dreams in color for small change. But after 50 years, this changed.<br />
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As the fans grew older, comics grew more mature (and gradually more expensive). In the early-'80s, comics disappeared from common spaces to be sold only in individual comic stores. This was the best and worst thing that could have happened: the select stores became a lab for the medium to grow up with adult fans, but this Comics Renaissance left all the kids behind with no entry point. Now that three decades have passed, the young have moved on to games and streaming, seeing superheroes nowadays only in films that are meant for those longtime adult readers.<br />
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Roy Thomas once said, "The Golden Age of Comics is <b>8</b>."<br />
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Comics should still be a fun spark for kids. Now, with the spectacular success of <b>Raina Telgemeier</b>'s books, various publishers are finally figuring this out. A wide movement to provide more all-ages comics has risen. From single comics to trade paperbacks, there are many new entry points for young readers to join in and open up their imaginations.<br />
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<center><h1><font size="6"><font color="ffffff">Early R e a d e r s :<br />
<b>4 - 6</b></font></font></h1></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b><small>World of Reading:</small><br />
Spidey and His Amazing Friends:<br />
The Hangout Headache</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mike Kubat and Steve Behling</i> <small>(Marvel Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ Level Pre-1</font><br />
Spidey invites Hulk over, but he's a rowdy handful.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Spidey and His Amazing Friends:<br />
A Little Hulk Trouble,<br />
_________ <small>A Disney Junior Board book</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Steve Behling and Premise Entertainment</i> <small>(Marvel Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
When Hulk gets turned into a baby, the Spidey gang take care of him.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Ant-Man and The Wasp,<br />
_________ <small>A My Mighty Marvel First Book</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jack Kirby +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An overview of the shrinking heroes, using classic comics art.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Avengers,<br />
_________ <small>A My Mighty Marvel First Book</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by George Perez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An overview of the hero team, using classic comics art.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b><small>World of Reading:</small><br />
Star Wars -<br />
Meet the Galactic Heroes</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Emili Juhlin and Nate Millici; art by Tomatofarm and Powerstation Studios</i> <small>(Disney Lucasfilm Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<font color="33ccff"> ✔ Level 1: 4-5</font><br />
Meet the heroes of Star Wars!<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b><small>World of Reading:</small><br />
Star Wars -<br />
The Battle of Endor</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Elle Patrick; art by Tomatofarm and Powerstation Studios</i> <small>(Disney Lucasfilm Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ Level 2: 6-7</font><br />
Meet the Ewoks!<br />
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<center><font color="ffe300"><b>G O L D E N<br />
B O O K S</b></font></center><br />
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In recent years, <b>Little Golden Books</b> introduces kids to pop culture.<br />
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<center><small><i>The act you've know for all these years.</i></small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Beatles,<br />
_______ <small>A Little Golden Book Biography</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Judy Katschke and Maike Plenzke</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The greatest band of all time! Guaranteed to raise a smile.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Captain Marvel Meets The Marvels,<br />
_______ <small>A Little Golden Book</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nadia Shammas and Shane Clester</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Carol Danvers! Ms. Marvel! Photon!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Ghost Spider</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Christy Webster and Mingjue Helen Chen</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Everybody loves “Spider-Gwen”!<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>She-Hulk</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeneanne DeBois and Penelope Gaylord</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The strongest lawyer you could hire!<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Disney/Pixar’s<br />
Elemental</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cynthia Liu and Guiseppe DiMaio</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Fire and Water make great partners!<br />
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<center><font color="ffe300"><b>R A N D O M<br />
H O U S E</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>A Lot Like Batman</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Keith Negley</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Young Batman is shy at school and hangs in the shadows, but can he become outgoing like the other kids?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Super Friends:<br />
We Are Heroes!<br />
_________ <small>Step Into Reading</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Christy Webster; art by Fabio Laguna and Marco Lesko</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ 4-6</font><br />
Friends are the best.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Wonder Woman:<br />
Sisters Save the Day!<br />
_________ <small>Step Into Reading</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lois Evans and Melissa Manwill</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ 4-6</font><br />
Sisters rock.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Batman:<br />
All-Terrain Trouble!<br />
_________ A Pictureback Book </b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dave Croatto and Anthony Conley</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
It’s the Batmobile vs. the motocross bandits!<br />
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<center><h1><font size="6"><font color="ffffff">Y o u n g R e a d e r s :<br />
<b>7 - 12</b></font></font></h1></center><br />
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<font color="33ccff">This section is organized by <b>themes</b>.</font><br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>H E R O E S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Batman:<br />
5 Scarier Stories for a Dark Knight</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Matthew Cody and Jeannette Arrayo</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ 6-9</font><br />
The follow-up to <i>“Batman: 5 Scary Stories for a Dark Knight”</i>.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteries #3</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various creators</i> <small>(Stone Arch Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Batman and Scooby-Doo, like ice cream and cones.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Adventures of Batgirl and Supergirl:<br />
Luthor’s Deep-Sea Danger</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jay Albee and Teo Duarte</i> <small>(Stone Arch Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The world’s finest heroes.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Adventures of Batgirl and Supergirl:<br />
Two-Face and the Fusion Confusion</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Laurie S. Sutton and Sarah Leuver</i> <small>(Stone Arch Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The dynamic duo.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Marvel Super Stories, Book One</b></font><br />
<i>by various creators</i> (Abrams) <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
15 new six-page stories, featuring favorites like Black Panther, Spider-Miles Morales, Shang-Chi, Captain America, Ms. Marvel, and Squirrel Girl!<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Action Journalism</b></font> with Kate Kelly,<br />
<i>by Eric Skillman and Miklos Felvideki</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
What if Lois Lane was like James Bond? The five issues of the monthly comic, collected into a trade paperback.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>A D V E N T U R E</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Spy Camp:<br />
A Spy School graphic novel</b></font>,<br />
<i>art by Stuart Gibbs and Anjan Sarkar</i> <small>(Simon and Schuster)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A spin-off of the popular <i>“Spy School”</i> series.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Dog Man 11:<br />
Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dav Pikey</i> <small>(Graphix)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The canine hero and his Supa Buddies must thwart the schemes of Piggy.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Batcat, Book 1</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Meggie Ramm</i> <small>(Amulet Books/ Abrams)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Why be a bat or a cat when you can be both? Win-win.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Luna and the Treasure of Tlaloc</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joe Todd-Stanton</i> <small>(Nobrow Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ 5-9</font><br />
The fifth title in the <i>‘Brownstone Mythical Collection’</i>; Luna has to choose between selfishness or friendship.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S L E U T H</b></font></center><br />
<br />
P H O T O<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>InvestiGators:<br />
All Tide Up</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Patrick Green</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The two alligators in a giant robot headquarters solve crimes.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>InvestiGators presents:<br />
Agents Of S.U.I.T.</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Patrick Green and Christopher Hastings</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cilantro the Chameleon has to earn her spy bonafides.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Mason Mooney:<br />
Supernatural Sleuth!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Seaerra Miller</i> <small>(Flying Eye Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In book 3, the paranormal investigator discovers another dimension.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S C H O O L</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Four Eyes</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rex Ogle and Dave Valeza</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Can Rex see himself through the maze of 6th grade?<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Mexikid:<br />
A Graphic Memoir</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Pedro Marin</i> <small>(Dial Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 1977, a Mex-Am boy goes on a funny family adventure to Mexico.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Parachute Kids</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Betty Tang</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Newly arrived from Taiwan, can sis and bro grok the culture shock of California?<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S C I E N C E</b></font></center><br />
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<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Scientists Are Saving The World!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Saskia Gwinn and Ana Albero</i> <small>(Abrams)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ Age 6-9</font><br />
Today’s real-life scientists tackle time-travel, singing whales, snail spying, and more.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Cryptid Kids, Vol. 1:<br />
The Bawk-Ness Monster</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sara Goetter and Natalie Riess</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Can Penny find the half sea serpent/half chicken who once saved her life?<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Science Comics:<br />
Electricity, Energy In Action</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Andy Hirsch</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
How does electricity power the world?<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Science Comics:<br />
Frogs, Awesome Amphibians</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Liz Prince</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Betcha didn’t know that Frogs can eat with their eyes and soak air through their skin.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Science Comics:<br />
The Periodic Table Of Elements,<br />
Understanding the Building Blocks of Everything</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Andy Hirsch</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Learn the secrets of the 118 substances which build everything that exists.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>What Happens Next?<br />
Science Fair Frenzy</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jess Smart Smiley</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
You try to win the Science Fair and you get halls full of lemons and the Sunbright Muck Man.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Green Girls</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Loic Nicoloff (w), and Antoine Losty, Alberto Zanon, and Roberta Pierpaoli (a)</i> <small>(Graphic Universe)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Young girls band together to save the planet with ecology.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Another Band’s Treasure</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Hua Lin Xie (trans. Edward Guavin)</i> <small>(Graphic Universe)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
When poor youth in Paraguay can’t buy instruments, they make their own and form an orchestra.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Young Katherine Johnson</b></font>,<br />
<i>by William Augel</i> <small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The youth of the NASA computer scientist, famous from the film HIDDEN FIGURES <small>(2016)</small>.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S C I - F I<br />
+ T H R I L L E R S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Grace Needs Space</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Benjamin A. Wilgus and Rii Abrego</i> <small>(Random House Graphic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Can Grace navigate outer space while finding her place between her moms?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Mabuhay!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Zachary Sterling</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Filipino kids discover that homeland folklore is real when supernatural beings threaten their family.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Shelley Frankenstein!:<br />
Vol. 1, Cowpiggy</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Colleen Madden</i> <small>(IDW / TopShelf)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Shelley longs to make scary creatures that her friends don’t always consider adorable.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>The Last Kids On Earth<br />
and the Forbidden Fortress</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Max Brallier</i> <small>(Viking Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The 8th book in the series about young teens fighting zombies, which is now an animated Netflix TV show.<br />
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<center><small><i>Grace Needs Space</i>; <i>Mabuhay!</i>;<br />
<i>Hilda</i></small></center><br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>F A N T A S Y</b></font></center><br />
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In a reversal, episodes of the popular Netflix animated series HILDA are being adapted into books. ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>HILDA and the Laughing Merman</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson, Stephen Davies, Sap Lendario</i> <small>(Nobrow Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ 7-11</font><br />
<i>"Hilda"</i> adventures are smart and funny stories of a young girl exploring a fantastic countryside with pluck and heart.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>HILDA and the Faratok Tree</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson, Stephen Davies, Sap Lendario</i> <small>(Nobrow Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>HILDA and the Fairy Village</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson, Stephen Davies, Sap Lendario</i> <small>(Nobrow Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>HILDA’s World:<br />
A Guide to Trolberg, the Wilderness, and Beyond</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson+</i> <small>(Nobrow Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A handy guide to everyone’s favorite magical village.
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Bone:<br />
More Tall Tales</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski(w), and Jeff Smith and Katie Cook, Matt Smith, and Scott Brown (a)</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Jeff Smith’s whimsical Fantasy series <i>Bone</i> is a hailed favorite, in the classic vein of Kelly’s <i>Pogo</i> comic strip and Carl Barks’ <i>Duck Tales</i> stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Bea Wolf</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<i>“Beowulf”</i> retold as kids, for kids.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Sprite and the Gardner</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rii Abrego and Joe Whitt</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A sprite reclaims the ancient hereditary talent of gardening.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Leigh Luna</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Five animal kids skip school for an island trek, and learn more lessons than they bargained for.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Flavor Girls #1</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky</i> <small>(Archaia Studios Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
If you love <i>“Sailor Moon”</i>, this collection of the first three issues of the Magical Girls’ monthly comic is for you.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Ultralazer</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Pauline Giraud, Maxence Henry, and Yvan Henry</i> <small>(Fairsquare Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Can the forest planet be saved from the buzzards from space?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Doña Quixote:<br />
Rise of the Knight</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rey Terciero and Monica M Magana</i> <small>(Henry Holt and Co.)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Was her grandfather delusional, or is it possible she can be a knight protecting the world from dragons too?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Breath of the Giant</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom Aureille</i> <small>(Fairsquare Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
There’s a far land where you might be able to cheat death.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Skull Cat and the Curious Castle</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Norman Shurtliff</i> <small>(Top Shelf)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The cat could be a gardner if all these spooky mysteries at the castle would stop.<br />
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<center><h1><font size="6"><font color="ffffff">Y o u n g A d u l t :<br />
<b>13 - 18</b></font></font></h1></center><br />
<br />
<font color="33ccff">This section is organized by themes.</font><br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S T A R<br />
W A R S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Star Wars:<br />
Hyperspace Stories</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various creators</i> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font color="33ccff">✔ Rated T for teen</font><br />
A collection of the first four issues of the monthly comic, with new adventures throughout the whole history.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Star Wars:<br />
Dawn of the Jedi - ‘Into the Void’</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tim Lebbon</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A prose novel set at the early beginnings of the Jedi, where young inititiate Lanoree must confront her evil brother.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Star Wars:<br />
Hunters: Battle for the Arena</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Oshiro and Andie Tong</i> <small>(Little Brown and Company)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A prose book with some illustrations, this video game tie-in story explains the backgrounds and aspirations of the arena fighters.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>M A R V E L</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Shang-Chi<br />
and the Quest for Immortality</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Victoria Ying</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
At 12 years, the martial arts student begins to see a wider world outside the family palace, and deeper truths about his ambitious father.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Shuri:<br />
Symbiosis</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Eric Wilkerson</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The third prose book adventure of the new Black Panther, after <i>‘Shuri’</i> <small>(2020)</small> and <i>‘The Vanished’</i> <small>(2021)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <b><font color="ffcc99">Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur:<br />
Menace On Wheels</font></b>,<br />
<i>by Jordan Ifueko (w), and Alba Glez, Jose Marzan Jr, and Lorenzo Ruggiero (a)</i> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
For fans of the Disney+ animated show: this trade paperback collects the latest five-issue monthly comic series about science genius Lunella and her dinosaur partner’s adventures.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>D C</b></font></center><br />
<br />
The DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults series of standalone books continues.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Girl Taking Over:<br />
A Lois Lane Story</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sarah Kuhn and Arielle Jovellanos</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Teen Lois knows she’s going to be a powerhouse journalist, and frenemies, internships, and bad bosses won’t stop her.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Melissa Marr and Jenn St-Onge</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A fun spin on <i>“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”</i>, starring the mercurial Harley Quinn.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Static:<br />
Up All Night</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lamar Giles and Paris Alleyne</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Static Shock is now the teenage Static, zapping through supervillains and high school.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>A D V E N T U R E</b></font></center><br />
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<center><small><i>Pink Lemonade</i>;<br />
<i>Grand Slam Romance</i>; <i>Homunculus</i></small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Adventure Zone, Vol. 5:<br />
The Eleventh Hour</b></font>,<br />
<i>by The McElroys with Carey Pietsch</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Based on the podcast, the relic hunters have to find Time itself.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Pink Lemonade</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nick Cagnetti and Don Simpson</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All six issues in one trade paperback. Pink Lemonade is like a luchadora/parade float on a motor scooter, up against the Orange Juice robot. Pop fun!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Cuckoo</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joe Sparrow</i> <small>(ShortBox)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Dorothy wants to be an artist, but odd memories of a meteor have some connection to her gaining superpowers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Grand Slam Romance, Vol. I</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous</i> <small>(Surely Books/ Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Softball competition, magic girls, and romance/rivalry.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Out There</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Seaerra Miller</i> <small>(Little Brown and Company)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
It’s the Roswell festival, and Julia is beginning to doubt her obsessed father was once abducted by aliens.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Homunculus</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joe Sparrow</i> <small>(ShortBox)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The scientist and her sentient computer struggle to understand a world that can’t understand them.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>F A N T A S Y</b></font></center><br />
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P H O T O<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Dragon Prince:<br />
Puzzle House</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Aaron Ehasz, Justin Richmond, and Nicole Andelfinger; art by Felia Hanakata</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In the third book, Claudia has to master her sorcery to unlock the puzzle tower’s secrets.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Deya Muniz</i> <small>(Little Brown and Company)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The Princess disguises herself as a man for her inheritance, before falling in love with another princess.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Ink Girls</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marieke Nijkamp</i> <small>(Greenwillow Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A journalist and a princess work together to expose a corrupt kingdom.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>Y O U T H</b></font></center>
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Baby-Sitters Club #1-7<br />
Full Color Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ann M. Martin / adapted by Raina Telgemeier</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A second printing of seven books, illustrated by the wildly popular Telgemeier.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Squished</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Avery wants a break from her six younger siblings, a room to herself to think and make art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Disney and Pixar’s<br />
‘Turning Red’:<br />
4 Town, 4 Real</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dirchansky and KAlfee</i> <small>(Viz Media)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For fans of the celebrated animated film TURNING RED <small>(2022)</small>, this new sequel focuses on the boy band 4 Town, done in manga style.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>R O O T S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Courage To Dream:<br />
Tales of Hope in the Holocaust</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neal Shusterman and Andres Vera Martinez</i> <small>(Scholastic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Five stories lace together to show a bigger picture of hope and resistance against oppression.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>American Born Chinese:<br />
Movie Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Gene Luan Yang</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Now a Disney+ live-action mini-series! Who’s the unusual exchange student at school, and what connection does he have to Monkey King folklore?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Family Style:<br />
Memories of an American from Vietnam</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Thien Pham</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A refugee odyssey from Vietnam and Thailand to California, told through rich memories of food and meals.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Layers, A Memoir </b></font>,<br />
<i>by Penelope Bagieu (trans. Montana Kane)</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The author bares her teen diaries in all their cringey greatness.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Complete ‘Persepolis’:<br />
20th Anniversary Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marjane Satrapi</i> <small>(Pantheon Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Both volumes in one book. A true memoir of escaping Iran’s fundamentalism, and finding one's promise in France.<br />
The source of the critically acclaimed animated film PERSEPOLIS <small>(2007)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Festival Of Shadows:<br />
A Japanese Ghost Story</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Atelier Sento: Cecile Brun and Olivier Pichard</i> <small>(Tuttle Publishing)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Can the village girl save the ghost boy before time runs out?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Lost In Taiwan</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Crilley</i> <small>(Little Brown and Company)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Paul is all whatever about visiting Taiwan, until he gets lost in a new world that changes him.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Esther’s Notebooks</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Riad Sattouf</i> <small>(Pantheon Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
What seem like breezy anecdotes of a young girl in France quietly add up to a candid portrait of the hopes and hurdles of modern youth.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Austin Paramore; art by Sarah Bollinger and Marika Cresta</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The middling musician needs to free a Jazz master’s soul by creating the consummate song.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Akim Ailu:<br />
Dreamer</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Greg Anderson Elysee and Karen De la Vega</i> <small>(Graphix)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
With heritage from Ukraine/Nigeria/Canada, Akim faces bias in all of them while striving to be a hockey player.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Us</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sara Soler</i> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Fall in love, change your gender, define your own path.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>The Talk</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Darrin Bell</i> <small>(Henry Holt and Company)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Youth are endangered by the bigoted and the violent in society. Parents try to protect them by making them aware of the obstacles they will face.<br />
The author won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2019.<br />
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Resources:<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.comicshoplocator.com/" target="_blank">Comic Shop Locator</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://bookshop.org/" target="_blank">BookShop.org</a><br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.kidscomics.com" target="_blank">Kidscomics.com</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/" target="_blank">School Library Journal: Good Comics For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/12/20/21029548/best-comics-for-kids-graphic-novels" target="_blank">50 Best Comics + Graphic Novels For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com" target="_blank">The Big Blog Of Kids' Comics!</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://www.europecomics.com/comics-for-children/" target="_blank">European Comics For Children</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens" target="_blank">13 Great Webcomics For Kids and Teens</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Souls Of Black Folk:<br />
A Graphic Interpretation</b></font>,<br />
<i>by W.E.B. Du Bois / Paul Peart-Smith</i> <small>(Rutgers University Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Du Bois’s classic sociology essay, which exposed and questioned intrinsic segregation bias in the United States, is enacted here in moody ink and watercolor panels.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Prophet</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kahlil Gibran / A. David Lewis and Justin Renteria</i> <small>(Graphic Mundi)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Gibran’s ruminations on human life - physical, spiritual, philosophical- in narrative form.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Slaughterhouse-Five</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kurt Vonnegut / Ryan North and Albert Monteys</i> <small>(Archaia)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The 1969 anti-war classic, unfolding in mosaic memories, with touches of speculative fiction.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Watership Down:<br />
The Graphic Novel,</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Richard Adams / Joe Sutphin</i> <small>(Ten Speed Graphic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Adam’s popular allegorical saga of rabbits surviving the perils of the English countryside and their own kind.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Sophie’s World:<br />
A Graphic Novel about the History of Philosophy:<br />
Vol. II, From Descartes to the Present Day</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jostein Gaarder / Cincent Zabus and Nicoby</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Continuing the visual adaptation of Gaarder’s global bestseller, in which a Norwegian teen learns the history of Philosophy.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◼</font> <font color="33ccff">Reexamining history and repression.</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>No Surrender</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Constance Maud / Sophie Rickard and Scarlett Rickard</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Maud’s 1911 novel revealed the struggles for women’s voting rights in England, and inspired the spread of the movement.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Bodyguard Unit:<br />
Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and Jujitsu</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Clement Xavier and Lisa Lugrin</i> <small>(Graphic Universe)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Martial artist Garrud taught the original 1910s Feminists how to protect themselves against the physical abuse of cops and mobs.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Last On His Feet:<br />
Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi</i> <small>(Liveright)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
As the first African-American heavyweight champion, Johnson challenged all bigoted boundaries in 1910s America, and was punished for it at every turn.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Now Let Me Fly:<br />
A Portrait of Eugene Bullard</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ronald Wimberly and Brahm Revel</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The life challenges of the first African-American fighter pilot.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Undesirables:<br />
A Holocaust Journey to North Africa</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber</i> <small>(Stanford University Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Vichy government of France cooperated with the Nazis, and extended the Holocaust in their colonial African camps.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>We Are On Our Own</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Miriam Katin</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A mother and daughter struggle to escape Hungary under Nazi occupation.<br />
(A reprinting of the 2006 memoir.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Resisted, Arrested, Deported:<br />
The Concentration Camp Memoir of Francine R.</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Boris Golzio (trans. Ivanka Hahnenberger)</i> <small>(Naval Institute Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The true chronicle of a woman enduring every hardship of the Holocaust, trying to find her sister.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Irmina</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Barbara Yelin</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A London man and German woman’s love is torn apart by discrimination during the rise of Hitler.<br />
(A reprinting of the 2016 memoir.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>We’re All Just Fine</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ana Penyas</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The true story of the creator’s grandmothers, who lived under Spanish fascism and then on into liberation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>I Saw It:<br />
A Survivor’s Story of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Keiji Nakazawa</i> <small>(Last Gasp)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Nakazawa (<i>'Barefoot Gen'</i>) was a child who experienced the horrors of nuclear annihilation firsthand.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>40 Men and 12 Rifles:<br />
Indochina 1954</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marcelino Truong</i> <small>(Arsenal Pulp Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An artist is forced to fight beside Communist rebels in a war he opposes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Vanni:<br />
Based on Firsthand Account of the Sri Lankan Conflict,</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock</i> <small>(Graphic Mundi)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After the 2004 tsunami disaster, a family ricochets through refugee camps during a national civil war.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Still Alive:<br />
Graphic Reportage from Australia’s Immigration Detention System</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Safdar Ahmed</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A journalist illustrator exposes the corrupt detention of refugees down under.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Listen, Beautiful Marcia</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marcello Quintanilha (trans. Andrea Rosenberg)</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A suspense story of a poor nurse trying to save her teen daughter from gang violence in Rio.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Hamid And Shakespeare,<br />
The Tragi-Comic Journey of a Refugee</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mahid Adin</i> <small>(Myriad Editions)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A refugee from Iran tries to find parity in Britain through his love of Shakespeare.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Diaries Of War</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nora Krug</i> <small>(Ten Speed Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 2022, an undercover Ukrainian journalist and Russian artist document the war between their countries.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>This Country:<br />
Searching For Home In (Very) Rural America</b></font> <small>(Princeton Architectural Press)</small>,<br />
<i>by Navied Mahdavian</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
After a San Fran artist starts a dream life in the Idaho outback, he comes to grips with family issues and social division.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◼</font> <font color="33ccff">Indie stories.</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Monica</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Daniel Clowes</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One woman, many angles, different styles. From the creator of <i>‘Ghost World’</i> and <i>‘Art School Confidential’</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fungirl:<br />
Vulva Viking</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Elizabeth Pich</i> <small>(Silver Sprocket)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In this second one-shot, everyone’s favorite lesbian patriarchy-smasher/chaos-engine wreaks more well-intended havoc.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Great Beyond</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lea Murwiec</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A satire of uptown status climbers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b><a href="https://meanwhileanthology.com/" target="_blank">Meanwhile…</a>:<br />
A Comic Shop Anthology</b></font>,<br />
<i>by ed. by Kevin Sharp and Ryan Higgins; Various Creators</i> <small>(Comics Conspiracy Inc.)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A collection of stories about comic shops, fans, and creators done by themselves.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◼</font> <font color="33ccff">Biographies.</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Liberated:<br />
The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kaz Rowe</i> <small>(Getty Publications)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Surrealist performance artist used her radical essays and self-portraits to champion fluid identity in the early 20th Century. <br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Anais Nin:<br />
A Sea Of Lies</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Leonie Bischoff</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Partners in trysts and erotic literature, Henry Miller was a yob while Anais Nin was a poet.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Frida Kahlo</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Francisco de la Mora</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<a href="https://selfmadehero.com/" target="_blank">SelfMadeHero</a> prints visual biographies of great creators which emulate their styles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Armed With Madness:<br />
The Surreal Leonora Carrington</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Surrealist painter, comrade of Kahlo and Varo, endured Fascism, drug therapies, and asylums while channeling her dream visions.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>MS Davis:<br />
A Graphic Biography</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Amazing Ameziane and Sybille Titeux de la Croix</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Angela Davis transformed the Black Panthers, modern Feminism, and academia with her tireless activism.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Buildings Are Barking:<br />
A Diane Noomin Memoriam</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Bill Griffith</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Griffith (Zippy The Pinhead) honors his late life-partner with this retrospective of Noomin’s countercultural comix.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◼</font> <font color="33ccff">Music biographies.</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Mingus</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Flavio Massurutto and Squaz</i> <small>(NBM)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Charles Mingus’ improv bass playing propelled every progressive form of Jazz in the mid-20th Century.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Golden Voice:<br />
The Ballad of Cambodian Rock’s Lost Queen</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Gregory Cahill and Kat Baumann</i> <small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Ros Serey Sothea dared to sing Pop and Rock songs in the ’70s, and then the Khmer Rouge came for her.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pete Townshend’s<br />
Life House</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Pete Townshend / James Harvey, David Hine, Max Prentis, and Mich Gray</i> <small>(Image)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Who tried to follow up <i>“Tommy”</i> <small>(1969)</small> with the ‘Life House’ project, a communal multimedia experience meant to literally free the soul. Though it collapsed in the strains of ambition, the classic <i>“Who’s Next”</i> album staggered out from the ruins.<br />
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This graphic novel, at 12"x12" album size, tells the original epic as it was envisioned.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Starman:<br />
Bowie’s Stardust Years</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Reinhard Kleist</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Another graphix bio of David, focused on his early fame in the Glam years.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Prince In Comics</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nicolas Finet and Tony Lourenco; various artists</i> <small>(NBM)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An overview of Prince’s life and music.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>In Search of Gil Scott-Heron,<br />
The Godfather of Rap</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Thomas Mauceri and Seb Piquet</i> <small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The spoken word/Jazz artist defined the political zeitgeist in the early-’70s, only to spiral out into mysterious limbo.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Hip Hop Family Tree:<br />
The Omnibus</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ed Piskor</i> <small>(2013-’17)</small> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
All four volumes of Piskor’s hilarious and happening history of Rap in one big volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Stewdio:<br />
The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Chuck D</i> <small>(Enemy Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Like many great musicians, Chuck D (of Public Enemy) started out in art school and maintains his innovative explorations.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◼</font> <font color="33ccff">Dream visions.</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Night Eaters:<br />
Her Little Reapers, <small>(Night Eaters Book #2)</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <small>(Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Somehow the bestselling author and the Goth artisan have time to create this horror series while doing their ongoing <i>“Monstress”</i> comic.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Sons Of El Topo, Vol. 3</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jose Ladronn</i> <small>(Archaia Studios Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Famed film director Jodorowsky continues his graphic novel sequels to his classic film EL TOPO <small>(1970)</small>, with excellent cinematic art by Ladronn.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Norse Mythology, Volume 3</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell</i> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The lyrical author and the Nouveau virtuoso storm the gates of Valhalla.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Mysteries</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Bill Watterson and John Kascht</i> <small>(Andrews McMeel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Watterson (<i>Calvin and Hobbes</i>) returns from the ether with a mysterious fable for adults.<br />
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<center><h1><b><font color="ffe300">B E S T</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">C O L L E C T I O N S
+ R E I S S U E S :</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">2 0 2 3</font></b></h1></center><br />
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<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1940s</font></b><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Terry And The Pirates, Vol. 4 <small>(1938)</small><br />
Terry And The Pirates, Vol. 5 <small>(1939)</small><br />
Terry And The Pirates, Vol. 6 <small>(1940)</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Milton Caniff</i> <small>(Clover Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
If early comic strips <small>(1900-'20s)</small> had been rough and slapstick, writer/artists like Caniff, Foster (<i>Prince Valiant</i>), and Raymond (<i>Flash Gordon</i>) brought maturity into the medium with complex adventures and illustrative flair.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Dauntless Dames:<br />
High-Heeled heroes Of The Comic Strips</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Trina Robbins and Peter Maresca</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
No one has done more to duly spotlight female creators and characters in comics history than Countercultural comix artist/herstorian Trina Robbins.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Quality Comics:
The Spirit, Vol. 1</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Will Eisner and Lou Fine</i> <small>(1944-’46)</small> <small>(PS Artbooks)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Eisner’s <i>The Spirit</i> comic sections, first published weekly in Sunday papers, are the gold standard of the industry.<br />
Less known is a parallel monthly Quality Comics title with art by the great Lou Fine. This reprints the first four issues.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Will Eisner’s THE SPIRIT<br />
Artisan Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Will Eisner</i> <small>(1946-’50)</small> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<i>Artisan Editions</i> are the affordable softcover versions of the hardback <i>Artist’s Editions</i>.<br />
This book reproduces photos of the actual art pages, covering some of the greatest comic art ever made.<br />
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<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Plastic Man, Vol. 1 <small>(1944-’46)</small><br />
Plastic Man, Vol. 2 <small>(1946-’47)</small><br />
Plastic Man, Vol. 3 (<small>1947-’48)</small><br />
Plastic Man, Vol. 4, <small>(1948-’49)</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jack Cole</i> <small>(PS Artbooks)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cole stretched out from the Will Eisner studio with his uniquely absurdist slapstick.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Planet Comics, Vol. 16</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Various creators</i> <small>(1947-’48)</small> <small>(PS Artbooks)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The Science Fiction anthology series often alternated from imperiled to empowered women blazing the spaceways.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1950s</font></b><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <b><font color="00cc00">EC ARCHIVES:</font></b><br />
<br />
The remastered EC Comics Hardcovers are now being re-released as affordable Softcover editions, proceeding in order.<br />
<br />
<b><font color="00ffbf">Vault Of Horror</font>, Vol. 3<br />
<font color="00ffbf">ShockSuspense Stories</font>, Vol. 3<br />
<font color="00cc00">Weird Fantasy</font>, Vol. 1, 2<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Weird Science</font>, Vol. 2<br />
<font color="00cc00">Two-Fisted Tales</font>, Vol. 1,</b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<br />
These early-'50s comics redefined maturity in the medium, launched great writers and artists, electrified readers, and terrified conservatives. Essential.<br />
➤ see also: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america/9780312428235" target="_blank">"The Ten Cent Plague"</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Best of Simon and Kirby’s<br />
Mainline Comics</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby</i> <small>(1954)</small> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
For a brief time, the storied creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby produced their own comics line of westerns, war, crime, and romance.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1960s</font></b><br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Uncle Scrooge, Vol. 28:<br />
Cave Of Ali Baba</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Carl Barks (+ Daan Jippes)</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
More classic stories, including one never published in the US.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four #2<br />
Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four #3</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> <small>(1963-’64)</small> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Marvel Comics begins, and defines itself, right here in the first years of the bellwether team.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Penguin Classics Marvel Collection:
Fantastic Four</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> <small>(Penguin Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A collection of first year issues and mid-period issues, in both hardcover and softcover versions.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fantastic Four:<br />
The Coming Of Galactus, <small>Epic Collection</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> <small>(1966)</small> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This is precisely when Marvel Comics got epic, ushering every cosmic saga that followed.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marvel Comics Library:<br />
Silver Surfer</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, John Buscema +</i> <small>(1968-’70)</small> <small>(Taschen)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The former herald of Galactus goes rogue, existential, noble, and romantic.<br />
This giant-sized volume collects the first 18 issues, plus a later Lee/Kirby reunion tale.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Archie Decades:<br />
The 1960s</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Various creators</i> <small>(Archie Publications)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Archie Comics found and defined themselves with the style and design sense of artist Dan DeCarlo.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><font color="00cc00">Creepy Archives</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Creepy Archives</font>, Vol. 2<br />
<font color="00cc00">Creepy Archives</font>, Vol. 3<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Creepy Archives</font>, Vol. 4</b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<small>(1964-’66)</small> <small>(Dark Horse)</small><br />
Free of the oppressive strictures of the Comics Code Authority, these horror magazines for adults from Warren Publishing summoned the spirit of EC Comics.
Great stories by Goodwin, Binder, and Orlando, with art by Frazetta, Toth, Morrow, Ditko, Kane, and Severin; the testing ground for upstarts like Colan, Wrightson, and Adams; and some well-deserved revenge by EC stalwarts like Orlando, Crandall, Davis, Williamson, and Krenkel.<br />
<br />
<b><font color="00cc00">Eerie Archives</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Eerie Archives, Vol. 2</font></b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(1966)</small> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The companion to Creepy magazine, with more stories and art by luminaries like those listed above.<br />
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<center><small>Top: Jordi Longaron, art;<br />
Bottom: Purita Campos, art</small></center><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>A Very British Affair:<br />
The Best Of Classic Romance Comics</b></font>,<br />
<i>curator David Roach, editor Olivia Hicks; various creators</i> <small>(1950s-’70s)</small> <small>(Rebellion)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Besides being a trove that shakes up the established Brit comics narrative, this surprising collection gives overdue limelight to fine artists like Vicente Roso, Jordi Longaron, and Purita Campos.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1970s</font></b><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Avengers:<br />
Kree/Scrull War, <small>Gallery Edition</small></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams +</i> <small>(1970)</small> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Thomas’ complex writing and Adams’ astonishingly realist art produced the most seismic cosmic event in Avengers history, which is still reverberating through the MCU screen versions today.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Blade, The Early Years<br />
Omnibus</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, and Tom Palmer +</i> <small>(1974)</small> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Out of the pages of the classic <i>“Tomb Of Dracula”</i> comic came the AfroPunk rebuttal to vampirism and colonialism… Blade, the vampire slayer.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth,<br />
Vol. 2</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer</i> <small>(1974-’76)</small> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A youth threads though a future dystopia of talking animals and hyper-tech in the remainder of Kirby’s longest running DC series.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Den</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Richard Corben</i> <small>(1970s)</small> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
If John Carter and Tarzan had been nearly nude, Den went the full monty, adventuring boldy in the buff next to all the naked women in <i>Heavy Metal</i> magazine.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Legends of the Dark Knight:<br />
Jose Luis Garcia Lopez</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez +</i> <small>(’70s-’80s)</small> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Lopez’s command of the dynamic human form and clear, monumental storytelling is a master class.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1980s</font></b><br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Destroyer Duck<br />
Graphite Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Various Creators</i> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Writer Steve Gerber sued Marvel Comics over the copyright of <i>“Howard The Duck”</i>. Many comics industry creators supported him with five benefit comics, here reprinted in the original pencil form.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neal Adams Vault</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neal Adams +</i> <small>(1980s)</small> <small>(Continuity)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After championing creators’ rights in the ’70s, comics’ greatest realist launched his own Continuity Comics line in the mid-‘80s. Here are rarities.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Bill Sienkiewicz’s<br />
Mutants and Moon Knights… and Assassins</b></font>, Artisan Edition<br />
<i>by Bill Sienkiewicz +</i> <small>(1980s)</small> <small>(IDW Artist’s Editions/Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Combining Neal Adams’ realism with Bob Peak compositions and Ralph Steadman ink slashes, ‘Sin-KEV-Itch’ became the most progressive comics illustrator of the decade.<br />
This is the affordable softcover <i>Artisan Edition</i> reissue of the 2018 hardback <i>Artist's Edition</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bloom County Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984!<br />
Bloom County Library, Vol. 3: 1984-1986!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Berkeley Breathed</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Combining the humane zing of <i>“Peanuts”</i> with the collegiate politics of <i>Doonesbury</i> and dashes of surrealism, Breathed moved the needle forward in comic strips.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Ballad Of Halo Jones:<br />
Full Colour Omnibus Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson</i> <small>(1984)</small> <small>(2000 AD)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Told in three parts, a young woman in a <i>“Metal Hurlant”</i>-style future goes from naive teen to revolutionary.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Absolute<br />
‘V For Vendetta’</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alan Moore and David Lloyd</i> <small>(1982, 1988)</small> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This subversive satire, like a hybrid of Orwell's <i>"1984"</i> and Weisel's <i>"Night"</i>, dealt a hammer blow to Thatcher’s fascistic Britain.<br />
And it still does, to oppressive regimes resisted by cyber-revolutionaries worldwide.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Miracleman:<br />
The Complete Original Epic</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alan Moore; art by Gary Leach, Alan Davis, John Totleben +</i> <small>(1982-1988)</small> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The first post-modern superhero.<br />
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In 1982, writer Alan Moore and artist Gary Leach (followed by Alan Davis) dared to make superheroes more realistic than ever, with all the personal crises and global repercussions that came with that. Published in the UK magazine Warrior, the underground revolution set off by <i>Marvelman</i> rippled out to change comics forever.<br />
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By the mid-‘80s, Alan Moore was a superstar in the US with the explosive success of <i>Swamp Thing</i> and <i>Watchmen</i>. Sideways, he crafted three ‘book’ arcs of the re-christened <i>Miracleman</i> for an indie comic company, Eclipse. The third book arc, <i>‘Olympus’</i>, crafted with the great illustrator John Totleben, took the superhero concept to a philosphical maturation that no one can match.<br />
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Many don’t know this because Eclipse was itself blotted out by a bankruptcy that kept these vital texts out of print for aeons. This is why the most important advance in hero history draws blank stares from those coming in late. Regardless of ignorance, quality is timeless, and this total compilation of all three arcs in softcover form is 100% essential.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">1990s</font></b><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Prince Valiant, Vol. 27:<br />
1989-1990</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy and Cullen Murphy</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The Murphys took over the art from Foster, who continued to write and research the long-running series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Question, Vol. 2</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan</i> <small>(1989-’97)</small><br /> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
If Ditko’s original ‘60s hero was a cipher of Rand-ian absolutism, O’Neil slyly transformed the revived investigator with Persig-ian zen queries.<br />
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IDW publishes <i>Artist’s Editions</i>, which collect photo shots of the original artwork printed at actual size.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Michael Golden’s<br />
Marvel Stories Artist’s Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Golden +</i> <small>(1986-)</small> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Golden hit his mature style in the mid-’80s, blending Kirby and Ditko dynamics with Wrightson body language and Mead design.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kevin Nowlan’s<br />
Marvel Heroes Artist’s Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kevin Nowlan</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Nowlan perfectly merges naturalism and stylization in a sleek hybrid like no other.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Walter Simonson’s<br />
Fantastic Four Artist’s Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Walter Simonson +</i> <small>(1990)</small> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Having rejuvenated <i>“Thor”</i> to spectacular success (still reflected constantly on the page and screen), Simonson brought that cosmogonic magic to the first family.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Collected Toppi, Vol. 9:<br />
The Old World</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sergio Toppi </i> <small>(Lion Forge)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
There may be no one better at merging graphic design and fine illustration. Buy every volume for higher learning.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Sergio Toppi Gallery:<br />
All The World's Glory</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sergio Toppi</i> <small>(Magnetic Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A compilation of Toppi's portraits of historical figures and celebrities, from the ancient past to the modern era.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">◯</font> <b><font color="33ccff">2000s</font></b><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <b><font color="00cc00">Tom Strong Compendium</font></b><br />
<i>by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse, + many guests</i> <small>(1999-2006)</small> <small>(DC/Wildstorm)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Alan Moore brought literate maturity to comics in the ‘80s, which lesser talents corrupted into hyper-violence. When these polar opposites got foolishly conflated with the generic term ‘Dark’ in the ’90s, he quipped the script by revising the Silver Age with his positive America’s Best Comics line.<br />
This series streamlines Tarzan, Doc Savage, Superman, and Reed Richards into one clean-line avatar, a noble hero welding the best past into a better futurism.<br />
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This 900+ page volume (!) collects all 36 issues together.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Top 10 Compendium</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alan Moore and Zander Cannon + Gene Ha</i> <small>(1999-’09)</small> <small>(DC/Wildstorm)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The <i>'Hill Street Blues'</i> of superheroes, with supercops haplessly policing a world of the empowered.<br />
Under the sterling plots and astounding art, you’ll find the deepest homage to the entire history of comics and comic strips one could ever relish.<br />
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This 800+ page volume (!) collects everything -all issues, mini-series, and the prequel graphic novel- together.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Shazam!:<br />
Power Of Hope</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Paul Dini and Alex Ross</i> <small>(2000)</small> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Naturalist painter Ross did large-size treasury books homaging the 60th anniversaries of the Big 4, including <i>“Superman: Peace On Earth”</i> <small>(1999)</small>, <i>“Batman: War On Crime“</i> <small>(1999)</small>, and <i>“Wonder Woman: Spirit Of Truth”</i> <small>(2001)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Blankets:<br />
20th Anniversary Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Craig Thompson</i> <small>(2003)</small> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
20th?! They grow up so fast. Here’s the Eisner Award winner’s breakthrough testament to teen love.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Madman:<br />
The Madmaniverse Library, Vol. 4</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mike Allred</i> <small>(2007)</small> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A sequential omnibus of the acclaimed <i>“Madman”</i> series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Air,<br />
Vol. 2, 3, and 4</b></font>,<br />
<i>by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker</i> <small>(2008)</small> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Before becoming the primary force defining Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Wilson wrote this political thriller/speculative fiction series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Absolute<br />
‘The Sandman: Overture’</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III</i> <small>(2013)</small> <small>(Vertigo)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A deluxe 10th anniversary treatment of Gaiman’s return to his emblematic character, with peerless illustration in all styles by Williams (<i>Promethea, Batwoman, Echolands</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Wonder Woman Historia:<br />
The Amazons</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kelly Sue DeConnick; art by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, Nicola Scott</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
DeConnick (architect of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) wrote three volumes reframing Amazon history, with each tableaud by a premier illustrator.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Superman:<br />
Space Age</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Russell and Mike Allred</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Set on an alternate world just before <i>Crisis On Infinite Earths</i> <small>(1985)</small>, this wry tribute to the Silver Age races headlong into apocalypse with one of the most poignant endings possible.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Story of Disney:<br />
100 Years of Wonder</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Baxter, Bruce Steele, and the staff of Walt Disney Archives</i> <small>(Disney Editions)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Lavish retrospective of one of the most important and influential creative houses ever.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Cliffhanger!:<br />
Cinematic Superheroes of the Serials: 1941-1952</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Christopher Irving </i> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
As soon as heroes were on the page, they were on the radio and the big screen. Learn about the original wave of dauntless adventurers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>American Way:<br />
A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler</i> <small>(Simon and Shuster)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A prose book revealing an untold true story that intersects Holocaust refugees, early DC Comics, and Hollywood.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Asian Political Cartoons</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John A. Lent</i> <small>(<a href="https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Asian-Political-Cartoons" target="_blank">University Press of Mississippi</a>)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This vital history of artistic resistance covers 22 Eastern countries from then to now, with abundant illustrations.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Alter Ego<br />
Collector’s Item Classics:<br />
King-Size Bullpen Tribute</b></font>,<br />
<i>by ed. Roy Thomas</i> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Lee, Kirby, Ditko.<br />
Collecting Alter Ego magazine’s major interviews and articles about the three powerhouses of the Marvel bullpen, in one volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>I Am Stan:<br />
A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom Scioli</i> <small>(Ten Speed Graphic)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A comics bio about the comics plotter/writer/editor/huckster. Bring salt.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>All Of The Marvels</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Douglas Wolk</i> <small>(Penguin Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Now in softcover; Wolk read every single Marvel comic in release order so that you could just read this witty summary.<br />
Continuity! Themes! Meaning!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Super Hero’s Journey</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Patrick McDonnell</i> <small>(<a href="https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/super-heros-journey_9781419769108/" target="_blank">Abrams Marvel Arts</a>)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A personal memoir of early Marvel’s effect on the author, drawing his life interwoven with the classic stories themselves.<br />
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<center><small><i>Bottom: <i>Arzak</i> by Moebius</i></small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Genius, Illustrated:<br />
The Life and Art of Alex Toth</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell</i> <small>(IDW Publishing)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A retrospective of the lauded artist/animation designer, covering his influential work for many comics and film companies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Tits And Clits<br />
1972-1987</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Various creators</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The first Underground Comix were notably sexist, until female creators struck back with their own. This collects all seven incendiary issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Moebius’ Little Pantheon:<br />
Arzak</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Moebius</i> <small>(Moebius Production)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Everything <i>Arzak</i> that the liege of Ligne Claire ever made, in one huge volume.<br />
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<center><small>Top: <i>"Quiet Down There!"</i> (1927),<br />
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Bottom: poster illustration by Franz Wacik</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Art Of Dean Cornwell,<br />
fourth edition</b></font>,<br />
<small>(Illustrated Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A welcome reprinting of the overview about one of greatest artists of the Golden Age of Illustration.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Franz Wacik</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Daniel Zimmer</i> <small>(Illustrated Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One of the best artists of the Golden Age of Illustration that everyone needs to catch up on.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Story Of Ernie Bushmiller:<br />
The Man Who Created <i>Nancy</i></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Bill Griffith</i> <small>(Abrams)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This deeply researched graphic novel biography also tells the birth and evolution of comic strips themselves along the way.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Ernie In Kovacsland</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ernie Kovacs</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Ernie Kovacs was light years ahead of everybody, doing freeform conceptual slapstick on early live television. This prose bio hips you to what’s hap.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>James Warren, Empire of Monsters:<br />
The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Bill Schelly</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A reprint of the 2019 prose bio about the pioneer publisher, whose magazines from the '60s and '70s outside of the comics markets brought maturity, artistic expression, and edge back into it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Numa Sadoul</i> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Sadoul's exhaustive interviews with Jean Giraud/Moebius cover his whole career, with abundant illustrations.<br />
<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Star Wars Archives:<br />
Episodes I-III 1999-2005</b></font>, <small>(Taschen)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A voluminous trove of production photos from the Prequel trilogy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Underground:<br />
Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of Sound</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Arnaud Gouefflec and Nicolas Moog</i> <small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Some musicians do art for art’s damn sake, so get out of the way.<br />
Feed you head with culprits like Moondog, The Residents, Sun Ra, Yma Sumac, Lydia Lunch, Can, Crass, Captain Beefheart, and Patti Smith.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Laura Lipton Drawing</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Laura Lipton</i> <small>(Last Gasp)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Lipton’s massive pencil and charcoal murals reflect on the human condition with a caustic, unflinching eye.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>100 Manga Artists<br />
Bibliotheca Edition</b></font>, <small>(Taschen)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This expands out the previous book <i>“Manga Design”</i> with many more noteworthy creators.<br />
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MAGAZINES</b></font></h1></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ALTER EGO</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The original '60s comics fanzine that pioneered all of modern fandom, with deep stories on the Golden and Silver Age creators, is an ongoing mag still edited by Roy Thomas.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Alter Ego</a>
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BACK ISSUE!</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Dedicated to the '70s and '80s renaissance.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A treasury-sized magazine covring all things Kirby, from rare art to new tributes.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_57" target="_blank">Jack Kirby Collector</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ILLUSTRATION</b></font><br />
<small>(The Illustrated Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The best illustrators celebrated by the smartest illustration mag.<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.theillustratedpress.com/" target="_blank">Illustration</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>RETROFAN</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everything pop cultural from the '60s through the '80s.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_152" target="_blank">Retrofan</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>COMIC BOOK CREATOR</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Interviews and overviews of all the great Comics creators, past and present.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_132&zenid=92187u79herb4bsbjrltp9o0m7" target="_blank">Comic Book Creator</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>THE COMICS JOURNAL</b></font><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The premiere scholastic graphic arts forum, now printed in an annual volume.<br />
➤ <a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/the-comics-journal/products/the-comics-journal-309"target=_blank>The Comics Journal</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MAD Magazine</b></font><br />
<small>(EC/DC)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
More carefully curated cultural caricatures, from the usual gang of idiots!<br />
➤ <a href="https://www.dc.com/mad" target="_blank">MAD Magazine</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>STAR TREK Explorer</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"These are the voyages..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-trek-magazine" target="_blank">Star Trek Explorer</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>STAR WARS INSIDER</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"An energy field created by all living things..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-wars-insider" target="_blank">Star Wars Insider</a><br />
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<font color="ffbf00">M O V I E S + T V</font></b></h1></center><br />
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<center><font color="ffffff">▣ </font> <b><font color="33ccff">Live-action films:</font></b></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHORTCOMINGS</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>BARBIE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>INDIANA JONES And The Dial Of Destiny</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE LITTLE MERMAID</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ANT-MAN 3</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE MARVELS</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHAZAM! 2: Fury Of The Gods</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE FLASH</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</b></i></font>, short film ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BOY AND THE HERON</b></i></font> ⇩<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SUZUME</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NIMONA</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: Across The Spider-Verse</b></i></font> ⇩<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NIMONA</b></i></font><br />
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<center><font color="ffffff">▣ </font> <b><font color="33ccff">Live-action TV series:</font></b></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Loki</b></i></font>, Season 2 ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>American Born Chinese</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>I'm A Virgo</b></i></font>, Season 1 ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>Doctor Who</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Pantheon</b></i></font>, Season 2 ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>Adventure Time: Fionna And Cake</b></i></font>, Season 1 ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Hilda</b></i></font>, Season 3<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur</b></i></font>, Season 1<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Scott Pilgrim vs. The World</b></i></font>, Season 1<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>What If?</b></i></font>, Season 2<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Blue Eye Samurai</b></i></font>, Season 1 ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#6699ff"><i><b>Star Trek: Lower Decks</b></i></font>, Season 4<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#99bbff"><i><b>Star Wars Visions</b></i></font>, Season 2 ⇧<br />
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P H O T O<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://sarahcandersen.com/" target="_blank"><b>SARA'S SCRIBBLES</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Sara Andersen</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Absurdist doodles in four panels with brainy zing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gemmacorrell.com/"><b>GEMMA CORRELL</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Gemma Correll</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
It's like therapy and hilarity in one frothy shake!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="fffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/nancy" target="_blank"><b>NANCY</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Olympia Jaimes</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Under a psuedonym, someone is upgrading the classic strip's mindtricks for the digital age.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/"><b>TOM TOMORROW</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Tom Tomorrow</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A kind of digital love-child of Trudeau and Breathed, this long-running satire of political insanity is a panacea.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://thenib.com" target="_blank"><b>The Nib</b></a> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
RESIST!<br />
Although the site has recently ceased new work, it still contains an archive of the best contemporary editorial satire, from an array of talents.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive" target="_blank"><b>PRINCE VALIANT</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Schultz (<i>Xenozoic Tales</i>) and Yeates (<i>Timespirits</i>) are doing excellent work continuing Hal Foster's masterwork into the 21st century.<br />
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From you, we exist.<br />
Because of you, we persist.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Jack Bender<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Joe Giella<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Steve Skeates<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Al Jaffee<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> John Romita Sr<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Keith Giffen<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Dan Green<br />
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<center><b><font color="ffbf00">Nuff said, pilgrim.</font> <font color="ffe300"><i>Excelsior!</i></font></b></center><br />
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<hr /><hr />Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-65506830956428889032023-02-27T23:34:00.073-08:002024-01-22T09:58:58.927-08:00ANDOR, The New Revolution<br />
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The ambitious TV series <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> brings new maturity to the <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> saga. Not a space romp, nor a video game or memory lane, but a devastating war allegory told more intensely and honestly than before. It reveals the secret past of Cassian Andor, a mercenary who will come to be an important rebel in the film <font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font> <small>(2016)</small>.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>, a prequel which is set just before the original 1977 film, not only mines all of the edge and craft embedded in the Original Trilogy, but reflects the deeper sources for its cinematography, political themes, and ambitions.<br />
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With the extensive photos that follow, rediscover the roots of the <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> creative style in a new light, and how <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> stems them audaciously forward.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">1- The Roots</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">2- Cinematography</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">3- Sociopolitical</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">4- Dichotomy</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="#C5">5- Rebel</a><br />
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<center><small>Art graphic by <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com" target="_blank">Tym Stevens</a></small></center><br />
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<center><small>(NOTE: This article will refer to the first film as STAR WARS, as it was known during the New Hollywood cinema era discussed.)</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff"><i>T H E R O O T S</i></font></font></b></center><br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“One choice. We win, or everybody dies. Starts now.”</i></font><br />
- Vel Sartha<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> FLASH GORDON <font size="2">(1936)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> <small>(1977)</small> reconciled an evolutionary span in Sci-Fi, wedding the zappy space opera of FLASH GORDON <small>(1936)</small> and the Pulp mags to the mature art of <font COLOR="ffffff">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</font> <small>(1968)</small> and New Wave Science Fiction literature.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">P U L P +<br />
G O L D E N E R A S</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"A Princess Of Mars"</i> <font size="2">(1917)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> The debut of both Buck Rogers, and Space Opera<br />
(cover story), in <i>Amazing Stories</i> <font size="2">(Aug, 1928)</font></small><br />
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<i>“A Princess Of Mars”</i> <small>(1912)</small> blueprinted modern Science Fiction.<br />
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First printed as episodes in a pulp mag, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ serial chapters about the first outer-space adventurer, <b>John Carter of Mars</b>, were later compiled into a 1917 book. While Verne and Wells had prospected the general concepts of the genre, ERB’s dashing hero polished them up for the new century: a displaced adventurer with extraordinary physical abilities on a desert world, caught up in alien culture clashes. Burroughs rethought this into the smash success of Tarzan, while the John Carter concept inspired everything that followed, including Superman, <i>“Stranger In A Strange Land”</i>, <i>“Dune”</i>, <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>, and AVATAR.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> BUCK ROGERS <font size="2">(1939)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>Buck Rogers</i> #1 comic <font size="2">(1940)</font></small><br />
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<b>The Pulp Era</b> <small>(1920s-‘30s)</small> cloned John Carter into Buck Rogers, a spaceship traveler fighting cosmic wars, jumping from pulp story to comic strips to radio shows. His superior rethink, Flash Gordon, helped turn comic strips into fine art while conquering the movie screen.*<br />
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<small>* (The space hero clone chain continued on with Martian Manhunter, Duck Dodgers, Adam Strange, Green Lantern, Perry Rodan, Captain Kirk, Den, Nova, Han Solo, Galatia 9,<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-bang-of-starstruck-roots-and_08.html" target="_blank">></a> Buzz Lightyear, Jonni Future, Mal Reynolds, Captain Marvel, Poe Dameron…)</small><br />
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In the <b>Golden Age</b> <small>(1936-1946)</small> the newly-named genre of Science Fiction came of age, advancing across Pulp mags, Sunday comics pages, radio waves, silver screens, and comic books, while inspiring the very first ‘fandom’, the first convention, and the first costume-play. This was the era of Space Opera, with robust heroes in rocketships hopping planets in laser battles.<br />
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Across that span, there were other visionary movements in motion. Political concerns about the new century galvanized dystopian <b>literature</b> like Zamyatin’s <i>“We”</i> <small>(Russia, 1924)</small>, Huxley’s <i>“Brave New World”</i> <small>(England, 1932)</small>, and Orwell’s <i>“1984”</i> <small>(England, 1949)</small>. These allegories reflecting the grave issues of the real world gave literary credibility and social relevance to the speculative fiction field.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"Childhood's End"</i>, Arthur C. Clarke <font size="2">(1953)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>"Fahrenheit 451"</i>, Ray Bradbury <font size="2">(1953)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> ANIMAL FARM film <font size="2">(1954)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS <font size="2">(1956)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> FORBIDDEN PLANET <font size="2">(1956)</font></small><br />
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Some writers argue that the actual Golden Age is the 1950s, when the medium became sophisticated, mature, and mainstream, leaving the pulps behind for lit mags and technicolor flicks, hardbacks and paperbacks. The post-War stories grew sober with social issues, expansive with world-building epics, literate with the poetic or the hardboiled. The medium was becoming a <b>literature of ideas</b>, fluid with the times.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALPHAVILLE <font size="2">(France, 1965)</font></small><br />
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<b>New Wave Science Fiction<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction" target="_blank">></a></b> <small>(1960s-‘70s)</small> is where the medium went postmodern.<br />
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Any cutting-edge movement in the ’60s was called a New Wave because of the impact of the Nouvelle Vague,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave" target="_blank">></a> where French filmmakers were deconstructing the rules of making cinema; Godard’s handheld movies were loose, improvised, absurdist, sardonic, alienated, impressionistic. In the wider view, Counterculture films, books, plays, albums, comix, and art decoded all social mores with the hopeful fervor of radicals and fearless glee of kids.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"Dangerous Visions"</i> anthology <font size="2">(1967)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep"</i>,<br />
Philip K. Dick <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"Nova"</i>, Samuel R. Delaney <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"The Left Hand Of Darkness"</i>,<br />
Ursula K. Le Guin <font size="2">(1969)</font></small><br />
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While the world marveled at the Space Race, literary New Wave Science Fiction books, stories, and films were replacing Science boosterism with humanist existentialism, adventuring with inner exploration, and rational laws with enigma. They were both experimental and experiential, fluxing by turns sensual, hallucinatory, environmental, alienated, and conspiratorial.<br />
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This was also true of Fantasy. The immense intricacy and scholarship of Tolkien's <i>"The Lord of The Rings"</i> trilogy <small>(1953)</small> had redefined High Fantasy, and New Wave authors like Zelazney, Moorcock, Le Guin, and McCaffrey began blending Science Fiction, social commentary, world mythology, and the experimental into their Fantasy works.<br />
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Precisely as New Wave paperbacks infiltrated drugstore spinners and campus bookstores, the tsunami hit. <font COLOR="ffffff">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</font> <small>(1968)</small> turned Science Fiction into cinema art. It was the dividing line between Before and After for all <b>speculative fiction</b> in every medium.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY -<br />
The tribal 'Dawn Of Man' and...<br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> ...the future tech...<br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> ...are combined on <i>Andor</i> in this moment.</small><br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">2001</font> is told with the clinical distance of a space launch, even as it hums with a surrealism which unnerves. It is a science psalm whose cathedral is the universe, building into an hallucinatory orgasm that opens the beyond.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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Also in 1968, Samuel R. Delaney wrote <i>“Nova”</i>, a seeming dichotomy of Space Opera spliced with New Wave, a duality mistaken then as a fluke which actually templated the future.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">M E T A L<br />
H U R L A N T</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"The Long Tomorrow"</i>, Moebius <font size="2">(1975)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>"Nikopol"</i>, Inki Bilal <font size="2">(1980)</font></small><br />
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Underground Comix transcended with <i>“Metal Hurlant”</i> magazine.<br />
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In Paris, artists Jean Giraud ('Moebius') and Philippe Druillet realized that trippy head comix by Crumb could dream higher into boundless vision epics on par with Kubrick, Tolkien, and Castañeda. Launched in 1974, the adult fantasy anthology mag was the New Wave as hallucinogenic travelogues improvised freestyle, a skewed dream of Punk futurism, wanton eroticism, desert vision quests, and illustrative genius. (It was later repackaged in the United States as <i>“Heavy Metal”</i>.)<br />
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The work of Moebius and Druillet was often a hybrid of Science Fiction and Fantasy and dreams (and trips). In the egalitarian ethos of the counterculture, all borders were dissolved between nations, people, genres, and styles. Every hybrid bred new possibilities.<br />
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<small> 'Used Universe' -<br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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The Russian auteur Tarkovsky hated Kubrick's clean vison of the future, and his film SOLARIS <small>(Russia, 1972)</small> emphasized the gritty, the ruined, and the unknowable. The corroded dystopias and film noir fatalism of Moebius and Inki Bilal’s illustrated stories reflect this with their decrepit prefab cities, greasy and flaking and hostile, and their international serfs trudging through funky squalor.<br />
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Their '<b>used universe</b>' aesthetic would become manifested everywhere in STAR WARS, from Tattooine to Coruscant’s underground. It directly influenced all SF films after Punk Rock, from ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, and MAD MAX, to THE FIFTH ELEMENT, GHOST IN THE SHELL, and FURY ROAD. (It also bridged Delaney's <i>"Nova"</i> to the rise of CyberPunk.)<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">S T A R<br />
W A R S</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> Some Roots of STAR WARS -<br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> METROPOLIS <font size="2">(Germany, 1927)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD <font size="2">(1938)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>Planet Stories</i>, ft. Leigh Brackett <font size="2">(1951)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> HIGH NOON <font size="2">(1952)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE DAM BUSTERS <font size="2">(1955)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>Incredible Science Fiction</i> comics <font size="2">(1955)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE HIDDEN FORTRESS <font size="2">(1958)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, w/ Alec Guinness <font size="2">(1962)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> DR. WHO film, w/ Peter Cushing <font size="2">(1967)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>Metal Hurlant</i> <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>Monark Starstalker</i> <font size="2">(1976)</font></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> <small>(1977)</small> is a prism of everything that came before it.<br />
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Thesis and Antithesis are always superseded by Synthesis. George Lucas grew up through all of modern pop culture: Golden Age kid, late-’50s teen, late-‘60s film grad, New Hollywood director. He was Saturday serials, all-day movie bills, Screwball romances, rowdy Westerns, cartoon slapstick, War sieges, Golden Age TV, Silver Age comics, Rock’n’Soul platters, drag racing, civil rights marches, Arthouse cinema, New Wave SF books, campus demonstrations, Message pictures.<br />
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Initially, he was supposed to debut directing John Milius’ 1969 script for APOCALYPSE NOW, an apostasy calling out the latest holy war as a black comedy while it was happening and on location(!). But this was beyond their clout and funds, and it went to glory later with Coppola. The horror of war always sparks the creative backlashes against it: Modernist literature, which sought to sever the rote past by embracing complexity and change, ran parallel to World War I; modern cinema reached bracing maturity in the bitter aftermath of World War II; and all the worldwide film New Waves, and their heir the New Hollywood, raced concurrent with Vietnam. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_1968" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Oppression breeds rebellion.”</i></font><br />
- Luthen Rael<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE EMPIRES STRIKES BACK <font size="2">(1980)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i> <font size="2">(1992)</font></small><br />
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Lucas was concerned with the antidote to war and the solution for prosperity. It’s in the anti-technocracy of his debut, THX-1138 <small>(1971)</small>; the rebellion against the Empire in <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>; and the global humanity caught in the crossfire of WWI in the visionary <i>“The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”</i> TV series <small>(1992)</small>.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> synthesized all of his cultural roots and spiritual concerns together. And it was the precisely timely hybrid that the public needed, fusing the swashbuckling fun of Golden Age serials with the mature craft of post-Kubrick Sci-Fi statement films. It was great art and you could dance to it.<br />
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With the passage of time, new fans of the branching <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> franchise may lose touch with all these roots. The films are literally about cultural handoff by generations, so an understanding of its origins are the keys to appreciating its real worth and future potential.<br />
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Without cultural context, new <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> media is in danger of becoming a shooter game or a nostalgic möbius strip. The films and shows since 2015 know this, and their success comes from reconsidering what’s come before to open up what hasn’t been done yet. Inherent in this is how they have reassessed the roots and techniques that it all came from.<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> ROGUE ONE <font size="2">(2016)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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The prequel film <font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font>, and its own prequel TV series <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>, are a new maturity in the saga, stripping out redundance and honing the cinematography, relevancy, and innovation inherent in the original film for new possibilities in the present.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola,<br />
and George Lucas</small><br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“You just walk in like you belong.”</i></font><br />
— Cassian Andor<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">N E W<br />
H O L L Y W O O D</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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The ‘70s <b>New Hollywood</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood" target="_blank">></a> filmmakers were ’60s film students who had absorbed all of the movements of film: ’10s Silent slapstick; ‘20s German expressionism and Russian montage; ‘30s and ‘40s Golden Age Hollywood, and post-War Neorealism; the cinemascope spectacles and the mature global films of the ‘50s; and the cinéma vérité and experimental international (and sociopolitical) New Waves of the ’60s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave#See_also" target="_blank">></a> The Counterculture auteurs saved Hollywood exactly as it was falling apart in the early-'70s, making commercial films that were also fine art.<br />
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The cinematography for <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> <small>(1977)</small> by Gilbert Taylor blended the bright adventure of Classic Hollywood flicks, the widescreen spectacle of ‘50s period epics, the cavalier deconstruction of New Wave films, the impressionism of Arthouse, and the studied symmetry of Kubrick.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> has specifically routed these sources to amplify and expand on them. Now, to be clear, other <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> new media -whether in films, shows, animateds, books, or comics- have done fine work in reflecting the fundamentals of the saga, while bringing fresh inspiration to it. Where is <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> different? In focus, tone, and outlook.<br />
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The original <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> is not actually Science Fiction, but more accurately a Space Fantasy. It combines classic SF adventurism and postmodern edge with major tenants of Fantasy, with sorcerors, knights, a princess, a fellowship on a quest, swordfights, mysticism, and more. It is as much <i>"The Fellowhip Of The Ring"</i> <small>(1953)</small> as it is FLASH GORDON SAVES THE UNIVERSE <small>(1940)</small> or THE HIDDEN FORTRESS <small>(Japan, 1958)</small>. The three Trilogies and their spin-off media consistently reflect those Fantasy elements with their lens on the Jedi versus the Sith.<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">• • •</font> ROGUE ONE <font size="2">(2016)</font></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font> changed this. It stripped the Fantasy out, dropped from the stars to the streets, put the background dregs into the foreground leads, running breakneck cinéma vérité style behind normal masses battling tyranny and hopelessness. It was the war heists of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE <small>(1961)</small> and THE DIRTY DOZEN <small>(1967)</small> if they'd collided with the political chaos of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS <small>(1966)</small> and THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY <small>(1982)</small>.<br />
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The best way to understand George Lucas' politics clearly is to watch <i>“The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”</i> TV series <small>(1992-'96)</small>: it denudes <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> to its true inspirations from history, using World War I to clarify his rejection of oppression and bigotry, and championing of inclusion and pacifism. The episode <i>"Verdun"</i> was the most intensely anti-war statement shown on television at that point, analogous to Remarque's <i>"All Quiet On The Western Front"</i> <small>(1930)</small>. <font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font> and <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> are the scion of this, confronting the harsh reality of the war through the lives of the ordinary and forlorn. It reframed the revolution as coming from the common first, no longer in the abstract but as the story itself. No longer a grand fable about knights (Jedi) and ronin (Mandalorians), but a candid novel about the serfs. The betweens who are actually everyone. Focus, tone, outlook.<br />
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While other <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> media reference the fantastical trunk of itself, the realist perspective of the <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> series reviews the history of the origins to bring an original new view.<br />
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R A T I O</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">• • •</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font></small><br />
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With <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</a>, Kubrick became a graphic formalist. He (and cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth) used centered medium shots with dynamic symmetry to arrest the eye. By holding the shots for long periods, he created tension and uncertainty that engaged the viewer more intently. He made each composition an experience.<br />
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Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s film established both the new look and the tone for 1970s speculative fiction films: cool to the touch, startling to the eye, unsettling to the mind. Lucas’ THX-1138 <small>(1971)</small> was one of the first, and the influence cascaded through classic films like Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS <small>(1972)</small>, Trumbull's SILENT RUNNING <small>(1972)</small>, Scott’s ALIEN <small>(1979)</small>, and Hyams’ OUTLAND <small>(1981)</small>.<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">• • •</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK <font size="2">(1980)</font></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> reflects Kubrick often by using center ratio balance, such as within the clinical geometries of the Empire to emphasize its despotic austerity and constriction.<br />
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(The film also homages the panoramic vistas of Freddie Young’s shots for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA <small>[1962]</small>.)<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">• • • •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Most <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> productions repeat this composition technique generally, but <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> remembers where it comes from, exercising it in the service of distinct feels as much as sharp visuals, like Kubrick would have done. The series vibrates more with the cascading moodiness of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE <small>(1971)</small> than with the clean remove of <font COLOR="ffffff">2001</font>.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Tyranny requires effort. It breaks. It leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.”</i></font><br />
-Karis Nemik<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> ROLLERBALL <font size="2">(1975)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE PARALLAX VIEW <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Counterculture directors of the New Hollywood films <small>(mid’ 60s-early ‘80s)</small> used architecture to describe oppressive modernity. Conspiracy thrillers and dystopia films particularly used contemporary buildings as sculptures of cold power.<br />
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The Empire is all chilly geometry, devoid spaces whose only design and function is for domination, populated by abject staff. A prison pretending to be a temple. Contrast this with the funky factory town on Ferrix where Cassian grew up, a gritty bazaar of brick and stucco teeming with bustling workers, snaking pipes, clutter and clatter, and food steam. A serfdom which is actually a community.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> Moebius<br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> Moebius<br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Moebius and Bilal drew decaying cities of rough tenements, sterile housing blocks, and stacked apartment crypts for the working class, versus the decadent penthouses and retreats for the rich.<br />
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This ran parallel to the acidic New Wave-era writings of William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, and J.G. Ballard.<br />
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Dan O'Bannon and Moebius’ influential 1975 story, <i>“The Long Tomorrow”</i> (shown above), had direct stylistic influence on designs and concepts in <font COLOR="4bd5ee">THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK</font>, BLADE RUNNER, and PROMETHEUS.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> SOLARIS <font size="2">(Russia, 1972)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> LOGAN'S RUN <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Pleasantly shaped spaces can take on a cold practicality with those who are using them. Open becomes empty, elegant featureless, clean dead.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> METROPOLIS <font size="2">(1927)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <i>"The Long Tomorrow"</i>, O'Bannon + Moebius <font size="2">(1975)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"The Incal"</i>, Jodorowsky + Moebius <font size="2">(1981)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Like the skyscrapers of Lang’s METROPOLIS, Moebius’ modular stacks are laced by a labyrinth of bridges and tunnel halls. <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> connects the flanks of its heptagon prisons with similar corridor arms.<br />
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<small>(see also: the underground world of Coruscant)</small><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> DR. STRANGELOVE <font size=“2”>(1964)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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A practical geometry in a conference space paces out equal seating, yet is loaded with the ambitious tensions between the seated. It feigns equality while masking hierarchy.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE PARALLAX VIEW <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> MARATHON MAN <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Modern architecture is meant to be a clear diagram of mutual ascent. Viewed in conspiracy thrillers, the basilicas of bureaucracy are a vast emptiness fueled by servitude.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALIEN concept art by Ron Cobb <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> OUTLAND <font size="2">(1981)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The white plastic modularity of post-Kubrick futurism is pre-fab functionality for general use, made for longevity and work, without concern for hominess or comfort. These stark spaces lend themselves to feelings of displacement, alienation, confinement.<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Much like Hopper’s paintings, people within such spaces can seem like ciphers in an indifferent showroom, looking for a sense of place.<br />
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L I G H T</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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In contrast to artificial spaces, filming in natural light among wide nature opens everything up, feels alive, connects the person to the organic and the tangible, frees the mind for reverie and the possible.<br />
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Much of the power of the Original Trilogy came from being filmed in spectacular locations or in large fully-constructed sets. After the extensive use of green screen and CG used in the Prequel Trilogy <small>(1999-’05)</small> for its imaginary locations, many lauded the Sequel Trilogy <small>(2015-’19)</small> for returning to natural and physical environments.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> DELIVERANCE <font size="2">(1972)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> AMERICAN GRAFFITI <font size="2">(1973)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> BOUND FOR GLORY <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> DAYS OF HEAVEN <font size="2">(1978)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Notably, <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> always films in subdued natural light under cloudy skies. It’s not the bright intensity of Tattooine or Jakku, but instead always muted and overcast. (The exception being the sunny resort planet, which is the point.) This underlines the spiritual mood of a story about underdogs trying to escape the shadow of the Empire.<br />
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‘70s cinematographers like Haskell Wexler <small>(BOUND FOR GLORY, COMING HOME, DAYS OF HEAVEN)</small> and Vilmos Zsigmond <small>(DELIVERANCE, HEAVEN’S GATE)</small> are acclaimed for their capture of natural light with its haze, murkiness, mood, or colors.<br />
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L I G H T</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">• •</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> films traditionally start in space, flinging the viewer into the middle of explosive drama and goosing them to keep up. But <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> opens in a bright light, the camera pivoting sideways from the streetlamp into a wide shot of a night bridge, the far city impressionistic smears in the rain. Immediately, you are told that this is BLADE RUNNER instead, preparing you for the tone, look, and edge of another kind of story than we’re used to seeing here.<br />
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At its heart, <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is a Film Noir, which will also open it to becoming a heist, a thriller, and a breakout.<br />
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Also true to Noir films, the series strips everything flashy back to the gritty basics: no Fantasy or the Force, less Space Opera and aliens, all human spiritual conflicts, a sardonic tone threaded by wry humor, and clipped dialogue that reads like Beat playwrights.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“I don’t have lately. I have always. I have a constant blur of plates spinning, and knives on the floor, and needy, panicked faces at the window, of which you are but one of many.”</i></font><br />
- Kleya Marki<br />
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<font COLOR="ffe300"><i>“I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts.”</i></font><br />
- Luthen Rael<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“There is darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here, and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.”</i></font><br />
- Maarva Andor<br />
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Actors in Science Fiction films from the '30s on up spoke like they were on stage. One of the innovations of the 1977 <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> -often hailed at the time- was that everyone was yelling at each other like a modern Altman film, with casual inflection and breezy phrasing. Luke talked like Cali sunsets, Han like Okie dust, Leia like L.A. sass (by way of London). With cinema performances now routinely naturalistic, this performance revolution in Sci-Fi gets forgotten. <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>'s embrace of the hardboiled, the lyrical, and the pensive in its dialog newly attunes the frequencies of the saga.<br />
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There is a similar bandwidth shift in the soundtrack. John Williams' immortal scores for the Original Trilogy were heraldic anthems, in the mode of '30s Adventure film scores by Korngold and Steiner. But Nicholas Britell's soundtrack for <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> takes its cues more from Vangelis' synth-futurism score for BLADE RUNNER, with moody chamber strings, serial music tones, and industrial tympani builds. While Kevin Kiner brought global music textures to Williams' style with his scores for the <i>'Clone Wars'</i> animated series, Britell goes awol from Classical nouveau into tech-noir.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL <font size="2">(1951)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> CHINATOWN <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Director Ridley Scott followed his breakthrough ALIEN <small>(1979)</small> with the future-noir of BLADE RUNNER <small>(1982)</small>; Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography combined the moody lighting and intense angles of classic Film Noir with the corroded futurism of concept artist Moebius. The visual style invented ‘Tech Noir’, which has become standard in Science Fiction movies ever since.<br />
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Hitchcock’s noir films often followed ‘the wrong man’, accused of a crime that forces him to go on the run and prove his innocence. Cassian Andor is a wronged man, since his childhood, who is trying to make things right.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> DEATH OF A CYCLIST <font size="2">(Italy, 1955)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> PERSONA <font size="2">(Sweden, 1966)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font></small><br />
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Film Noir, dealing with the shadowy behavior of ambivalent people, was darkness stabbed with broken light. The light often came from slanted angles that rimmed the form, uplit the face, spotlit the eyes. Faces were cropped tight together in symbolic graphic overlaps, highlighting tension or empathy.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK <font size="2">(1980)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The use of dark and light with carefully placed actors and forms emphasizes people trying to find truth out of secrecy, or love out of isolation, or hope out of despair.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE CRANES ARE FLYING <font size="2">(Russia, 1957)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> KLUTE <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Our perception focuses primarily through our eyes, above all senses. Motion pictures are a love affair with the eye, using visuals to touch the emotions and thoughts, or seeing the souls of characters through their gaze, or challenging you about what you perceive and why.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">C H I A R O S C U R O</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"The Love Letter"</i>, by Vermeer <font size="2">(c. 1669)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> KLUTE <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE CONVERSATION <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Before Noir, before Expressionist film, there was Chiaroscuro.<br />
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Renaissance painters illumined their scenes with available light sources instead of broad lighting, focusing the eye only on what mattered for dramatic impact. In an era that only knew sunlight or candlelight, they instinctively saw this lucent focus like graphic design. Rembrandt and Carravagio works were ‘lit from within’, such as by a held candle or lantern, with everything outside the light source dropping into shadow.<br />
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Vermeer’s works were ‘lit from without’, with the sun shafting through a window into a dark room. (see also: <i>‘Better Call Saul’</i>) His people were alone in moody interiors, seen beyond door frames, with the bright world another dimension outside the glass, psychological spaces that we rorschach as isolation, outlook, or refuge.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Light can be the only tether when the subject is lost or afraid or in turmoil.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The less light, the less secure one feels in a dark and hostile environment.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> <i>"Philosopher In Meditation"</i>, by Rembrandt <font size="2">(1632)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> SOLARIS <font size="2">(Russia, 1972)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> FANNY AND ALEXANDER <font size="2">(Sweden, 1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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A window frames someone in possibility when they are in a dilemma. Sometimes the possibilities confront us with making choices we’re unsure how to quantify or face.<br />
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Soul-searching is the crux of <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>. With a disparate assortment of characters driven by motivations which fate is forcing them to sort out, this <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> story is told more like a Bergman film than a Kurosawa epic.<br />
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The origin story of Cassian Andor is also the inception of the Rebel Alliance. At this point, there isn't one yet, only a scattered array of secret factions unaware of each other or working at cross-purposes. The mutual spark between all of them is desperation. They are a possibility in darkness searching for how to quantify themselves in the light.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">D A R K N E S S</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Darkness is more than a literal space. It is the soul feeling powerlessness, fear, distance, or confusion. Like Chiaroscuro and Noir, film uses available light to define our empathy with the turning points of the story.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE HUMAN CONDITION 3 <font size="2">(JAPAN, 1961)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> APOCALYPSE NOW <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Spiritual darkness is the bleakest, a twilight of character where we can defeat ourselves or rise up for promise within reach. A hope renewed.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> DARK FURY <font size="2">(1947)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME <font size="2">(France, 1966)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED <font size="2">(1966)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE CONFORMIST <font size="2">(Italy, 1970)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE GODFATHER II <font size="2">(1974)</font></small><br />
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It’s all in how you focus.<br />
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The Golden Age of Hollywood knew how to use soft and hard focus in a single shot to center attention while creating a mood. By the ’60s, with carriable cameras and variable lens depths, New Wave cinematographers could film loosely on location like ‘40s newsreel journalists while composing with the sensitivity of painters and poets.<br />
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New Wave filmmakers, like New Wave SF writers, were expressing the experimental, the sensory, the dreamy. An impression of how things look most concerned with how that moment feels. At times, Claude Lelouche used depth of field and soft focus in A MAN AND A WOMAN like he was Monet. Vittorio Storaro shot THE CONFORMIST like a memory, hazy and tinted and elegant. His work directly influenced the New Hollywood, such as how Gordon Willis shot the GODFATHER films with chiaroscuro from ambient light.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> ZARDOZ <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK <font size="2">(1980)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Speculative fiction films are part of this impressionistic revolution. Since the late-’60s they have combined depths of focus, noir light, graphic juxtaposition of forms, natural light, and handheld looseness in ways hallucinatory, gritty, sensuous, or covert to combine realism with feeling.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">T E X T U R E</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Another aspect of film impressionism is overlaid textures. This is artful compression that blocks multiple elements into one shot overlaid on top of each other. It blends actors and actions in a dynamic visual. It also makes the flat screen dimensional and abstract at the same time.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> AMERICAN GRAFFITI <font size="2">(1973)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE CONVERSATION <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Glass barriers can become reflections of the character’s thoughts, plans, struggles.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> TAXI DRIVER <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE AMERICAN FRIEND <font size="2">(W. Germany, 1977)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> BLADE RUNNER <font size="2">(1982)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Vehicle windshields reflect cities by out-of-focus implication, and a character’s connection or disconnection from it.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR <font size="2">(1975)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Vermeer often framed his models just beyond door frames and curtains in a tight space. This textural build gave both depth and mystery to the scene. We feel like voyeurs, just turning a strange corner.<br />
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Framing foreground objects over anxious actors conveys their struggle against something threatening or intangible or tenuous.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY <font size="2">(Italy, 1966)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> JAWS <font size="2">(1975)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Looking from seclusion over a contested space gives intimate tension to a wide shot. What would have been a place setting is now framed with edgy surveillance or foreboding.<br />
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Film departments began seeding through select American universities in the mid-'60s. The '70s directors were among the first able to synthesize all of the previous 5 decades of film techniques together in revolutionary ways. Now, with film schools ubiquitous, every student blends those innovations into a century of wider techniques as a matter of literal course. The tactics outlined above are prevalent now in every film, show, music video, and even commercial. So what makes <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> so different? The substance below the styles. Everyone can do Center Ratio, but no one else is Kubrick. Many people can bring new life to <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>, but no one will confuse them with <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> because it steps back and looks from a unique frame: populist, realistic, introspective, mosaic, experimental, vérité. A new way.<br />
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The success of its innovation, its widening of the context, opens the portal for new explorations. It's now possible, going beyond the Space Fantasy parameters, to tell <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> stories about all the other aspects of the shared universe in liberated ways. Possible to make a standalone film about outskirt villagers in the mode of PATHER PANCHALI <small>(India, 1955)</small>, or the noir underground of Coruscant like it was THE THIRD MAN <small>(England, 1949)</small>. Perhaps a slapstick Droid comedy in homage to Chaplin or Tati, a struggling family drama like A RAISIN IN THE SUN <small>(1961)</small>, or an hallucinatory animated like CASTLE IN THE SKY <small>(Japan, 1986)</small>. A layered TV series in the stylistic spirit of <i>'The Wire'</i>, or <i>'Fargo'</i>, or <i>'Roots'</i>. Nouvelle Vague.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“We’ve chosen a side. We’re fighting against the dark. We’re making something of our lives.”</i></font><br />
-Vel Sartha<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> is political to its core.<br />
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It’s central mission is to empower the oppressed, learn from history and wisdom, topple dictatorships, and create peace and freedom for all in the future. Along the way, there might be fun, surrealism, explosions, and masks, but that’s sightseeing. <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> has always been about political liberation from all forms of tyranny, violence, and corruption.<br />
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It’s important to remember that <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> was filmed in 1976, reflecting film techniques, futurism styles, and topical stances contemporary with the auteurs of the New Hollywood. <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>, set 5 years before the film, treats itself as if it is filmed in the volatile and creatively rich 1971, with all of the sociopolitical edge and cinematic approaches intact.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is about adults waking up to face the nightmare destroying their lives, and summoning the courage to face it.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“You’re here until they don’t want you anymore.”</i></font><br />
- Melshi<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">T R I B A L</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> is consistently anti-Colonialist.<br />
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The Empire of the original film is as much a critique of British colonialism as of German imperialism (note the accents). Cassian’s backstory, from a forest tribe of orphans on a world strip-mined by the Empire, reinforces the saga’s respect for the indigenous, the outcast, the marginalized, and its disdain for the corporate, the militant, the pillaging.<br />
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This echoes again later, with a communal land-based people subjugated for the sake of maintaining a strategic Imperial base.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Leave it better than you found it.”</i></font><br />
- Cassian<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">E C O L O G Y</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> is ecological.<br />
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Herbert combined the desert messiahs of <i>"John Carter Of Mars"</i> and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA together for his book, <i>"Dune"</i> <small>(1965)</small>, turning space opera into <i>"Hamlet"</i>. Amid all the galactic power games, the sand people are environmentalists working to restore water and life back to the world. This intrinsic ecology is transmuted into Luke Skywalker in <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>, who was raised on a moisture farm harvesting water vapor on an arid world. Forsaken in outback nowhere, his family literally scrapes the air in a desperate bid for survival. But the poor are never far enough from an Empire that will take it all away with callous indifference.<br />
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As a boy, Cassian’s world was being strip-mined (perhaps for raw materials to build the Death Star) until everything ended in environmental disaster. The Empire takes everything and leaves nothing, because greed is omnivorous and toxic.<br />
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Speculative Fiction has always spoken truth to the times, using allegory to reflect or deflect our folly. Failing to heed it causes it. Cassian's dilemma is abut facing hard truths when he can no longer turn away.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> SILENT RUNNING <font size="2">(1972)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“We don’t allow their kind in here.”</i></font><br />
- Cantina bartender, STAR WARS <small>(1977)</small><br />
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Since <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> began, Droids have clearly been sentients with unique personalities who are mistreated as non-entities by all biological species. With laissez faire bias, they are treated like servants or pets throughout the saga. Except for a too brief exception in <font COLOR="4bd5ee">SOLO</font> <small>(2018)</small>, this slyly quiet commentary indicting bigotry has yet to be dealt with explicitly.<br />
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Stealthily, that general bias has been contrasted through the humane respect that royal Leia accords Threepio and Artoo, that young Solo feels for L3-37, that Cassian displays to B2 (and later K-2SO). This rapport brings out the souls in both.<br />
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In the spirit of <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>, a <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> TV mini-series should be made about droids struggling for their equality, the rebellion that everyone has missed.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep.”</i></font><br />
-Maarva Andor<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">B U R E A U C R A C Y</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE CROWD <font size="2">(1927)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE TRIAL <font size="2">(1962)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">THE LAST JEDI</font> <small>(2017)</small> peeled the onion to expose the callous rich who fund the Imperial takeovers. <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> reveals the clerical bureaucracy that undergirds both.<br />
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THX-1138 <small>(1971)</small>, made under the spell of Kubrick and Orwell, is a cold and antiseptic bright fascism stoked by nondescript thralls. With both of its bureaucracy and prison arcs, <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> brings that political and visual aesthetic from Lucas’ oeuvre into <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> explicitly.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“The Mon Mothma people think they know, it’s a lie. It’s a projection.”</i></font><br />
-Mon Mothma<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">• • •</font> Reflections on <i>Andor</i>: Cassian, Luthen, Kleya</small><br />
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Cassian is orphan and/or son, mercenary and/or rebel. His life has been defined by changes he couldn’t control, people he found hard to trust, leaving him fissured and guarded.<br />
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Dichotomy themes the series, bisecting it with antithetical impasses which can only resolve through synthesis. Like reality, nothing is either/or but actually and/also.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> merges Pulp and New Wave,* Kubrick and Peckinpah, Huxley and Kafka, Space Opera and Tech Noir, action and politics. Synthesis brings it more to explore, and a new experience for viewers. In daring to face the human toll of both oppression and revolution with cold sobriety, its hard honesty about desperation clarifies more than ever how a renewed hope would become so vital.<br />
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*<small>(as did <i>‘Star Trek’</i> in 1966)</small><br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">D U A L I T Y</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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The mysterious Luthen Rael is whoever he has to be in a given situation: a flinty and shrewd rebel brokering sabotage, or a courtly shop owner buttering up the rich.<br />
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He’s a rebel counter-melody to the evil Palpatine, the main film saga’s prime villain, who pretended to be a urbane politician while truly being something hard and ruthless underneath.<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE PHANTOM MENACE <font size="2">(1999)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Quietly, the character of Rael hinges the styles of the Prequel Trilogy to the Original Trilogy with his duality.<br />
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As the Coruscant businessman, he is all the high pomp and Golden Age Hollywood glamour of the prequels, a sophisticate in the NYC Art Deco futurism of the capitol planet. As himself, he is all the terse naturalism and political edge of the New Hollywood, a jaded idealist in the Leone badlands of social struggle. He literally connects the ‘30s styles of the former to the ‘70s styles of the latter.<br />
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Every aspect of <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is about dichotomy: the democracy that has been trojan horsed into fascism; Mon Mothma, balancing being a Senator and a rebel funder, a powerbroker whose personal life is coming apart; the schism between Vel and Cinta trying to be rebels as well as lovers; the rebel leaders whose jaded mistrust is turning them as callous as the enemy they fight; the double-agents, the betrayers, the in-fighters, the ambivilent; and who is Kleya, really?<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Me, I’m in propulsion.”</i></font><br />
-Willi<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">S O L O</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> reinvents itself in variations.<br />
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Cassian Andor is an alternate reflection of the Han Solo archetype, following the paths not taken. In this very, very old Western, Han is a cowboy, Cassian is indigenous. The Correllian is charming and open, the Kenari is moody and closed off. Han is the easy stride of Gary Cooper, James Stewart, and Robert Redford, while Cassian is the measured tread of Tomas Milian, Al Pacino, and Pedro Pascal. If Solo plays poker with Ford, Huston, and Peckinpah, then Andor has barfights beside Leone, Altman, and Jodorowsky. Classic Western vs. Revisionist Western. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Western" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK <font size="2">(1980)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Both are smugglers, cynics, loyal friends, pilots, fighters. Both are orphans protecting their own interests until they have to choose a higher cause.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Nobody here gives their real name.”</i></font><br />
-Hostess<br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY <font size="2">(Italy, 1966)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The man with own aims.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> Che Guevara <font size="2">(1960)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> Paul McCartney, the <i>"Get Back"</i> sessions <font size="2">(1969)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> SERPICO <font size="2">(1973)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Revolt into style.<br />
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The ultimate duality about Cassian is by implication: there is another. And she's just as important as he is. In <font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font>, which follows this, it is Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor who lead the rebellion to the crucial finish. There should be a companion prequel two-season maxi-series called <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Erso</i></font> showing her concurrent path toward their first meeting. It could have crossover elements in common involving the initial search for her, such as Saw Guerrera <small>(Che Guevara... hmmm)</small>, Mon Mothma, Kleya, and Cassian.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>"Rebellions are built on hope."</i></font><br />
- Jyn Erso, ROGUE ONE <small>(2016)</small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> is a dystopia seceding its way into utopia.<br />
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The 20th Century was big nations at war with other big nations to prevent the spread of totalitarianism. And smaller nations freeing themselves from Colonialism. And civil rights movements to empower the oppressed within all nations. Much of this came to a head from the ‘40s to the ’70s, and fueled the most advanced creativity of the times in reaction.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Can one ever be too aggressive in preserving order?”</i></font><br />
— Syril Karn<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">O P P R E S S I O N</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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In the real world, Stormtroopers were German shock troops in WWI and WWII. In <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>, they are shorthand for the fist of Empire. Their alibi is that they are there to protect and serve the public, as they herd or murder them for the overlords.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<i>“I can’t breathe.”</i><br />
- Eric Garner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_can%27t_breathe" target="_blank">></a> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police" target="_blank">></a><br />
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When Cassian is nearly strangled to death by the thug enforcer droid for simply walking around, it is a direct indictment of the police state brutality of our current world.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00">Senator Dhow: <i>“If you’re doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?”</i></font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">Mon Mothma: <i>“Well, I’m fearing your definition of wrong.”</i></font><br />
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The privileged, the contented, and the indoctrinated always turn away from suffering they are enabling. <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is about the disenfranchised people in the <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> universe, the unfortunate, the discontented, and the waking.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">C O N T R O L<br />
R O O M S</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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A subtle theme of <font COLOR="ffffff">2001</font> is that technology is a tool only as good as the user and their intent. It can be used to advance humanity or destroy it.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> ALIEN <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The fate of our world lies in the control rooms of missile silos.<br />
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Since 1945, the world has lived under the spectre of atomic annihilation. Implicity, the Death Star is the personificaton of our real nuclear fears.<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">C O N S P I R A C Y</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> Richard Nixon<br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> Palpatine in REVENGE OF THE SITH <font size="2">(2005)</font><br /></small><br />
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Conspiracy legally means a crime planned and committed by more than one person. That's not paranoia, it's just rational sense. An ultimate (and often sanctioned) extension of conspiracies is mafias, corporations, and fascism. Their downfall is activists and journalists who expose them.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> the Watergate building<br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The counterculture felt the establishment was corrupt, and they were vindicated by the Watergate scandal <small>(1972)</small>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal" target="_blank">></a> The 'leader of the free world' was exposed as a crook, and deposed. Journalism was at its peak exposing massive government crimes in this era, and conspiracy thrillers thrived: THE PARALLAX VIEW, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, MARATHON MAN, and the true story of Nixon’s fall, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN.<br />
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In <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font>, when Kleya meets Vel clandestinely, it is a direct visual homage to reporter Bob Woodward meeting his secret source “Deep Throat” in the shadowy parking garage for info disclosing the Watergate cover-up by Nixon.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> A CLOCKWORK ORANGE <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THE PARALLAX VIEW <font size="2">(1974)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> MARATHON MAN <font size="2">(1976)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is quietly a conspiracy thriller, from both sides of it. On the rebel side, there’s Luthen, Kleya, and Mon working different strata of the political landscape. On the Imperial side, there is Meero with her investigation into a possible secret rebellion, and Karn trying to track down Andor.<br />
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Amid all this suspicion, each of them mistrusts each other. Totalitarian states eat themselves with fear and hate.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is uniquely different from the other franchise media because of time. With 12 episodes per season, it has more time to be intricate, pensive, mysterious, faceted, novelistic. It is as much a political thriller as conspiracy, giving nuanced portrayals of Imperials like Meero and Karn misusing good talents for the wrong cause; complacent Senators cashing into fascism for position; Mon Mothma is the post-Padme urging compassion, while her spoiled daughter is an anti-Leia who scorns empathy for status and comfort. These are new levels of political nuance for <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“We’re cheaper than droids and easier to replace.”</i></font><br />
- Cassian Andor<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">W O R K E R S</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> METROPOLIS <font size="2">(Germany, 1927)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Orwell’s <i>“1984”</i> posited that tyranny would be inflicted on people through brutal dictatorship. Huxley’s <i>“Brave New World”</i> countered that dystopia would creep in as a shiny comfort system that people would choose. Orwell was fighting fascism, while Huxley was sizing up capitalism.<br />
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The Empire conscripts citizens into prisoners for labor, and orphans for stormtroopers. Maybe you don’t have time to read this because you have to work. (Keep going, there’s cool pictures, and possibly snacks later. Maybe with flavor, if you meet your daily quota.)<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“Everyone has their own rebellion.”</i></font><br />
- Vel Sartha<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">P R I S O N E R</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> KAPO <font size="2">(Italy, 1960)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> CHARULATA <font size="2">(India, 1964)</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">•</font> MIDNIGHT EXPRESS <font size="2">(1978)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> APOCALYPSE NOW <font size="2">(1979)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> ROGUE ONE <font size="2">(2016)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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People are in real and subjective prisons by degrees, and the realization to escape is the fuse for rebellion.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> THX-1138 <font size="2">(1971)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Rebel, resist, rise.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><i>“I’d rather die trying to take them down than die giving them what they want.”</i></font><br />
- Cassian Andor<br />
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<b><font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">R E V O L U T I O N</font></font> <font COLOR="ffffff">__________</font></b><br />
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<small> <font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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The next move is to organize and plan.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI <font size="2">(Japan, 1964)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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Then infiltrate the system.<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS <font size="2">(Italy/Algeria, 1966)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> Z <font size="2">(France, 1969)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">• •</font> <i>Andor</i></small><br />
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And galvanize the masses to stand up and fight back.<br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><b><i>“Fight the Empire!”</i></b></font><br />
- Maarva Andor<br />
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<small> <font color="ffbf00">•</font> LAWRENCE OF ARABIA <font size="2">(1962)</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> <i>Andor</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> STAR WARS <font size="2">(1977)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE LAST JEDI <font size="2">(2017) (two moons above)</font><br />
<font color="4bd5ee">•</font> THE RISE OF SKYWALKER <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font color="ffbf00"><b><i>“There will be no rules going forward.”</i></b></font><br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font> <small>(2016)</small>, a prequel taking place days before the original 1977 <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font>, had the bold courage to tell an accurate war espionage story without the brakes on. Behind the scenes, there’s been much mystery about how the acclaimed film was revised with new script and scene shoots to complete the final version. Those were overseen by Tony Gilroy, a screenwriter <small>(the BOURNE trilogy)</small> and film director <small>(MICHAEL CLAYTON)</small>.<br />
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Gilroy is the showrunner and main writer for the <font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> two-season maxi-series, a prequel set-up leading up to <font COLOR="4bd5ee">ROGUE ONE</font>. Careful not to fall into a self-referential nostalgia in danger of eating itself, Gilroy instead joins J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson by pushing the envelope of the <font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> universe with what hasn’t been explored and how far to progress it.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee">STAR WARS</font> can avoid mirroring only itself by remembering its inspirations, goals, and possibilities. Lucas was a counterculture film student who remade Saturday serials through an arthouse maturity. Now, that adult lens is returning. If the Original Trilogy was the revolution as a symbolic fable, the recent films have explored its good/evil absolutes as a nuanced ethical spectrum, with defecting stormtroopers and conflicted rebels. A war, not a video game. The messiness of reality. The anguish of repercussions. The complexity and randomness of fate. The desperation, the compromises, the toll.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is a hyperjump advance, a tale of personal crisis within an espionage epic, which includes a heist, political drama, class soap, prison break, and slave revolt. Shot like an art film, paced like a novel, felt like a nervous breakthrough. Profoundly humanist, vehemently anti-fascist, fragilely hopeful.<br />
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Catch up to the Revolution.<br />
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<font COLOR="4bd5ee"><i>Andor</i></font> is showrun by Tony Gilroy.<br />
The first season was directed by Toby Haynes, Susanna White, and Benjamin Caron.<br />
It was written by Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Stephen Schiff, and Beau Willimon.<br />
The cinematography was by Adriano Goldman, Frank Lamm, Damián García, and Jonathan Freeman.<br />
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See also:<br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/01/best-movies-tv-2022_15.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2022</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/lord-of-rings-rings-of-power-one-rules.html" target="_blank">LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power ⬤ The One Rules All</a>
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-61606437793651929012023-02-12T03:16:00.029-08:002024-01-19T16:35:21.712-08:00LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power ⬤ The One Rules All<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“Fixed upon the light that guides her,<br />
whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Finrod</font><br />
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The excellence of the <font color="ffffff">LORD OF THE RINGS</font> television series is on a new level so high that everything else seems like a school play. Everything.<br />
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The acclaimed <font color="ffffff">RINGS</font> books inspired all of modern Fantasy, the ultimate standard that others strive to reach. The ambitious new series exceeds all others with unmatchable scope and craft redefining that standard with what hasn't been done before. It challenges fandom, viewers, and the medium to include, amend, and expand.<br />
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Explore the worldbuilding, political heart, and fine art influences that propel the one show that rules above all others.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="39ac39">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">1- Worldbuilder</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ac7339">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">2- Fellowship</a><br />
<font size="6"><font color="39ac39">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">3- Vistas</a>, with Art!<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ac7339">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">4- Legendarium</a><br />
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<b>J.R.R. Tolkien</b> is the original architect of worldbuilding.<br />
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The Oxford philologist forged cosmologies, histories, genealogies, languages, lore, and maps for his Middle Earth stories, mined from deep research into European myths and tongues. Just as Shakespeare had sieved the past for his alchemical body of work, Professor Tolkien’s scholarship turned speculative fiction into literature.<br />
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Throughout human history, fable has always created literature. Our need to project ourselves as avatars in larger adventures with a moral point helps us process our experience as a people as much as as a person. It is the weaving suture which threads <i>"The Epic Of Gilgamesh"</i> <small>(Mesopotamia)</small>, <i>"The Panchatantra"</i> <small>(India)</small>, Homer's <i>"The Odyssey"</i> and <i>"The Iliad"</i> <small>(Greece)</small>, <i>"Beowolf"</i> <small>(England)</small>, <i>"Arabian Knights"</i> <small>(Middle East)</small>, and <i>"Le Morte d'Arthur"</i> <small>(England)</small>, and meshes into the tapestry of Campbell's overview of all myths/stories, <i>"The Hero With A Thousand Faces"</i> <small>(1949)</small>. Tolkien essentially took the roots of European fables and created a new <i>"Odyssey"</i> which could branch out in new expressions.<br />
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Without his inestimably influential books <font color="ffffff"><i>“The Hobbit”</i></font> <small>(1937)</small> and <font color="ffffff"><i>“The Lord Of The Rings”</i></font> trilogy <small>(LOTR, 1953)</small>, modern speculative storytelling wouldn’t exist, nor have the global credibility and popularity it enjoys.<br />
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In a creative relay, the intricacy of his worldbuilding charted the course for examples as wide-ranging as DC’s Multiverse <small>(1961)</small>, Moorcock’s <i>“Elric”</i> <small>(1961)</small>, Herbert’s <i>“Dune”</i> <small>(1965)</small>, <i>'Star Trek'</i> <small>(1966)</small>, the <i>“Dungeons And Dragons”</i> roleplaying game <small>(1974)</small>, STAR WARS <small>(1977)</small>, the <i>“Warcraft”</i> video game <small>(1994)</small>, Martin’s <i>“Game Of Thrones”</i> books <small>(1996)</small>, Rowling’s <i>“Harry Potter”</i> books <small>(1997)</small>, and the MCU films <small>(2008)</small>, among myriad. And the convergence of his passionate and articulate readers helped establish fandoms (and cosplay, fans-to-pros, and conventions) as we now know them. While sports fans have stats, creative fiction fans have worlds or omniverses.<br />
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His voluminous notes, poems, myths, short stories, essays, and personal letters of supplementary material were compiled posthumously by his son Christopher into multiple addendum books. It’s here where the rich backstory of the fabled eras before the Third Age of the books was revealed.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“I must follow the passage. The other direction.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Arondir</font><br />
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After Amazon Studios won the rights to adapt a new LOTR TV series, they chose to explore that unexplored history to distinguish the new show, with deference, from Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning film versions of the original books. Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay had the unenviable challenge of crafting a narrative story out of the myth miscellanea that could not only imitate Tolkien’s tomes but match him. They have done so spectacularly.<br />
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<font color="ffffff"><i>'The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power'</i></font> not only equals the caliber of the Jackson films, it betters them by amplifying his production craft, while expanding outward with fresh possibilities and casting.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“A dog may bark at the moon. But he cannot bring it down.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Durin IV</font><br />
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Most value progression, but some do not.<br />
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Tolkien’s underlying mantra was that education opens truth and understanding. The charm of the original book, <font color="ffffff"><i>“The Hobbit”</i></font> <small>(1937)</small>, comes from bringing the insular (suburban) Bilbo Baggins out into the wider world by exponential degrees. The more he explores, the deeper he becomes.<br />
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In this spirit, the majority of fans, viewers, and reviewers have embraced the advances of the new series as inspired and liberating. The sidelong exceptions basically break down into two groups: text purists, who are actual fans; and hostile trolls, who are not. The distinction is important.<br />
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As loyalists who care about the works, the purists have some merit when they chafe at the time abbreviation taken with the material. The TV series conflates separate events from across many years in the Second Age as happening together. But, since the cost of adapting the whole history of Middle Earth to screen in separate arcs is impractical and the compression done here is so successful, even a staunch literalist could admit these concerns are quibbles.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“…where the shadows lie.”</i></font><br />
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But then there’s the online troll, who is just a bigot taking issue with the inclusive casting. Bigotry, as the general media continually misunderstands, is not valid as an opinion or as public discourse; it is hate, the spiritual violence that erodes civilization. Trolls are the voice (or the bot) of the oppressor who’s afraid of losing grip. They are never true fans of the creative media they firebomb, but simply outside saboteurs of any advance for progress or quality or truth. When the media fails to distinguish these assassins from actual fans (or activists), the obfuscation validates the haters’ abuse. <small><a href="https://www.thegamer.com/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-quotes-right/" target="_blank">▶</a></small><br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“It darkens the heart to call dark deeds “good”. It gives place for evil to thrive inside us.”</i></font><br />
<font color="ac7339">-Galadriel</font><br />
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Tolkien had no love for wars of hate. Traumatized by his service in World War I, he directly wrote <font color="ffffff"><i>“The Lord Of The Rings”</i></font> <small>(1953)</small> as an eternal damnation of Hitler and all forms of Fascism. He had no tolerance for the tyrant, the zealot, or the mad (Sauron, Saruman, Denethor) who oppress, or for the thrall, traitor, or thug (Nazgul, Gollum, Orcs and Trolls) who follows them. His credo was that the forces of negativity will always lose to the organized positive.<br />
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➤ "<a href="https://lithub.com/on-the-time-j-r-r-tolkien-refused-to-work-with-nazi-leaning-publishers/" target="_blank">On the time J.R.R. Tolkien refused to work with Nazi-leaning publishers</a>”<br />
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<center><small>Galdriel; Arwen; Eowyn; Tauriel;<br />
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And the trolls have already lost. The precedent for inclusive casting has been set in Tolkien screen versions across two decades. Peter Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens took a progressive approach to the books in his film adaptations: positioning powerful and complicated women -Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, and Tauriel- front and center; and, in the river nexus town of the second <font color="ffffff">HOBBIT</font> film, by bringing in other complexions from the wider world outside The Shire.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“There’s common sense and nonsense. And if you’re all out of the first, then you can borrow some of mine.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Poppy</font><br />
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In the time since, inclusive casting became standard in Fantasy productions as a given, such as in THOR, <i>‘Doctor Who’</i>, <i>‘Game Of Thrones’</i>, STAR WARS, <i>‘Steven Universe’</i>, A WRINKLE IN TIME, <i>‘His Dark Materials’</i>, <i>‘The Wheel Of Time’</i>, ETERNALS, <i>’Arcane’</i>, <i>‘The Sandman’</i>, and <i>’Willow’</i>. The real world in all its rich diversity is the weaver of our fantasies, and Fantasy is bettered by reflecting our real world.<br />
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Diversity has actually always been the point. It would be a novice mistake to dismiss Tolkien’s work as ‘European’, as if this generic shorthand signified a simplistically guilty monoculture. But, like everywhere, Europe is a general region made up of many radically different and complex nations, populations, histories, and languages. It was those very differences that led to World Wars I and II. As a philologist, Tolkien translated the archetypal legends of these nations into personified species (elf, hobbit, dwarf, human, etc.), each distinct but all guided by soul. Underneath this effort, it’s as if he is trying to reconcile the real world conflicts by reminding the nations where they came from, how much unique good each has to offer, and how their unity can solve any upset. A fellowship, ringed.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“Haven’t you ever wondered, what else is out there?… I can’t help but feel there are wonders in this world.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Nori</font><br />
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Advancing through awareness of the big picture has also been a driving theme in his work. The same way in which we evolved from flat local maps to making globes, so did Middle Earth in its literal form. In the backstory, Tolkien’s world started out as a flat plain with a central continent illumed by artificial light, but was later transformed into a spherical world of varied land masses, with a sun and a moon in outer space. By linking the evolution of our actual geographical understanding to an imagined metaphysical transformation, Tolkien implied that this world would continually expand beyond myths and transform with new knowledge, just as we have grown through awareness of new continents, outer space, or other dimensions. There is always more than an illusory middle.<br />
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In the final rebuke against all isolationism, Tolkien’s delineation of the very different European cultures set the example for other worldbuilding creators to explore their own national mythologies and manifold depths. Beyond heirs from Le Guin to Martin, his example is now magnified in mythos-building Fantasy works from <a href="https://bookriot.com/african-fantasy-novels/" target="_blank">Africa</a>, <a href="https://linguistmag.com/chinese-inspired-fantasy-books/" target="_blank">China</a>, <a href="https://www.epicreads.com/blog/latinx-fantasy/" target="_blank">Latin America</a>, and the <a href="https://bibliosini.com/book-recommendations-middle-eastern-inspired-fantasy/" target="_blank">Middle East</a>. One string to spool them all.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>"Everyone, each of us, needs to decide who we shall be."</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Queen Regent Míriel</font><br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>V I S T A S</i></font></b></center><br />
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<font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> is sublime murals in an era that only understands billboards.<br />
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There are many exemplary films and series currently honed on a cinematic level. What distinguishes this one so clearly is its drive to not simply match its own legacy but expand it. This imperitive, to satisfy not just expectations but the unexplored potential, tries harder and achieves more. There is nothing on any screen as astonishingly vast, divinely composed, visonary in its revision, and poetically literate. (And it's able to do so because of Smaug's budget.)* It engages the eye, heart, and mind with the highest art and goals.<br />
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Some of the resistance to <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> comes from spectacle fatigue. What was stunning in the <font color="ffffff">LORD OF THE RINGS</font> films <small>(2001-’03)</small> has become devalued through endless repetitions or knockoffs: the CG artistry of infinite vistas, behemothic architectures, and impossible creatures is now push-button and all-pervasive in creative media. The best becomes devalued by too much of the least. Even the grand cinema screen, which once singularly embodied impact and importance, has had its eminence diluted by universal screens on TVs, desktops, laptops, smart phones, watches, lobby monitors, street ads, and app snaps. The biggest becomes devaluated by too much of the small. There are also screen adaptations of every variety of Fantasy franchise ever inked, streaming ad infinitum. At this strobed-out point, who can tell the great from the grift?<br />
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But all of this quantity can’t overrule Quality. A great story will always eviscerate imitations, excellent craft supersedes flashy clutter, and innovation fillets cliches. Quality is timeless, and lack turns to dust.<br />
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The first season of <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> is 8 IMAX films that happen to be on TV. The only real flaw hindering the series is that it is too vast for any personal screen, and every episode should have debuted on the cinema screen to be properly appreciated, like Jackson’s films had the benefit of. TV inherently reduces a scope it’s not equipped to contain, unless your TV screen is the size of a semi.<br />
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What immediately separates the series from the latest blockbuster is that its visual craft is based out of fine art. While many spectaculars seem the same because they overuse the same visual gimmicks as combat video-games, the show takes its cue from Tolkien and mines classical forms instead: classic paintings, Golden Age illustrations, tableaus, tapestries, historical textiles, architecture, and arthouse cinema.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“(Galadriel) was then of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feats.”</i></font> - <font color="ac7339">1973 letter by J.R.R. Tolkien</font><br />
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<center><small><i>"Joan of Arc"</i> (1865), John Everett Millais<br />
<i>"Joan Of Arc"</i> (1903), Charles-Amable Lenoir</small></center><br />
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Taking the cue from Tolkien, the young Galadriel of the Second Age is a warrior, the last of the Elves keeping vigilance against the rise of Sauron. She is Joan and Lancelot, armored form and steely resolve.<br />
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Morfydd Clark’s nuanced portrayal advances the character from a graceful regent on the sidelines (LOTR) to the central force of the story, ending outmoded gender conventions and advancing the breadth of what can be told and who can do it. Like Tolkien, the creators channel the lessons of history itself, such as the Norse myths of Valkyries or the varied legends of global amazons, and from the actual Agoji in West Africa.<br />
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<center><small><i>"The Little Mermaid Watches"</i> (1930), Helen Stratton</small></center><br />
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The heroes in the LOTR books traversed the continent by foot and horse, but <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> introduces us to the wide oceans beyond, with mercantile fleets and fledgling rafts, doldrums and tempests, deepwater leviathans and suspect castaways.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Wreck of a Transport Ship"</i> (c. 1810),<br />
Joseph Mallord William Turner</small></center><br />
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With an impeccable design crew and deep budget, the ocean scenes are among the most convincing and gripping yet done for a Fantasy series.<br />
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<center><small><i>“The Crimson Fairy Book”</i> (1903), Henry Justice Ford</small></center><br />
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Elves are essentially the guardian angels of Middle Earth, the closest children of the gods. Immortal, stewards to the land while destined for starlight, their beyondness makes them revered and despised by mortals.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Allegory of Victory"</i> (c. 1912), Jules Joseph Lefebvre<br />
<i>"The Girl with the Golden Wreath"</i> (undated),<br />
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As seen here, Galadriel wears bucolic gentility like a formality, but her fiery spirit cannot be quelled. She advances the potential seen in previous book characters like Arwen and Eowyn into a maturation and agency that contemporary audiences find more truth in.<br />
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<center><small><i>"The Consummation of the Empire"</i> (1836), Thomas Cole</small></center><br />
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If the Third Age was ruins in the wake of Sauron’s first rise, the Second Age is all of the civilizations at their height before that toll. <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> debuts the legendary island nation of Numenor, a paradise once hewn together by elves and mortals, and now distended by human hubris.<br />
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Ramsey Avery’s design department combined their piling Babylon with Minoan and Roman influences to evoke history and portent. It is a cosmopolitan oasis at the brink of overreach.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Work"</i> (c. 1850s), Ford Madox Brown</small></center><br />
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Trading ports are the intersection of humanity. Just as Tangiers, Macau, New York City, and San Francisco became international zones through trade and migration, so too have Lake-town (the second <font color="ffffff">HOBBIT</font> film) and Numenor become nexus hubs for all from anywhere.<br />
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The series shows us the widest range of mortals yet revealed in Tolkien’s world, reflecting the rich diversity of the human race. Purists or bigots aside, the precedent for this has always been in our history: from the intersecting national commerce of the Mediterranean or the Silk Road to China in the ancient world; to the Africans, Arabs, Bengals, and Sri Lankans (genericized as ‘Moors’) common throughout Medieval Europe. <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe#History" target="_blank">▶</a></small><br />
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The actual history of the region known as England is one of continuous incomers from all of the nations around it, from Africa and the Nordic and Eastern Europe and beyond. If the argument is that the diversity of the outside nations couldn't exist in Tolkien's world because it wasn't present in the European nations he based it on, then it is uninformed and incorrect. <small><a href="https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/by-era/AD43%E2%80%931500" target="_blank">▶</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/first-migrants-arrived-in-england-before-england-even-existed" target="_blank">▶</a></small><br />
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<center><small><i>"Spring"</i> (1894), Lawrence Alma-Tadema</small></center><br />
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Tolkien once compared Numenor to Venice, which the artisans reflect here in flowing canals and waterfalls. The mariner nation is essentially a human Olympus in the protean Atlantic Ocean, heraldic while swaying into the imperious.<br />
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<center><small><i>"The Baths of Caracalla"</i> (1881),<br />
Virgilio Mattoni de la Fuente;<br />
<i>"Richard III, Act I, scene ii"</i> (1896),<br />
Edwin Austin Abbey</small></center><br />
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With this quasi-imperial state, the series amplifies the inherent sociopolitical subtext of Tolkien’s works.<br />
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His kingdoms were allegories critiquing the proud nationalism which devolves into separatist hate and war, a blind folly that also hastens the collapse of the natural world. His themes were consistently ecological, antifascist, and egalitarian. His stories are cautionary tales for solving human abuses, from war to greed to zealotry to hatred. As such, his work and this series are more timely than ever.<br />
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(This also makes it the target of all those who are guilty of those abuses.)<br />
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<center><small><i>"Zenobia's Last Look on Palmyra"</i> (1888),<br />
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<center><small><i>"Tetes Byzantines: Brunette"</i> (1897), Alphonse Mucha</small></center><br />
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<center><small><i>"Brunnhilde From The Rhinegold And The Valkyrie"</i> (1910),<br />
Arthur Rackham</small></center><br />
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While Galadriel is a soldier and not a ruler, Queen Miriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) is the highest monarch of the mortals. The Kings of the later Third Age have been shown as despondent or mad, but by contrast she is a strongly moral leader with an iron will, tempered by enough conscience to take heed of change or peril. This is a welcome antidote to those later regents, exemplifying a brighter age that believes in possibility.<br />
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<center><small><i>"La Trappistine"</i> (1897), Alphonse Mucha</small></center><br />
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But Miriel also senses that prosperity isn’t a continuous given, or a bulwark against downfall. She’s aware of the wider world, and how solidarity helps protect everyone.<br />
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<center><small><i>"The Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer"</i> (1907),<br />
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If Elves tend the land, Dwarves foster the stone. In this earlier time we discover them anew as sculptors following the inner folds of the mountains with a spiritual respect. Later, they will lose course, hollowing out the mounts making empty cathedrals to themselves. Tolkien’s kingdoms are at their finest when selfless and honorable, but many will lose their way when they go selfish, bordered, and vainglorious.<br />
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Dwarf women have only been alluded to before, and the debut of Disa (Sophia Nomvete) refines all perception of them. She stands nobly with her partner Durin as an ally, conscience, and wry foil as dark times are augured.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Robin Hood"</i> (1932), Frank Godwin</small></center><br />
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We’re familiar with the Hobbits in the Third Age, comfortable in their suburban burrows. How did they get there? Here we meet one of their ancestors for the first time, the Harfoots, a nomadic tribe maneuvering a hostile world with crafty pluck.<br />
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True to Tolkien, they are the warm heart of the story.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Hansel And Gretel"</i> (1911), Charles Robinson</small></center><br />
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For all of his academic discipline, Tolkien instead grounded his stories in the common people, earnest and giving, naive and heartfelt, rowdy and loyal. The Hobbits were the writer at his most homey, funky, boisterous, and playful.<br />
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If the Elves are parents to nature, the Harfoots are its children. The series dresses the Harfoots braided in hay and clover, swaddled in sackcloth and berry dye, scented in river and air. They are radiant in rich saturation, dappled in sunray impressionism, nestled in hearth glows.<br />
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Harfoots are akin to the Romani, living widely and loose, fluid, fertile. They are nature mobile. While wary of the world, their adaptive durability makes them clever, mindful, and gracious.<br />
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<center><small><i>"The Lantern Bearers"</i> (1908), Maxfield Parrish</small></center><br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>"The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless..."</i></font><br />
<font color="ac7339">-J.R.R. Tolkien</font><br />
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Listening to the source himself, the series honored the material with expansive casting. Harfoots are brought to light for the first time in a refreshing global approach which includes Brit/Jamaican, Australian, Sri Lankan, Sierra Leone/Carribean, and Canadian actors. This breadth, robustly exercised in all of the series' casting, is the best advance that ever happened to Tolkien's material.<br />
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(The hobbit Sam, from LOTR, is also described as "brown" a few times.)<br />
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<center><small><i>"Idylls of the King"</i> (1913), Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale<br />
<i>"Rip Van Winkle"</i> (1905), Arthur Rackham</small></center><br />
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We’ve seen how the guileless Bilbo and Frodo provided a home and solace for a certain errant wizard. But now in the Harfoots we see what we hadn’t before with the Hobbits: women, from mentor to neophyte; a wider range of faces; some mysticism; the drive to explore (albeit, out of necessity); and their organic creativity.<br />
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The Stranger who falls from the heavens like a wayward lodestar, roused to a world he doesn’t recognize, couldn’t have found better refuge than the delightful Nori and Poppi. (And if you don’t love folks named Nori Brandyfoot and Poppy Proudfellow, you’re a pod from outer space.)<br />
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<center><small><i>"Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony"</i> (detail, 1506), Hieronymus Bosch;<br />
from <i>“The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said”</i> (1920),<br />
illustrated by Dugald Steward Walker</small></center><br />
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Let’s talk about trolls.<br />
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Tolkien fanned the array of humanity’s primal aspects across his peoples; the creative gods, the poetic Elves, the industrious Dwarves, the equivocal humans, the folksy Hobbits. But he also overlaid the array of our inhumanity across his villains: the despotic conquerors, the insane leaders, the kapo traitors, the covetous dragons, the violent orcs, the stupid trolls.<br />
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Trolls were created by the Lucifers of the story, Morgoth and his successor Sauron. They are soulless, cruel, and stupid. Drones for the evil mighty, shock troops for violence, thugs without redemption. They are the demonic in the selfish actions of humanity. They meet compassion with foolish hate, torment the decent, and toil for their manipulators.<br />
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This is why online thugs are called ‘trolls’. When a kneejerk troll bashes on <font color="ffffff"><i>"The Lord Of The Rings"</i></font>, actual fans must burst out laughing from the irony.<br />
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<center><small><i>"War"</i> (1929), Otto Dix</small></center><br />
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Cinema has always taken its visual vocabulary from the arts and photography. The Elves are lyrical art nouveau, the Harfoots are vivid impressionism, Numenor is pre-Raphaelite soft-lit majesty.<br />
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Orc carnage is brusk expressionism with its burnt ruins, slavery-hewn trenches, and strewn corpses. Scars, lashes, shards.<br />
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<center><small>IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (1962),<br />
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Cinema also reflects the visual vocabulary of itself. Imagery may have become commonplace, but iconic imagery never loses its power or meaning. In repeating an approach, success comes from bringing something more to the idea, a new feeling, another way of seeing, an unexpected meaning.<br />
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<center><small><i>“Dreaming; or, October"</i> (1928), Maxfield Parrish</small></center><br />
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Parrish’s paintings were called Neo-Classical, for using classical subject matter in a modern light. His work seems composed of light itself, with carefully layered vibrant glazes that evoke the sun gleaming through stained glass. The balance between open space and solid figures feels as poignant as a parable.<br />
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The mythical dryads (wood-elves) were intwined with trees. Tolkien’s elves are balanced between nature and eternity.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Daybreak"</i> (1922), Maxfield Parrish</small></center><br />
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Much of the palpable feeling of reality in <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Rings Of Power'</i></font> comes from it being literal instead of digital. Practical sets were built on an expansive scale for nearly every sequence, or shot in panoramic locations with elaborate sets laced into them. From the fully functional Numinor sea port to the entire Southlands village to the grand terrace of Lindon with the White Tree, Tolkien's world lives in actuality.<br />
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Obviously, this has been standard practice in screencraft, but not on this scale: because of its seemingly limitless budget and the pedigree it has to match, the series has done so tenfold. It's seen and felt in every frame, not simply heightened spectacle but peerless craft. Nothing seems partial, looks backlot, feels synthetic. Like Tolkien's lands, every little and large thing seems sculpted, carved, scribed, embroidered, smelted, hammered, brewed, hoisted, or seeded by artisans' hands. A world, built.<br />
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The series’ boldest strength comes from taking us where we haven’t been before, and doing what many had always wished could be done.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“I call on you to finish the task undone.”</i></font><br />
<font color="ac7339">-Galadriel</font><br />
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Be bold, explore, grow.<br />
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Every time Tolkien’s works have been announced for adaptation, fans have been wary. ‘The work’s too complex,’ yelled some naysayers from the back, ‘and the screen’s too limited!’ Each screen version made, even when mostly lauded, was met with some quibbles from the loud crowd. The animated TV special <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Hobbit'</i></font> <small>[1977]</small> was pelted with cries of ‘Too many songs!’ The animated film <font color="ffffff">THE LORD OF THE RINGS</font> <small>[1979]</small> with ‘Where’s the other half?’ The animated TV special <font color="ffffff"><i>'The Return Of The King'</i></font> <small>[1980]</small> with ‘Songs again?’ A more grateful response would have been to appreciate that the four books were adapted at all, and so well.<br />
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Even Peter Jackson’s brilliant and universally acclaimed live-action <font color="ffffff">THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING</font> <small>[2001]</small> got ‘Where’s Tom Bombadil?’ from gripers. The answer is, the side guy wasn’t relevant enough to the main story. Jackson had a time factor of three hours, and he solved it by making visual poems of the text, a supercut of every dynamic moment and resonant line flowing clear and beautifully to fruition. Most everyone loved the film trilogy, and even more with the longer Director’s Cuts. Still, his later <font color="ffffff">HOBBIT</font> trilogy got catcalls of ‘Too many songs! Too hyper-sharp! No girls allowed!’ (Note the quick slide from quibbling into bias.) On the real side, the prequel film trilogy expanded Tolkien’s world in new ways that were only beneficial.<br />
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Jackson didn't just do what should be done, but what else could, advancing branches for new expressions.<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.”</i></font> <font color="ac7339">-Bronwyn</font><br />
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<font color="ffffff"><i>'The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power'</i></font> has clearly learned all of the right moves from Jackson’s films: honor the text, respect the audience, positive core, focused pace, balanced emotional tones, go Shakespearian, base it in realism, exquisite craft, heartrending score, breathtaking cinematography. Most importantly, they’ve also taken his cue to expand the material for the potential, the medium, and the times.<br />
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Crucially, they’re able to do what he didn't have the luxury of, to expand time literally. With a general episode span of 70 minutes, they have breathing room for more scenes with greater depth. Concerns about pace evaporate next to the subtlety and intricacy that has been gained in the new medium.<br />
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Tolkien’ book and Jackson’s films are beloved globally for decades. Across all that time come fans from all places and perspectives. The new series is canny to represent not only the fuller range of humanity in its cast, but the full range of fans who now see themselves reflected in the creative world they love. They now have avatars to participate in a shared epic with an ethical heart. (And the only voices who could hate that can’t be counted as actual fans. Tolkien wouldn’t.)<br />
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<font color="39ac39"><i>“Hope is never mere… even when it is meager. When all other senses sleep, the eye of hope is first to waken, last to shut.”</i></font><br />
<font color="ac7339">- High King Gil-galad</font><br />
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The books were always political at their base, written by a war survivor who was processing his trauma through allegories. Even the gentler prelude, <font color="ffffff"><i>"The Hobbit"</i></font>, culminates in the Battle Of The Five Armies. In truth, Tolkien's work is more akin to Remarque's <i>"All Quiet On The Western Front"</i> <small>(1929)</small> and Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY <small>(1957)</small> than to the Narnia books by his friend and parallel, C.S. Lewis. True to form, the series bears the torch for the professor’s timeless concerns: oppose dictators, rout the corrupt, beware nationalism and separatists, stir from complacency, unite in solidarity, defeat the thug, protect the natural world, enjoy life. This must always be said and clearly.<br />
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<font color="ffffff"><i>'The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power'</i></font> has met all expectations and then exceeded them. It succeeds because of the hard work and dedication of its creators, diverse talents unified by a noble vision.:<br />
Writers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, Gennifer Hutchinson, Jason Cahill, Justin Doble, Stephany Folsom, and Nicholas Adams; costume designer Kate Hawley; cinematographers Oscar Faura, Aaron Morton, and Alex Disenhof; concept artists John Howe and Alan Leed; Weta’s special effects; composer Bear McCreary; editors Bernat Vilaplana, Jaume Martí, Stefan Grube, Cheryl Potter, and Jochen FitzHerbert; and directors J.A. Bayona, Wayne Che Yip, and Charlotte Brändström.<br />
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In reflecting on Tolkien and Jackson’s approaches, their success comes from bringing more potential to the ideas, a new context, another way of showing, an unexpected liberation.<br />
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Embrace a fuller world.<br />
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See also:<br />
<font color="ffffff">THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING</font> <small>(2001)</small><br />
<font color="ffffff">THE TWO TOWERS</font> <small>(2002)</small><br />
<font color="ffffff">THE RETURN OF THE KING</font> <small>(2003)</small>.<br />
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TOLKIEN <small>(2019)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kaya</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Wes Craig</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
There may never have been a better time to be a Fantasy fan, with fresh takes now in all creative media. Like those, this fun series benefits from all the deconstruction, inclusion, wider mythos, and genre-bending which are enriching the field.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Monstress</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The bestselling author and the Goth Nouveau Manga artist continue to spellbind us with their complex Fantasy epic.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Public Domain</b></font>, (Image)<br />
<i>by Chip Zdarsky</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Chip Zdarsky has a fine track record, from his art on the satiric indie <i>"Sex Criminals"</i>, to writing <i>"Howard The Duck"</i>, <i>"Daredevil"</i>, and <i>"Batman"</i> for the 2 majors.<br />
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Typically perversely, this 5-issue series takes on the hypocrisy and greed of the comics industry, a fun place to visit but a hard place to live from. It follows a fictional analogue to every creator ever screwed over by the machine,* and his family's attempts to rectify compensation and credit. Ultimately, comics are made by creators -not lawyers, accountants, or corporations- and we should remember and honor this above all.<br />
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*<small>(see also: Siegel and Shuster; Bill Finger; Jack Kirby; Steve Grber; Mike Ploog; Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; Prince; ...)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Adventureman</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
More than an homage to Pulp era adventurers, this smart series updates and inverts those classic codes for the 21st century.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Six Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An acidic spoof of mysteries and films, where a pompous and loathed action movie star is murdered and everybody could be guilty.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>20th Century Man</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Deniz Camp and S. Morian</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A political satire that roasts supersoldiers, machoism, the Cold War, and many of the expectations that go with them.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Eight Billion Genies</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Charles Soul and Ryan Browne</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Every person gets a genie and one wish. Things go ballistic, and that's for starters.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Astro City: That Was Then</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> (Special) ⇧<br />
Before <i>"Top 10"</i>, <i>"Umbrella Academy"</i>, and <i>"Black Hammer"</i>, there was <i>"Astro City"</i> <small>(1995)</small>.<br />
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Picking up the pen from Alan Moore, Kurt Busiek (<i>"Marvels"</i>) literally wrote the book on deconstructing the Silver Age, and this special issue warms things up for the new story arc to come.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bolero</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Wyatt Kennedy and Luana Vecchio</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This 5-issue mini series will please fans of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and Marvel's <i>"What If?"</i> show, with a young woman touring all her multiversal selves.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Department Of Truth</b></font>,<br />
<i>by James Tynion IV and Alison Sampson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The adult conspiracy thriller reached its conclusion with issue #22.<br />
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<center><small>Cover art by Alex Ross</small></center><br />
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<b>Facsimile editions:</b><br />
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Image Comics reprinted first issue facsimiles for $1 each!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Astro City #1</b></font> (1995),<br />
<i>by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Silver Age, postmodernized.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Little Bird #1</b></font> (2019),<br />
<i>by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An edgy and symbolist Fantasy that ran as an acclaimed mini-series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Department Of Truth #1</b></font> (2020),<br />
<i>by James Tynion IV and Alison Sampson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The beginning of the uncovering.<br />
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<center><small>Cover art by Mark Buckingham</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Miracleman: The Silver Age</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Cross your fingers. We might actually get the future this time.<br />
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The semi-short version: Alan Moore created postmodern, adult superheroes with the British hero, <i>"Marvelman"</i> <small>(1982)</small>; in the USA, this climaxed in the unmatchable 'Book 3' of the renamed <i>"Miracleman"</i> <small>(1988)</small>; Moore's chosen successor, Neil Gaiman, got halfway through his intended three follow-up arcs, when the publisher went bankrupt <small>(1993)</small>; after decades of legal wrangling, Marvel is letting Gaiman finish. This second arc of the three, with entirely revamped art by Buckingham, is at last in your grasp.<br />
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Don't miss out this time. Miracles don't happen every day.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Panther</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Ridley and Juan Cabal</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Taking over from bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates, film director John Ridley <small>(12 YEARS A SLAVE)</small> rethinks Wakanda.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Shang Chi</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Gene Luen Yang and Marcus To</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Gene Luen Yang, creator of the <i>"American Born Chinese"</i> <small>(2006)</small> graphic novel, brings new cultural and mythological perspective to this reboot of the philosophical martial arts master.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Captain Carter</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jamie McKelvie and Marika Cresta</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The animated series <i>"What If?"</i> imagined an alternate outcome where Peggy Carter became Captain America. Now this inspired hero has become canon, in a certain live-action film and here in this 5-issue mini-series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Captain Marvel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kelly Thompson and Sergio Davila +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
All the success of Carol Danvers, from page to screen, comes from the work of writer Kelly Thompson, who has defined and guided her evolution since the beginning.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Daredevil</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<i>"Daredevil"</i> is having another golden run, thanks to writer Chip Zdarsky (who is simultaneously writing his DC rival, <i>"Batman"</i>!).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Daredevil, Woman Without Fear</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Chip Zdarsky and Rafael De Latorre</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The most inspired event in <i>"Daredevil"</i> since Elektra... is Elektra becoming Daredevil. Oh, you better run.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Spider-Gwen Gwenverse</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Why should Peter and Miles get all the fun? Gwen Stacy finds out that her multiversal selves also became each of The Avengers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Spider-Punk</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason, Jim Charalampidis, and Travis Lanham</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
"Kick out the jams, $&%$&!" The alternate universe Spidey, Hobart Brown, fights fascism with his punk rock friends, Riotheart, Captain Anarchy, Ms. Marvel, and more.<br />
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<center><small>Cover art by Paulina Ganucheau</small></center><br />
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Marvel is doing a splendid job making movies between the movies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Star Wars</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Charles Soule, and Marco Castiello, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Andres Genolet, and Ramon Rosanas</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For 75 issues, Volume I of this series did excellent arcs filling in the mysteries between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
Now it has relaunched from #1, unveiling dream movies between THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Darth Vader</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco, Marco Castiello, Luke Ross</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In complete parallel with these new stories of the rebels is a relaunch telling the Dark Lord's side of the same events, and how they overlap.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Doctor Aphra</b></font>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Alyssa Wong and Minkyu Jung, </i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The misadventures of everyone's favorite anti-Indiana Jones (a fan-favorite spin-off from the <i>"Darth Vader"</i> series above) continue during the period between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
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Forget the corporation, support the creators.<a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-comics-2020.html#C2" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<center><small><i>"Human Target"</i> art by Greg Smallwood</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>DC PRIDE 2022</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A 100-page anthology Special clebrating the range of LGBTQ+ heroes, including Superman/Jon, Batwoman, Nubia, Green Lantern/Jo, Robin/Tim, Aquaman/Jackson, and more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Swamp Thing</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ram V, Mike Perkins, and Aditya Bidikar</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Ram V's extolled run about a new earth elemental comes to conclusion with #16.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Human Target</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom King and Greg Smallwood</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Christopher Chance poses as a hit to lure out assassins. King's writing is typically sharp, and Smallwood's art -all pencil lines and pop graphics- is an innovative masterclass.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Aquaman: Andromeda</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ram V and Christian Ward</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A 3-issue mini-series by the ubiquitary Ram V, a light gloss on THE ABYSS or <i>"Wake"</i>, with brain-bending psychedelic underwater art by Christian Ward (<i>"Ody-C"</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Catwoman: Lonely City</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cliff Chiang</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cliff Chiang (artist of <i>"Wonder Woman"</i>, <i>"Paper Girls"</i>) brings the full package -writing, illustrating, coloring, and lettering- to an elseworlds epic which reimagines Frank Miller's Batman sagas into a whole new conclusion. Excellent.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tom King and Bilquis Evely</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Tom King (<i>"The Vision"</i>, <i>"Mister Miracle"</i>) applies his trademark sardonic acuity to rethinking Kara, in a cosmic verison of TRUE GRIT that changes the journiers.<br />
(This series will be adapted as a DCU feature film.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>New Champion Of Shazam!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Josie Campbell and Evan 'Doc' Shaner </i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A while back, Cap. Jr took over the mantle of the original Captain Marvel. Now, at last, it is the wonderful Mary Marvel's turn in the sun. (Except that, sigh, we can't use their real names anymore.) A crackling story by Campbell, with lovely naturalistic/clean-line art by Shaner.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Nubia, Queen Of The Amazons</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stephanie Williams (w), and Alitha Martinez and Mark Morales (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Now successor for Queen Hippolyta, Nubia stars in her third mini-series in a year. All hail!<br />
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<b>Facsimile Editions:</b><br />
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DC reprinted facsimile editions of classic comics issues, many related to current screen and comics events.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Action Comics #1</b></font> <small>(1938)</small>,<br />
<i>by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The ultimate classic comic of all, the debut of Superman, with all 64 pages of the anthology comic's stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Detective Comics #27</b></font> <small>(1939)</small>,<br />
<i>by Bob Kane and Bill Finger +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The other ultimate classic comic of all, the debut of Batman, with all 64 pages of the anthology comic's stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Superman #1</b></font> <small>(1939)</small>,<br />
<i>by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
And then of course the One himself, stepping into his own.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marvel Family Comics #1</b></font> <small>(1945)</small>,<br />
<i>by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The debut of the original Captain Marvel's family comic, featuring the debut of Black Adam.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Brave And The Bold #28</b></font> <small>(1960)</small>,<br />
<i>by Gardner Fox (w), and Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The anthology comic featured the debut of the Justice League of America, a smash success that ensured their own title.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Flash #123</b></font> <small>(1961)</small>,<br />
<i>by Gardner Fox (w), and Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
DC invented the Multiverse, and defined it for decades, long before Marvel, SPIDERVERSE, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, etc.<br />
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It begins here, where <i>"Flash of Two Worlds"</i> reveals the parallel Earth-2.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Wonder Woman #204</b></font> <small>(1973)</small>,<br />
<i>by Robert Kanigher (w) and Don Heck and Dick Giordano (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The debut of Nubia, fraternal sister of Wonder Woman and future Queen.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Hammer Reborn</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Rich Tommaso (w), and Malachi Ward (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Lemire's ongoing <i>"Black Hammer"</i> series deconstucts the Silver Age; this is the wind-up of the latest 12-issue spin-off series.<br />
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Karen Berger helmed the original Vertigo Comics, the standard which all current Indie companies are imitating, and now she has her own imprint of creator-owned titles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Shifting Earth</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cecil Castellucci and Flavia Biondi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Two women from parallel earths compare lost chances and make hard choices.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Salamandre</b></font>,<br />
<i>by I.N.J. Culbard</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Writer/artist Culbard (co-creator of Berger Books' <i>“Everything”</i>) pits art revolutionaries against an oppressive regime, in clean-line style.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Star Trek: Lower Decks</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
As if the <i>'Lower Decks'</i> animated series wasn't funny enough, the notoriously loopy Ryan North (<i>"Squirrel Girl"</i>) grabs the controls.<br />
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<center><small>Black Hammer Reborn; Shifting Earth;<br />
All New Firefly; Hecate's Will</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>All New Firefly</b></font>,<br />
<i>by David M. Bocher and Jordi Perez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A new team helmed a relaunch of 10 issues expanding on the cult TV series, reaching fruition with the <i>“All New Firefly Big Damn Finale”</i> special.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Billionaire Island: Cult Of Dogs</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Mark Russell may be comics' most subversive and funniet satirist. This sequel series of three issues continues his smiling assualt on the rich, the bullying, and the stupid.<br />
<small>(see also: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>My Bad</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Russell and Bryce Ingman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everyone's rethinking the Silver Age, so why not Russell? A Special before a purported new line of hero comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Hecate’s Will</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Iolanda Zandfardino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Following last year's <i>"Alice In Leatherland"</i>, Zandfardino's new tale examines the pressures on a retiring Graffiti artist, whose coded murals set off a scavernger hunt sensation across NYC.<br />
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<center><b><i><font color="ffbf00">"Hey, Kids!</font> <font color="ffe300">Comics!"</font></i></b></center><br />
From the '30s to the '80s, comics unified all of the kids in the world.<br />
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Comics spinner racks were omnipresent in every grocery, newstand, and drugstore, a world of dreams in color for small change. But after 50 years, this changed.<br />
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As the fans grew older, comics grew more mature (and gradually more expensive). In the early-'80s, comics disappeared from common spaces to be sold only in individual comic stores. This was the best and worst thing that could have happened: the select stores became a lab for the medium to grow up with adult fans, but this Comics Renaissance left all the kids behind with no entry point. Now that three decades have passed, the young have moved on to games and streaming, seeing superheroes nowadays only in films that are meant for those longtime adult readers.<br />
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Roy Thomas once said, "The Golden Age of Comics is <b>8</b>."<br />
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Comics should still be a fun spark for kids. Now, with the spectacular success of <b>Raina Telgemeier</b>'s books, various publishers are finally figuring this out. A wide movement to provide more All-Ages comics has risen. From single comics to trade paperbacks, there are many new entry points for young readers to join in and open up their imaginations.<br />
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The publishing giant partnered with DC Comics for the <i>Step Into Reading</i> series, with entry level books for new readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Super Friends: We Are Heroes!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Christy Webster (w), and Fabio Laguna and Marco Lesko (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>DC Super Friends: Super-Pets!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Billy Wreck and Ethen Beavers</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Super Hero Valentine’s Day!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kurt Estes and Red Central LTD</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Star Knights</b></font>, (Random House Graphic)<br />
<i>by Kay Davault</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A frog longs to be a knight and goes on a heroic adventure with new friends.<br />
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Abrams publishes entry level books about Marvel Comics heroes for starting readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Black Panther: A My Mighty Marvel First Book</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Buscema</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An overview of the hero, using classic comics art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Captain Marvel: A My Mighty Marvel First Book</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jim Mooney, John Buscema, Dave Cockrum, Keith Pollard and Carmine Infantino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An overview of the hero, using classic comics art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Mighty Thor: A My Mighty Marvel First Book</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jack Kirby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An overview of the hero, using classic comics art.<br />
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Stone Arch is partnering with DC Comics to create <i>"BATMAN and Scooby-Doo"</i> mystery books for young readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Batman And Scooby-Doo Mysteries:<br />
The Cruise Of Doom</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Anthony Steele and Dario Brizuela</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 1972, Batman and Robin made a surprise appearance on the Saturday morning cartoon show, <i>’Scooby-Doo’</i>. This was so iconic that it has become a recurring match-up in comics and cartoons ever since.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Batman And Scooby-Doo Mysteries:<br />
The Frenzied Feline Mystery</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Anthony Steele and Dario Brizuela</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Batman And Scooby-Doo Mysteries:<br />
The Curse Of Creepy Crypt</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Anthony Steele and Dario Brizuela</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Batman And Scooby-Doo Mysteries:<br />
Trapped In Clown Castle</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Anthony Steele and Dario Brizuela</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Black Panther: Shuri Is Brave</b></font>, (Golden Books)<br />
<i>by Frank Berrios</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A Little Golden Book starring the smart scientist who became the new Black Panther in the films.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Black Panther: Shuri, Defender Of Wakanda</b></font>, (DK Reader)<br />
<i>by Pamela Afram</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Part of DK Publishing’s “Learn To Read” series, starring Shuri.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Two-Headed Chicken</b></font>, (Waller Books)<br />
<i>by Tom Angleberger</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A funny story of a two-headed chicken outwitting a chasing moose.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Sir Ladybug #2, #3</b></font>, (Balzer+Bray/ HarperCollins)<br />
<i>by Corey R. Tabor</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The brave ladybug knight and his friends go on adventures.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Sparks! The Future Purrfect</b></font> #3, (Scholastic Graphix)<br />
<i>by Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The two cats operating a dog-disguise vehicle explore the mysterious island.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>InvestiGators: Heist And Seek</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by John Patrick Green</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The two alligators in a giant robot headquarters solve crimes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Fitz And Cleo Get Creative</b></font>, (Henry Holt And Co.)<br />
<i>by Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two ghost siblings live it up in twelve funny stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Red Panda and Moon Bear (Book Two):<br />
The Curse Of The Evil Eye</b></font>, (Top Shelf)<br />
<i>by Jarod Rosello</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The Cuban-American siblings solve mysteries, stop monsters, and have fun with friends.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Max And The MidKnights:<br />
The Tower Of Time</b></font>, (Crown Books)<br />
<i>by Lincoln C. Peirce</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Will Max become a knight like she dreams? These books will become a Nickelodeon cartoon series in 2023.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Poiko:<br />
Quests And Stuff</b></font>, (Wonderbound)<br />
<i>by Brian Middleton</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Furry Poiko is a courier who makes wild deliveries to far-out creatures.<br />
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Oni prints traditional monthly comics for middle school readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Action Journalism</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Eric Skillman (w), and Miklos Felvideki and Ramon K. Perez (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Kate the reporter uncovers whacky happenings with invading aliens, floating scientists, fantasy kingdoms, and more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Another Castle</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Andrew Wheeler and Paulina Ganucheau</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Princess Misty decides to make her own station and fate in her adventures.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Jonna And The Unstoppable Monsters</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Chris Samnee and Laura Samnee (w) and Chris Samnee (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A Fantasy adventure with two young sisters searching for their dad while outwitting the monsters.<br />
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The classic paperback reprints of <i>“Peanuts”</i> comic strips are being reprinted themselves.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>It’s A Dog’s Life, Charlie Brown</b></font>, (Titan Comics)<br />
<i>by Charles Schulz</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This 6x9 paperback collects timeless strips from 1960-’62.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Snoopy Cannonball</b></font>, (Andrews McMeel)<br />
<i>by Charles Schulz</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Snoopy swims, plays sports, writes!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Peanuts: The Classic Peanuts Collection</b></font> Box Set, (Titan Comics)<br />
<i>by Charles Schulz</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This box set includes the books <i>“Peanuts”</i>, <i>“More Peanuts”</i>, and <i>“Good Ol’ Charlie Brown”</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Squidding Around</b></font>, (Scholastic Graphix)<br />
<i>by Kevin Sherry</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Can the funny squid Squizzard win the school prank contest?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Leon The Extraordinary: A Graphic Novel</b></font> [Leon #1], (Scholastic Graphix)<br />
<i>by Jamar Nicholas</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In Leon's city, everyone is a superhero but him. When they are turned into zombies, Leon uses his science smarts to save the day.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Spider-Ham: Hollywood May-Ham</b></font>, (Scholastic)<br />
<i>by Steve Foxe and Shadia Amin</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Peter Porker, the amazing Spider-Pig, gets whiff of a movie studio mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Marvel-Verse: Moon Girl</b></font>, (Marvel)<br />
<i>by Brandon Montclare (w) and Gustavo Duarte (a) +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The science girl and her companion dinosaur come to the rescue.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Encanto: The Graphic Novel</b></font>, (Random House Disney)<br /> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The loved animated musical is told with film stills in comics style.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Maybe An Artist: A Graphic Memoir</b></font>, (Random House Studio)<br />
<i>by Liz Montague</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Liz became a New Yorker cartoonist at 22. Here, her story could become yours.<br />
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Random House also publishs <i>Screen Comix</i>, books which combine film stills with word balloons to make comic adaptations of entire films. (8-12)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Star Wars: The Mandalorian, The Rescue</b></font><br />
<font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The second book based on the popular Disney+ TV series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Hilda:<br />
The Trolberg Stories</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson</i> <font color="00ccff">____</font> ⇧<br />
In synch with the hit Netflix cartoon adaption, a reprint of the HILDA books, "<i>Hilda And The Bird Parade!</i>" and "<i>Hilda And The Black Hound!</i>", in one volume.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>A M P C O M I C S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Big Nate: Beware Of The Low-Flying Corn Muffins</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lincoln Pierce</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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The goofy troublemaker is the star of ongoing books and an animated series on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Big Nate: Destined For Awesomeness</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lincoln Pierce</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Big Nate: Release The Hounds</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lincoln Pierce</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>N O B R O W</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Adventures of Team Pom #2: The Last Dodo</b></font>, (Nobrow Press)<br />
<i>by Isabel Roxas</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The sleuth kids inspect the mystery at the Natural History Museum.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Skip</b></font>, (Nobrow)<br />
<i>by Molly Mendoza</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Bloom and Gloopy travel dimensions, dicovering that there's no place like home.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>F I R S T S E C O N D</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Fifth Quarter: Hard Court</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Mike Dawson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
In the second book, the basketball player faces change at school and in her home life.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Nico Brazo And The Trial Of Vulcan</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Mike Cavallaro</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
In his third book, Nico and friends brave another adventure.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>Other Publishers:</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Peach And The Isle Of Monsters</b></font>, (Action Lab)<br />
<i>by Franco and Agnes Garbowska</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A young girl seeks to prove herself braving an island of monsters, pirates, and witches.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>The Tale Of Princess Kaguya</b></font>, (Viz Media)<br />
<i>by Isao Takahata</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The classic Studio Ghibli animated film <small>(2013)</small>, with its traditional brush paintings, is reproduced as a comics tale.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>A Day In The Life Of A Caveman, A Queen, And Everything In Between:
History As You’ve Never Seen It Before</b></font>, (Buster Books)<br />
<i>by Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A funny trip through history in breezy terms.<br />
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<center><h1><font size="6"><font color="ffffff">Y o u n g A d u l t :<br />
<b>13 - 18</b></font></font></h1></center><br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>D C<br />
YOUNG ADULT</b></font></center><br />
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DC has a pocket-book sized line called DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Galaxy: The Prettiest Star</b></font>, (DC)<br />
<i>by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The Galactic princess is in hiding as a boy on Earth, but her new friend gives her the courage to come out.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Teen Titans Go! / DC Super Hero Girls Exchange Students</b></font> (DC),<br />
<i>by Amy Wolfram and Agnes Gargowska</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The two cartoon series from alternate universes meet.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>My Buddy Killer Croc</b></font>, (DC)<br />
<i>by Sara Farizan and Nicoletta Baldari</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Andy knows he could do well at his new school, if he could get advice from the notorious wrestler, Batman's foe.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Mister Miracle: The Great Escape</b></font>, (DC)<br />
<i>by Varian Johnson and Daniel Isles</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Young Scott Free, aspiring escape artist, falls for the girl sent to catch him, Big Barda.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend</b></font>, (DC)<br />
<i>by Alys Arden</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The mystic working at the Coney Island boardwalk has a greater magic legacy than she knows.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S C H O L A S T I C</b></font></center><br />
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Scholastic has partnered with Marvel Comics to create Young Adult books as entry points for some of their young modern heroes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Miles Morales: Stranger Tides</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Spider-Man is at a popular video game launch, when everyone gets frozen by a supervillain.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Into The Heartlands: A Black Panther Graphic Novel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Roseanne A. Brown (w), and Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, Claudia Aguirre, and Geoffo (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Shuri is feuding with her annoying brother T'challa, but can they work together to save the kingdom from a spreading curse?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Shuri: Symbiosis</b></font>, (Scholastic Press)<br />
<i>by Nic Stone and Eric Wilkerson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The third <b>prose novel</b> from YA author Nic Stone, following the previous, <i>“Shuri”</i> <small>(2020)</small> and <i>“Shuri: The Vanished”</i> <small>(2021)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Aquanaut</b></font>, (Scholastic Press)<br />
<i>by Dan Santat</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The young girl working at a marine park teams up with a diving suit full of fish to plumb the mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Heartstopper: Volume Four</b></font>, Scholastic Graphix)<br />
<i>by Alice Oseman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The celebrated teen love webcomic, turned graphic novel, turned popular Netflix TV series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Baby-Sitters Club #11, #12</b></font>, (Scholastic Press)<br />
<i>by Ann M. Martin and Chan Chau</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The ongoing adventures of the circle of small-town friends.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>RAINA TELGEMEIER</b></font></center><br />
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The popular Raina Telgemeier’s books have some new printings from Scholastic.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Sisters</b></font>, (2014)<br />
<i>by Raina Telgemeier</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two young sisters have to learn to live together, and then with their baby brother.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Ghosts</b></font>, (2016)<br />
<i>by Raina Telgemeier</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two young sisters brave the haunts of a California coastal town.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>F I R S T<br />
S E C O N D</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Shuna’s Journey</b></font>, (First Second,<br />
<i>by Hayao Miyazaki</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A translated reprint of a manga story by Miyazaki, known as the leader of the Studio Ghibli animation studio.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Ride On</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Faith Erin Hicks</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Well known for her crafty YA Fantasy books, Hicks comes closer to home; an early teen girl weaves around rivalties at a horse-training stable.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Button Pusher</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Tyler Page</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Page's memoir reveals his rambuncious youth, and how he came to grips with a diagnosis of ADHD.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Science Comics: Birds Of Prey</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Joe Flood</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
This volume of the ongoing Science Comics stands out with its fleet history facts and striking art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>History Comics: Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Tracey Baptiste and Shauna Grant</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The two heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, a woman and a teen, who took a stand that lifted everyone up.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>History Comics: The Stonewall Riots</b></font>, (First Second)<br />
<i>by Archie Bongiovanni and A. Andrews</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The rise of the Gay Liberation movement, which called on the world to be honest and fair.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>LITTLE<br />
B R O W N<br />
and C o .</b></font></center>
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Anne Of West Philly</b></font>, (Little Brown And Co.)<br />
<i>by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A reimagining of <i>“Anne Of Green Gables”</i> in modern urban Philadelphia.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Numb To This: Memoir Of A Mass Shooting</b></font>, (Little Brown And Co.)<br />
<i>by Kindra Neely</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Kindra Neely survived a real mass school shooting in 2015. Here, she processes that trauma in a story that everyone can learn from.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>Q U I L L<br />
T R E E<br />
B O O K S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Speak Up!</b></font>, (Quill Tree Books)<br />
<i>by Rebecca Burgess</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The autistic girl and her unbridled friend become a online music sensation under a pseudonym.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Wingbearer</b></font>, (Quill Tree Books)<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Teny Issakhanian</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Bestselling Fantasy author Marjorie Liu pens a YA tale of a young girl and her owl companion on a magical quest.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Squire</b></font>, (Quill Tree Books)<br />
<i>by Sara Alfageeh</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The young girl from the lower classes tricks her way into the Knight school, but now has to figure out what the right cause is.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>H A R P E R A L L E Y</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Girl On Fire</b></font>, (HarperAlley)<br />
<i>by Alicia Keys with Andrew Weiner (w), Brittney Williams (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Famed pop star Alicia Keys co-creates a Metropolitan parable of a young telekenetic girl figuring how to protect her community from bad forces.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Swan Lake: Search For The Kingdoms</b></font>, (HarperAlley)<br />
<i>by Rey Terciero and Megan Kearney</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two rival princesses become unlikely friends and face off threats to both kingdoms.<br />
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The <i>“No Fear Shakespeare”</i> series matches the Bard’s words to comics panels (ages 12-15).<br />
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➤ <a href="https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/" target="_blank">SparkNotes</a> site<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon Of A Jedi</b></font>, (IDW)<br />
<i>by Alex Worley and Ruairi Coleman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A tale of responsibility and compassion about Luke Skywalker, with connections to Rey in the future.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>The Subtle Knife: The Graphic Novel</b></font> [His Dark Materials #2], (Knopf Books)<br />
<i>by Stephane Melchior and Thomas Gilbert</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The second book of Pullman's <i>'His Dark Materials'</i> trilogy is adapted as a graphic novel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Phenomena: The Golden City Of Eyes</b></font>, (Abrams Comics Arts)<br />
<i>by Brian Michael Bendis and Andrew Lima Araujo</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Bendis, an influential comics writer, stretches into new Fantasy territory with impressive Moebius-esque art by Araujo.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky</b></font>, (Rick Riordan Presents)<br />
<i>by Robert Venditti and Olivia Stephens</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Kwame Mbalia's book, part of Rick Riordan's (the <i>'Percy Jackson'</i> books) publishing imprint for diverse Fantasy authors, is adapted to comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Breath Of The Giant</b></font>, (Fairsquare Comics)<br />
<i>by Tom Aurielle</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two sisters journey to the land of giants looking for the power of life resurrection.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>5 Worlds, Book 5: The Emerald Gate</b></font>, (Random House)<br />
<i>by Mark Siegel and Alexis Siegel (w), and Xantha Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boya Sun (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The finale of the SF/Fantasy, with five friends seeking the beacon that saves their worlds.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Nowhere Girl</b></font>, (Nobrow Press)<br />
<i>by Magali Le Huche</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A Parisian tween deals with the setbacks in her life by listening to The Beatles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>My Aunt Is A Monster</b></font>, (Image)<br />
<i>by Reimena Yee</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A sightless girl longing for adventure is opened to wider dimensions by her Aunt Whimsy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>All My Friends</b></font>, (Farrar, Straus, And Giroux)<br />
<i>by Hope Larson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Larson rounds out her middle-school books <i>"All Summer Long"</i> and <i>"All Together Now"</i> with this upbeat finale.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Arden High</b></font>, (Disney/Hyperion)<br />
<i>by Molly Booth and Stephanie Kate Strohm</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Vi loves Orsino who loves Olivia who loves Vi. Love is love.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Isla To Island</b></font>, (Simon And Shuster)<br />
<i>by Alexis Castellanos</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Marisol escapes danger in Cuba moving to Brooklyn, but can she escape culture shock and loneliness?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Flavor Girls</b></font> #1, #2, #3, (Boom)<br />
<i>by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The author of <i>"Persphone"</i> chronicles a Magic Girl group adventure across 3 <b>comics</b> issues at 56 pages each.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Sophie’s World:<br />
A Graphic Novel About The History Of Philosophy, Vol.1:<br />
From Socrates To Galileo</b></font>, (SelfMadehero)<br />
<i>by Vincent Zabus and Nicoby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This adaptation of Jostein Gaarder's 1991 book follows Sophie in her search for meaning and enlightenment. Feed your head.<br />
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Resources:<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.comicshoplocator.com/" target="_blank">Comic Shop Locator</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://bookshop.org/" target="_blank">BookShop.org</a><br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.kidscomics.com" target="_blank">Kidscomics.com</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/" target="_blank">School Library Journal: Good Comics For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/12/20/21029548/best-comics-for-kids-graphic-novels" target="_blank">50 Best Comics + Graphic Novels For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com" target="_blank">The Big Blog Of Kids' Comics!</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://www.europecomics.com/comics-for-children/" target="_blank">European Comics For Children</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens" target="_blank">13 Great Webcomics For Kids and Teens</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Fantastic Four: Full Circle</b></font>, (Marvel/Abrams Books),<br />
<i>by Alex Ross</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Lee and Kirby's <i>"Fantastic Four"</i> remapped the scope of possibility with comics, from the macrocosmic to the microscopic.<br />
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Premiere illustrator Alex Ross (<i>"Marvels"</i>, <i>"Kingdom Come"</i>) reignites the torch, writing and illustrating a lavish expansion on a Lee/Kirby storyline, reminding us where we come from and what more is possible.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Time Zone</b></font>, (Drawn And Quarterly)<br />
<i>by Julie Doucet</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Julie's indie confessional comix in the '90s and '00s were a shocking sensation, but she burned out on the unpaid grind of it all. She returns chronicling a love affair in all its turns.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>A Diary Of A Plague Year:<br />
An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020</b></font>, (Metropolitan Books)<br />
<i>by Elise Engler</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Engler had challenged herself to interpret a headline a day in 2020, but then the whole world went insane.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Unretouchable</b></font>, (Graphics Universe)<br />
<i>by Sofia Szamosi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Working in the fashion industry photoshopping out glamour shot flaws, she realizes that all of the enforced social norms are toxic.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Iranian Love Stories</b></font>, (Graphic Mundi)<br />
<i>by ‘Jane Deuxard’ and Deloupy</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Iranian citizens risk their lives revealing their real private liasons to a pseudonymous reporter duo.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Flung Out In Space:<br />
Inspired By The Indecent Adventures Of Patricia Highsmith</b></font>, (Surely Books)<br />
<i>by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Highsmith is revered now for books adapted into THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and CAROL. But this bio reveals how she lived a tortured life hiding her sexuality while doubting her chances at writing success.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Third Person</b></font>, (Drawn And Quarterly)<br />
<i>by Emma Grove</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Groves' memoir navigates a transition in gender and the compassionate therapy that helped get there.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fine: A Comic About Gender</b></font>, (Liveright Publishing Corporation)<br />
<i>by Rhea Ewing</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In the quest to define their own gender, Ewing interviewed everyone about their gender experiences, creating this holistic overview.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Good Asian</b></font>, (Image)<br />
<i>by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A Chinese-American detective in 1936 Chinatown is crosscut by enemies, bias, and doubt.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Best We Could Do:<br />
An Illustrated Memoir</b></font>, (Abrams ComicArts)<br />
<i>by Thi Bui </i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A second printing of Bui's 2018 memoir, detailing her family's escape from the fall of Saigon, and the trials of adapting to a new life in America.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Messy Roots: A Graphic memoir Of A Wuhanese-American</b></font>, (Balzer+Bray)<br />
<i>by Laura Gao</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A comedy, in which a Chinese immigrant teen already reeling from moving to Texas (during Covid, and Wuhan-phobes) is also sorting out her sexuality.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Mamo</b></font>, (Boom! Box)<br />
<i>by Sass Milledge</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A fun tale about a succession between witches couches an allegory of reconciling your dreams and your heritage.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Amazona</b></font>, (Graphic Universe)<br />
<i>by Canizales</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A political thriller, where a bereaved Columbian activist strives to expose an exploitative mining operation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>It Won't Always Be Like This</b></font>, (Ten Speed Press)<br />
<i>by Malaka Gharib </i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The follow-up to <i>“I Was Their American Dream”</i>, where the American teen girl adjusts to her new Egyptian step-family.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Quaco:<br />
My Life In Slavery</b></font>, (Book Palace)<br />
<i>by Ineke Mok and Eric Huevel</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The true story of a captured youth enduring the whole gamut of the slave trade, from Africa to America.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>All Rise:<br />
Resistance And Rebellion In South Africa</b></font>, (Catalyst Press)<br />
<i>by Richard Conyngham, and Tumi Mambolo (+ 5 more)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Six stories of average people suffering under Apartheid who each found ways of making a step toward progress and freedom.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>No Surrender</b></font>, (SelfMadeHero)<br />
<i>by Sophie Rickard and Scarlett Rickard</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Constance Maud's pivotal 1911 Suffrage book helped propel the revolution, now adapted here as a graphic novel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Rosa Parks</b></font>, (NBM)<br />
<i>by Mariapaola Pesce and Matteo Mancini</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The life of the priceless Civil Rights leader, who questioned a country's soul and conscience.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fists Raised:<br />
10 Stories Of Sports Star Activists</b></font>, (NBM)<br />
<i>by Chloé Célérien and Karim Nedjari</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
From Muhammad Ali to Megan Rapinoe, conscious athletes who risked their sports careers to stand up to injustice.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Smahtguy:<br />
The Life And Times of Barney Frank</b></font>, (Metropolitan Books)<br />
<i>by Eric Orner</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The proudly working class Congressor who fought for Gay rights, finance reform, and honesty in government.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Radical:<br />
My Year With A Socialist Senator</b></font>, (IDW)<br />
<i>by Sophia Warren</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Illustrated journalism from a year of observing every hope, obstacle, and push by a new state senator to do right by the people.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Policing The City:<br />
An Ethno-Graphic</b></font>, (Other Press)<br />
<i>by Didier Fassin and Frederic Debomy</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Didier Fassin's 2006 investigative essay <i>"Enforcing Order"</i>, exposing how bigotry and violence are deliberately baked into police units, gets an illustrated and timely adaptation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Petrogad</b></font>, (Oni Press)<br />
<i>by Phil Gelatt and Tyler Cooke</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A 2011 reissue (by the writer of the film EUROPA REPORT <small>[2013]</small>) susses out the solution to who planned the assassination of Rasputin.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Putin’s Russia:<br />
The Rise Of A Dictator</b></font>, (Drawn And Quarterly)<br />
<i>by Darryl Cunningham</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A markedly timely history of the thug and his criminal arc.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>I’m Still Alive</b></font>, (Archaia Studios)<br />
<i>by Roberto Saviano and Asaf Hanuuka</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Journalist Roberto Saviano exposed the Italian Mafia with his book, <i>“Gomorrah”</i> <small>(2006)</small>, and has lived in police protection ever since. Defiant still, he recounts that journey in detail.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Brave New World</b></font>, (HarperCollins)<br />
<i>by Aldous Huxley, adapted by Fred Fordham</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Orwell's parable <i>"1984"</i> <small>(1949)</small> predicted humans would undo themselves through oppressive fascism. Huxley's book <i>"Brave New World"</i> <small>(1932)</small> predicted that humans would willingly oppress themselves through comfort and shiny consumerism.<br />
They were both right.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>How To Take Over The World:<br />
Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions For The Aspiring Supervillain</b></font>, (Riverhead Books)<br />
<i>by Ryan North</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The outrageously whacky and smart Ryan North (the computer programmer who wrote the <i>"Squirrel Girl"</i> comics) spoofs supervillain schemes on an epic level, while sneaking in positive solutions for real life.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Five Lives Of Hilma af Klint</b></font>, (David Zwirner Books)<br />
<i>by Julia Voss and Philipp Deines</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Only recently rediscovered, the Swedish artist pioneered abstract painting, overcoming immense hardships in her pursuit.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Alice Guy, First Lady Of Film</b></font>, (SelfMadehero)<br />
<i>by Jose-Louis Bocquet</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In the Silent Film era, female directors, writers, and editors were everywhere, but then got pushed out as film studios became money mints.<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/naomi-mcdougall-jones-wrong-kind-of-women-excerpt/606277/" target="_blank">></a> Alice Guy was the first female director, in 1896, ushering in many progressive techniques and inclusive casting. She's the root for every branch today.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Make_Film" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Georgia O’Keefe</b></font>, (SelfMadehero)<br />
<i>by Maria Herreros</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A bio of the painter, who broke from current styles for an enigmatic appraisal of naturalism.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Diego Rivera</b></font>, (SelfMadeHero)<br />
<i>by Francisco de la Mora and Jose Luis Pescador</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The proud Mexican muralist took on the capitalist system, fighting censorship and class injustice.<br />
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➤ <a href="https://selfmadehero.com/" target="_blank">SelfMadeHero</a> publishes graphic novels about important creators.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Django, Hand On Fire:<br />
The Great Django Reinhardt</b></font>, (NBM)<br />
<i>by Salva Ra and Efa</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Even with his hand ruined by fire, the gypsy may have been the greatest guitarist in the world.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Enter The Blue</b></font>, (Z2 Comics)<br />
<i>by Dave Chishom</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
When her Jazz mentor goes into a coma, Choi discovers another vibrational continuum, where history lives and music thrives.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.</b></font>, (Mariner Books)<br />
<i>by James Spooner</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A memoir of Spooner's 1989 youth, embracing Punk in a place where he is ostracized for his skin and outlook.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Chuck D Presents Apocalypse 91:<br />
Revolution Never Sleeps</b></font>, (Z2)<br />
<i>by Evan Narcisse, Che Grayson, Regine Sawyer, Troy-Jeffery Allen, and Chuck D (w); art by Koi Turnbull, Butch Mapa, Carlos Oliveares, and Chuck D</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This anthology of Cyberfunk tales is a new sequel to Public Enemy's 1991 album, <i>"Apocalypse 91: The Empire Strikes Black."</i><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Hen Kai Pan</b></font>, (Titan Comics)<br />
<i>by Eldo Yoshimizu</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Five ancient gods want to save the Earth from the ravages of humans, but one of them wants to burn everything down.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Forest</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Thomas Ott</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
25 scratchboard illustrations without text, following a young boy's journey into an eerie forest. Cryptic, unnerving, surprising.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Alliances: Orphans</b></font>, (Dynamite)<br />
<i>by Stan Lee, Luke Lieberman, and Ryan Silbert (w), and Bill Sienkiewicz (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Stan Lee left us one more cosmic odyssey, spectaculary illustrated by the great Bill Sienkiewicz.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Cowboy Bebop</b></font>, (Titan Comics)<br />
<i>by Dan Watters and Lamar Mathurin</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A tie-in with the live-action Netflix series, which was canceled too fast by fools, with new adventures.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Chivalry</b></font>, (Dark Horse)<br />
<i>by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The bestselling author teams with the great illustrator for an epic and touching Fantasy tale.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Night Eaters: She Eats The Night</b></font>, (Abrams ComicArts)<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The same creators as the intricate <i>"Monstress</i>" somehow have time for another series; this time, the first book in a supernatural mystery trilogy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <b><font color="9966ff">EC ARCHIVES:</font></b><br />
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The remastered Hardcover reprints of EC Comics are winding up, printing the final titles of the line.<br />
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<b><font color="8080ff">Terror Illustrated</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="9966ff">Crime Patrol</font>, Vol. 1</b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
EC Comics invented comics for adults in the early-'50s, and were crucified for it.<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america-david-hajdu/10092241" target="_blank">></a><br />
After the government censorship kicked in, EC bowed out with these final comics titles, but would retrench with the smash success of <i>Mad Magazine</i>.<br />
Stories by Feldstein, Crandell, Krigstein, Davis, Orlando, Kamen, Craig, and more.<br />
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<center><small>Art by Wallace Wood</small></center><br /><br />
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Meanwhile, the remastered EC Comics Hardcovers are now being re-released as affordable Softcover editions, proceeding in order.<br />
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<b><font color="8080ff">The Haunt Of Fear</font>, Vol. 2<br />
<font color="9966ff">Tales From The Crypt</font>, Vol. 2<br />
<font color="8080ff">Shock SuspenStories</font>, Vol. 2<br />
<font color="9966ff">The Vault Of Horror</font>, Vol. 2,<br />
<font color="8080ff">Incredible Science Fiction</font>, Vol. 1</b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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These early-'50s comics redefined maturity in the medium, launched great writers and artists, electrified readers, and terrified conservatives. Essential.<br />
➤ see also: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america/9780312428235" target="_blank">"The Ten Cent Plague"</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>‘Best Of EC Stories’ Artisan Edition</b></font> #1, (IDW)<br />
<i>by Wood, Williamson, Toth, Orlando, Kurtzman, Krigstein, and Davis.</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The photographed original line art for 25 stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Code Of Honor and Other Stories</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Gardner Fox, John Severin, Will Elder, Gene Colan, and Ann Brewster +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A compilation focusing on John Severin's work.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Dearly Beloved And Other Stories</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Al Feldstein, Gardner Fox, and Harry Harrison. Art by Johnny Craig, Sheldon Moldoff, and Jules Feiffer</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A compilation focusing on Johnny Craig's crime and horror work.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Home To Stay!:<br />
The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Craig, Crandall, Davis, Elder, Evans, Frazetta, Ingels, Kamen, Krenkel, Krigstein, Orlando, Severin, Torres, Williamson, and Wood.</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
When EC swiped a Bradbury story, he diplomatically reminded them they 'forgot' to pay him. Thus started a beautiful friendship.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>The Complete Little Nemo</b></font>, (Taschen)<br />
<i>by Winsor McCay</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Literally <i>everything</i> in one book: 11.3" x 14.4", all 549 color Sunday pages, a 704-page book with a 140-page illustrated essay.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The George Herriman Library:<br />
Krazy And Ignatz 1922-1924</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by George Herriman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
What Chaplin was to film, what Joyce was to literature, Herriman was to comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Walt Disney Film Archives,<br />
The Animated Movies 1921-1968</b></font>, (Taschen)<br />
<i>Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A comprehensive overview of Disney's classic animated films: 13" x 9.5", 620 pages, full color, with rare concept sketches and storyboards.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Terry And The Pirates,<br />
The Master Collection Vol. 2:<br />
1936, The Burma Blues</b></font>, (Clover Press)<br />
<i>by Milton Caniff</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Terry And The Pirates,<br />
The Master Collection Vol. 3:<br />
1937, The Return Of Normandie Drake</b></font>, (Clover Press)<br />
<i>by Milton Caniff</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In the '30s, comic strips grew up beyond slapstick funnies with adventure series that brought in adult maturity, serious themes, and illustrative flair.<br />
(see also: <i>"Prince Valiant"</i>, <i>"Flash Gordon"</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Planet Comics #47-20, 1947</b></font>, (PS Artbooks)<br />
<i>by Lily Renee, Murphy Anderson, George Evans, Fran Hopper +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<i>"Planet Comics"</i> was the cutting edge in SciFi comics, channeling the Pulp mags while showcasing rising writers and artists. Its publisher, Fiction House, was notably forward by showcasing empowered female heroes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Pre-Code Comics: Tor</b></font>, (PS ArtBooks)<br />
<i>by Norman Maurer and Joe Kubert, with Mort Meskin</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Because Joe Kubert. He was such a master of the illustration form that he literally taught the masterclass, opening the <a href="https://www.kubertschool.edu/"target=_blank>Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art</a>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Duck Luck”:<br />
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Library, Vol. 27</b></font>, (Fantagraphics) <small>(early-‘60s)</small><br />
<i>by Carl Barks</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Fantagraphics is closing in on their planned 30 volumes of Barks' celebrated Duck stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Pogo,<br />
The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips:<br />
Vol. 8, Hijinks From The Horn Of Plenty</b></font>, (Fantagraphics) <small>(1963-’64)</small><br />
<i>by Walt Kelly</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Come for the beguiling art and wordplay, stay for the nimble social commentary.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Marvel Comics Library:<br />
Fantastic Four, Vol.1 1961-’63</b></font>, (Taschen)<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A deluxe remastering of the first 20 stories, printed in hardcover (with a slipcase) at 11" x 15.6", across 700 pages.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Mighty Marvel Masterworks:<br />
Doctor Strange, Vol. 1</b></font>, (Marvel) <small>(1964-’65)</small><br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
When Marvel went cosmic, and ushered in psychedelia.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>John Buscema ‘Silver Surfer’ Artisan Edition #1</b></font>, (IDW) <small>(1968)</small><br />
<i>by Stan Lee and John Buscema</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The photographed line art pages of the original stories that defined comics' most philosophical and progressive alien.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Maverix And Lunatix:<br />
Icons Of Underground Comix</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Drew Friedman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Full-page portraits of each great creator in the Underground Comix movement, painted by Friedman.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Book Of Mr. Natural</b></font>, (Fantagraphics) <small>(1967-‘90s)</small><br />
<i>by Robert Crumb</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
All of the Mr. Natural stories, including the infamous Devil Girl arcs at the end.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Fourth World By Jack Kirby</b></font> Box Set, (DC) <small>(1971-’72)</small><br />
<i>by Jack Kirby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Kirby's magnum opus, which redefined the cosmic scope of DC and introduced Darkseid, collected together in 4 softcover volumes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #1</b></font>, <small>(1972-’74)</small><br />
<i>by Jack Kirby</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A collection of the first 20 issues of the post-apocalyptic youth.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Absolute Swamp Thing</b></font> (DC), <small>(1972-’73)</small><br />
<i>by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The entire run of Wein and Wrightson's historic series, remastered and printed at 9.5" x 13" across 336 pages.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Gil Kane’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Artisan Edition #1</b></font> (Marvel), <small>(1971-’73)</small><br />
<i>by Gil Kane</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The photographed line art pages for Kane's ephochal art run, including the seismic Amazing Spider-Man #122, <i>"The Death of Gwen Stacy"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Marvel Masterworks: The Tomb Of Dracula, Vol. 2</b></font> (Marvel), <small>(1973-’74)</small><br />
<i>by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, and Tom Palmer</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This series made Horror comics cool again, paired the great Colan and Palmer art team, and introduced Blade the Vampire Killer.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Lone Sloane</b></font> Box Set, (Titan Comics) <small>(1966-’76)</small><br />
<i>by Philippe Druillet</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This set collects the books <i>“The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane”</i>, <i>“Lone Sloane: Delirius”</i>, and <i>“Lone Sloane: Gail”</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Vuzz</b></font>, (Titan Books) <small>(1974)</small><br />
<i>by Philippe Druillet</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Druillet and Moebius co-founded <i>"Metal Hurlant"</i> magazine, an adult SciFi/Fantasy anthology which advanced comics, movies, books, and the genres.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Alex Toth ‘Bravo For Adventure’ Artist’s Edition</b></font>, (IDW) <small>(1975)</small><br />
<i>by Alex Toth</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A 2nd edition <small>(2016)</small> reprint of Toth's personal project, a love letter to the adventure films, book, mags, and strips of his youth.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Breakdowns</b></font>, (Pantheon Books) <small>(1978)</small><br />
<i>by Art Spiegelman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A new reprinting of Spiegelman's early works, which led to the radical Raw Magazine.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Collected Toppi #7: Sharaz De!</b></font>, (Lion Forge) (1979)<br />
<i>by Sergio Toppi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>The Collected Toppi #8: The Collector</b></font>, (Lion Forge) <small>(1980s)</small><br />
<i>by Sergio Toppi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Toppi was one of the finest illustrators and graphic artists of the 20th century. Every page startles and enlightens.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Prince Valiant, Vol. 25</b></font>, (Fantagraphics) <small>(1985-’86)</small><br />
<i>by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Cullen Murphy</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Prince Valiant, Vol. 26</b></font>, (Fantagraphics) <small>(1987-’88)</small><br />
<i>by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Cullen Murphy</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Hal Foster's <i>"Prince Valiant"</i> comic strip brought literacy and illustration into the comics medium, resetting the bar. The Murphys continued Foster's legacy from 1970 to 2004.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Incal: Black And White Edition</b></font>, (Humanoids, Inc.) <small>(1980-’88)</small><br />
<i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The entire epic, presented in the original line art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>The Jodorowsky Library (Book Two): Son Of The Gun / Pietrolino</b></font>, (Humanoids, Inc.) <small>(2001 / 2013)</small><br />
<i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky (w), and George Bess / Olivier Boiscommun (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Jodorowsky, tha insurgent film director <small>(EL TOPO, HOLY MONTAIN)</small>, wrote many mind-films for the page, where budget and audience were no constriction.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Complete Aztec Ace</b></font>, (Dark Horse) <small>(1984-’85)</small> ⇧<br />
<i>by Doug Moench and Dan Day</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After his pensive decade run on the classic <i>"Shang Chi"</i>, Moench crafted a new masterpiece for the indie company Eclipse that everyone slept on; a Mesoamerican Rock'n'Roller time traveler and his wiseass Flapper companion correcting time distortions ('doxyglitches'). Dan Day continued the innovative graphic layout experiments of his late brother, Gene.<br />
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It was as important as other hailed milestones in the '80s Comic Renaissance, like <i>"Love And Rockets"</i>, <i>"American Flagg"</i>, and <i>"The Rocketeer"</i>, but... out of print, out of mind. Finally, all 15 issues of the severely underrated series are collected here.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Absolute Swamp Thing #3</b></font>, (DC) <small>(1986-’87)</small><br />
<i>by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette and Totleben, (+ Rick Veitch)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The final 15 issues of Alam Moore's run, in a deluxe 9.5" x 12" hardcover at 424 pages.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Miracleman: Omnibus</b></font>, (Marvel) <small>(1982-1988)</small><br />
<i>by (Alan Moore), Garry Leach, Alan Davis, and John Totleben +</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All of Alan Moore's run, 'Books One, Two, and Three', which invented the postmodern/deconstructed superhero.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Madman:<br />
The Madmaniverse Library #2, #3</b></font>, (Dark Horse) <small>(1990s-’00s)</small><br />
<i>by Mike Allred</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Collecting all of the <i>"Madman"</i> issues, specials, and crossovers together.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Astro City Metrobook</b></font>, Vol's 1 and 3, (Image) <small>(1995-'10)</small><br />
<i>by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two omnibus editions (with the third in 2023) collecting all of the lauded <i>"Astro City"</i> series together.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Sentient</b></font>, (TKO Studios) <small>(2018)</small><br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A trade of the 2018 miniseries, where a spaceship's computer has to protect and raise orphaned babies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Decorum</b></font>, (Image) <small>(2020)</small><br />
<i>by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The collected miniseries, about the most polite space assassin in the game.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Karmen</b></font>, (Image) <small>(2021)</small><br />
<i>by Guillem March</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After her demise, a woman goes on a revelatory journey with a mischievous death angel. Some amazing art, and a very touching story.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>Primordial</b></font>, (Image) <small>(2021)</small><br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Like a cross between "<a href="“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html”target=_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</a>" and Morrison's <i>"We3"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Echolands</b></font>, (Image) <small>(2021)</small><br />
<i>by J.H. Wlliams III and Haden Blackman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
J.H. Wlliams III (<i>"Promethea"</i>, <i>"Batwoman"</i>, <i>"The Sandman"</i>) is the most propulsive, versatile, and inventive artist in comics. This series, in which all genres in all art styles collide and collude at once, is the new standard.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr</b></font>, (Image) <small>(2021)</small><br />
<i>by Ram V and Filipe Andrade</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Death gets fired and is reborn as a woman in Mumbai. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll care.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Groo Meets Tarzan</b></font>, (Dark Horse) <small>(2021)</small><br />
<i>by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones (w), and Sergio Aragones and Tom Yeates (a) </i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Who doesn't love an unlikely crossover? Here's a great one: Aragones' signature cartoon barbarian mixed seamlessly with Yeates' best channeling of the Foster/Hogarth <i>"Tarzan"</i> tradition.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>The Art Of Star Wars:<br />
The Mandalorian (Season 2)</b></font>, (Abrams Books)<br />
<i>by Phil Szostak</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The behind-the-scenes concept art and design works for the popular series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>Marvel Classic Black Light Collectible Posters #2</b></font>, (Abrams ComicArts) <small>(1971)</small><br />
<i>by Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr, Gil Kane</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Marvel appealed to the early-'70s psychedelic black light poster craze with these neon eye-friers. 12 Posters at 20" x 29".<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="8080ff"><b>DC Poster Portfolio: Brian Bolland</b></font>, (DC) <small>(1980s-)</small><br />
<i>by Brian Bolland</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
20 removable posters of DC's premier front cover artist.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>DC Poster Portfolio: J.H. Williams III</b></font>, (DC) <small>(1990s-)</small><br />
<i>by J.H. Williams III</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
20 removable posters of comics' most chameleonic artist.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fortunino Matania Portfolio</b></font>, (Book Palace)<br />
<i>by text Peter Richardson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Study the great painting and illustration masters before all, such as Matania's figures, compositions, and impact.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Joaquin Sorolla, Painter Of Light</b></font>, (Skira Editore)<br />
<i>Edited by Micol Forti and Consuelo Luca de tena</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Study Sorolla's sophisticated capturing of the play of light and color.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Women Artists And The Surrealist Movement</b></font>, (Thames + Hudson) <br />
<i>by Whitney Chadwick</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A reissue of the art historian's 1985 book, expanding understanding and appreciation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Jewish Comics And Graphic Narratives: A Critical Guide</b></font>, (Bloomsbury Publishing)<br />
<i>by Matt Reingold</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Comics owe incalculable credit to Jewish creators, from Siegel + Shuster and Finger, to Eisner and Lee + Kirby, to Spiegelman and Bendis. These <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jewish-comics-and-graphic-narratives-9781350301580/" target="_blank">academic essays</a> trace the themes, impact, and works which indicate what 'Jewish Graphic Narrative' can mean.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Gladys Parker:<br />
A Life In Comics, And A Passion For Fashion</b></font>, (Hermes Books)<br />
<i>by Trina Robbins</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Parker was the symbiotic force behind the late-'30s comic strip <i>"Mopsy"</i> and her own upscale fashion line.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pulp Power:<br />
The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street + Smith Universe</b></font>, (Abrams Books)<br />
<i>by Neil McGuinness, with Dan DiDio</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A comprehensive exam of cover artists George Rozen (<i>"The Shadow"</i>) and Walter M. Baumhofer (<i>"Doc Savage"</i>), and their impact on culture.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Dark Avenger:<br />
The Strange Saga Of The Shadow</b></font>, (Odyssey)<br />
<i>by Will Murray</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The whole history of The Shadow's creation, from a radio show with Orson Welles, to Pulp avenger hero, to film and comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Holding her Own:<br />
The Exceptional Life Of Jackie Ormes</b></font>, (Orchard Books)<br />
<i>by Traci N Todd and Shannon Wright</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A new biography of the first female African American cartoonist.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>James Warren, Empire Of Monsters:<br />
The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Bill Schelly</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A reissue of the 2018 book, about the indie publisher whose magazines raised the adult level of comics, brought Filipino artisans into American comics, and relaunched Will Eisner's <i>"The Spirit"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Art Of Luis Garcia</b></font>, (Dynamite) <small>(1970s)</small><br />
<i>by David Roach</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Along with Jose Gonazales, Garcia's astounding illustrations for Warren (<i>"Vampirella"</i>) get proper spotlight.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Life and Art Of Dave Cockrum</b></font>, (TwoMorrows)<br />
<i>by Gle Cadigan</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cockrum's sleek futurism, in the mode of Manning's <i>"Magnus"</i>, defined all of the cosmic cool of the <i>"Legion Of Super-Heroes"</i> <small>(1973)</small> and <i>"The All-New X-Men"</i> <small>(1975)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>See You In San Diego:<br />
An Oral History Of Comic-Con, Fandom, And The Triumph Of Geek Culture</b></font>, (Fantagraphics)<br />
<i>by Mathew Klickstein</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The history and evolution of the ultimate comic convention.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>”Voice Of The Fire”</b></font>, (Top Shelf)<br />
<i>by Alan Moore</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A 25th anniversary edition of Moore's first prose novel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>“Illuminations: Stories”</b></font>, (Bloomsbury Publishing)<br />
<i>by Alan Moore</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The new collection of short stories, including the controversial novella, <i>"What We Can Know About Thunderman"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Alan Moore: Storytelling</b></font>, (BBC Maestro)<br />
<i>by Alan Moore</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A <a href="https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-moore/storytelling" target="_blank">BBC Maestro video course</a>, in which Moore teaches the fundamentals of writing strong and challenging stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="6666ff"><b>ALTER EGO</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The original '60s comics fanzine that pioneered all of modern fandom, with deep stories on the Golden and Silver Age creators, is an ongoing mag still edited by Roy Thomas.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Alter Ego</a>
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>BACK ISSUE!</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Dedicated to the '70s and '80s comics renaissance.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="6666ff"><b>ILLUSTRATION</b></font><br />
<small>(The Illustrated Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The best illustrators celebrated by the smartest illustration mag.<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.illustration-magazine.com" target="_blank">Illustration</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>CDQ: Character Design Quarterly</b></font><br />
<small>(3dtotal Publishing)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The state-of-the-art in character design for screen and games.<br />
➤ <a href=" L I N K " target="_blank">Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="6666ff"><b>COMICS REVUE PRESENTS</b></font><br />
<small>(Manuscript Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Ongoing reprints of classic comic strips.<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.comicsrevue.com/" target="_blank">Comics Revue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>RETROFAN</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everything pop cultural from the '60s through the '80s.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_152" target="_blank">Retrofan</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="6666ff"><b>THE COMICS JOURNAL</b></font><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The premiere scholastic graphic arts forum, now printed in an annual volume.<br />
➤ <a href="“https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/the-comics-journal”target=_blank">The Comics Journal</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="9966ff"><b>STAR TREK Explorer</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
"These are the voyages..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-trek-magazine" target="_blank">Star Trek Explorer</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="6666ff"><b>STAR WARS INSIDER</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"An energy field created by all living things..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-wars-insider" target="_blank">Star Wars Insider</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.acesweekly.co.uk/"><b>ACES WEEKLY</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Various Creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
David Lloyd (<i>"V For Vendetta"</i>) presents a digital comics subscription service for multiple independent series, such as the Eisner-nominated <i>"Why Don't You Love Me?"</i> strip.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b><a href="https://sarahcandersen.com/" target="_blank">SARA'S SCRIBBLES</a></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sara Andersen</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Absurdist doodles in four panels with brainy zing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/"><b>TOM TOMORROW</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Tom Tomorrow</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A kind of digital love-child of Trudeau and Breathed, this long-running satire of political insanity is a panacea.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="fffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/nancy" target="_blank">NANCY</a>,<br />
<i>by Olympia Jaimes</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Under a pseudonym, someone is upgrading the classic strip's mindtricks for the digital age.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive" target="_blank">PRINCE VALIANT</a>,<br />
<i>by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Schultz (<i>"Xenozoic Tales"</i>) and Yeates (<i>"Timespirits"</i>) are doing excellent work continuing Hal Foster's masterwork into the 21st century.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gemmacorrell.com/" target="_blank">Gemma Correll</a> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cleverly outwitting anxiety and cultural nonsense.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Calvin And Hobbes"</i>, by Bill Watterson</small></center><br />
<font size="6"><font color="fffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/" target="_blank">GoComics</a>,<br />
<i>by Various Creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
GoComics is the absolute go-to for comic strips. They have a wide variety of current, ongoing strips, as well the classic comic strips that everything comes from, including <i>"Alley Oop"</i>, <i>"Bloom County"</i>, <i>"Calvin And Hobbes"</i>, <i>"Doonesbury"</i>, <i>"The Far Side"</i>, <i>"Little Nemo"</i>, <i>"Lil' Abner"</i>, <i>"Mutt And Jeff"</i>, <i>"Nancy"</i> (original and new), and <i>"Peanuts"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://thenib.com" target="_blank">The Nib</a> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
RESIST!<br />
The best of contemporary editorial satire, from an array of talents.<br />
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From you, we exist.<br />
Because of you, we persist.<br />
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<center><small>The Batman (1973),<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Ron Goulart<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Jean-Claude Mézières<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Tom Veitch<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Garry Leach<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Justin Green<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Neal Adams<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> George Perez<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Tim Sale<br />
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<center><small>George Perez; Lily Renée;<br />
Kim Jung Gi; Kevin O’Neill</small></center><br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Tom Palmer<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Kevin O’Neill<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<center><h2><font color="FFFF66">ALL THE</font><br />
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<center><font color="ccff33"><i>Hard Pass all those trendy-indie<br />
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<font color="FFFF00"><i>These tunes will unscrew your overview<br />
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<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">COOL SONGS: 2022</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">COVER SONGS 2022</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">BEST REISSUES: 2022</a><br />
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<center><small>1) Wesley Bright; Unloved; Harlem Gospel Travelers;<br />
2) Los Bitchos; Bang Bang Bad Girl; La Luz;<br />
3) Lee Fields; Kae Tempest; Goat</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Calibro 35</b>, <i>”Scacco al Maestro, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2”</i></font> <small>(Italy)</small><br />
Cinematic Rock.<br />
Who is more qualified to interpret Ennio Morricone's varied and resonant film scores than Rome's best band for channeling '60s Spaghetti Western and '70s Crime Rock sounds?<br />
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<small>(see also: Daniele Luppi, Guess What, Adrian Younge)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Weyes Blood</b>, <i>"And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow"</i></font><br />
Ethereal Songwriter.<br />
Our angelic bard's response to the lockdown was to reflect inner grace. This warm hearth of lightly-alien hymnals and sly confessions is an aurora in the twilight.<br />
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<small>(see also: Judy Collins, Enya, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Tami Neilson</b>, <i>"Kingmaker"</i></font><br />
Juke Joint on Broadway.<br />
Tami is a powerhouse who belts out Opry tunes like she's at the Grand Opera. Moody, tough, epic, no nonsense, all thrills.<br />
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<small>(see also: Etta James, Shannon Shaw, Bonnie Whitmore)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Wesley Bright</b>, <i>"Must Be The Love"</i></font><br />
Party Soul.<br />
Timeless Soul grooves to wear out the floorboards at your next house party.<br />
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<small>(see also: Jr. Walker, Sam And Dave, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>La Femme</b>, <i>”Teatro Lucido”</i></font> <small>(France)</small><br />
Spanish Pop Nextlevel.<br />
Paris' hippest partiers two-step sideways into lovely Spanish Pop, with flamenco guitars, crooning sirenas, and cosmic beats.<br />
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<small>(see also: Casino Music, Air, Pepite)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Unloved</b>, <i>"The Pink Album"</i></font><br />
TripHop Vampitheater.<br />
An astounding double-length album from the best TripHop band since Portishead (known for their eerie <i>"Killing Eve"</i> songs). Edgy, spectral, sensuous, perhaps illegal somehow.<br />
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<small>(see also: Portishead, Kandle, Alexandra Savior)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Scone Cash Players</b>, <i>"Brooklyn To Brooklin"</i></font><br />
Groovy Soul.<br />
Daptone Records rations out the gyrations with this hammond organ funkiness.<br />
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<small>(see also: Ramsey Lewis, Booker T And The MG's, Soulive, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Breanna Barbara</b>, <i>"Nothin’ But Time"</i></font><br />
Edgy Psyche.<br />
Breanna punches through textural while melodic psychedelic blues like she's settling scores while stealing cars.<br />
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<small>(see also: Alice Coltrane, Nicole Atkins, Annabelle Chairlegs)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Harlem Gospel Travelers</b>, <i>”Look Up!”</i></font><br />
Funky and Soulful Gospel.<br />
Positive ravers with infectious grooves Stax and Motown would envy. Whatever your faith, you'll move with the feeling.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Staple Singers, The Chi-Lites, Rance Allen Group)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Angel Olsen</b>, <i>"Big Time"</i></font><br />
Honey-Glazed Country.<br />
The eminent singer-songwriter goes melodic, mellow, and measured, serenading the dawn.<br />
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<small>(see also: Connie Smith, Bobby Gentry, Emmylou Harris)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Orgone</b>, <i>"Lost Knights"</i></font><br />
Street Funk.<br />
Like Layne Staley getting down hardcore with '71 Funkadelic.<br />
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<small>(see also: Mandrill, Menahan Street Band, The Lions)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>La Luz</b>, <i>"La Luz (Instrumentals)"</i></font><br />
Surfstrumentals.<br />
Last year, Adrian Younge produced the expansive self-titled album by the seraphic Surf band. Now we get to luxuriate in how great they play. Atmospheric and mercurial while hummable.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Neptunas, Susan And The Surftones, Shantih Shantih, Shana Cleveland)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Mavis Staples + Levon Helm</b>, <i>”Carry Me Home”</i></font><br />
Swamp Soul.<br />
Recorded in 2011 at one of Helm's 'Midnight Ramble' jam hoedowns, this Blues and Soul barnstormer warms the heart.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Staple Singers, The Band, Robert Randolph And The Family band)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Bang Bang Band Girl</b>, <i>"12 Super Duper Extraordinary Girl Trouble Rock’n’Roll Tracks"</i></font> <small>(Netherlands/Chile)</small><br />
Garage-abilly.<br />
Like Vampirella transmitting eerie clanging rock'n'roll through your Marshall amp. Part cover songs, part run for cover.<br />
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<small>(see also: Flat Duo Jets, The Kills, Mr. Airplane Man)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Elvis Costello And The Imposters</b>, <i>"The Boy Named If"</i></font><br />
Pop Punk.<br />
The best record from 1979 about 1965 just made, with Elvis in timeless snide and snarl.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Jam, John Wesley Harding, Spoon)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Ghost Funk Orchestra</b>, <i>"A New Kind Of Love"</i></font><br />
Cinematic Funk.<br />
Seth Appelbaum composes moody soundscapes that strut and unsettle beguilingly.<br />
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<small>(see also: Ikebe Showdown, L'eclair, The Sorcerers)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Art d'Ecco</b>, <i>”After The Head Rush”</i></font> <small>(Canada)</small><br />
Nouveaux Wave.<br />
In true Bowie form, the mysterious Art pinions from Glam stomp onward into angular synth dance. Bounding bass, alien earworms, and neon noir.<br />
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<small>(see also: Roxy Music, Gary Numan, Toyah Wilcox, Dead Or Alive)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Los Bitchos</b>, <i>"Let The Festivities Begin!"</i></font><br />
Surf International.<br />
The global group from London coast Surf through every disco in all countries.<br />
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<small>(see also: La Luz, Khruangbin, Habibi)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Lee Fields</b>, <i>"Sentimental Fool"</i></font><br />
Southern Soul.<br />
Daptone Record's finest is Soul Music decked out in a suit and charm.<br />
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<small>(see also: James Brown, Charles Bradley, Robert Finley)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Lera Lynn</b>, <i>"Something More Than Love"</i></font><br />
Singer-Songwriter.<br />
All the current attention on Angel Olsen, Weyes Blood, and Cate Le Bon should also reward this limitless songwriter, who is quietly killing it every time with her sharp tunes.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sheryl Crow, Nicole Atkins, Laura Marling)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Abraxas</b>, <i>”Monte Carlo”</i></font><br />
Mind Psyche.<br />
Carolina Faruolo (former Los Bitchos) and Danny Lee Blackwell (Night Beats) craft Psyche Noir as complex as Prog and moody as soundtracks.<br />
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<small>(see also: Blackwater Holylight, Khruangbin, Melody's Echo Chamber)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Ty Segall</b>, <i>"Hello, Hi"</i></font><br />
Melodic Folk.<br />
The undisputed king of Fuzz Rock goes acoustic in the fields of the sun.<br />
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<small>(see also: Neil Young, Kurt Vile, Cass McCombs)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kae Tempest</b>, <i>"The Line Is A Curve"</i></font><br />
The King Of Rap.<br />
The poet laureate of Rap, the Hamlet of Spoken Word, makes short stories out of emotional states, with guests like Lianne La Havas and Kevin Abstract.<br />
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<small>(see also: Anne Clarke, Young Fathers)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Robert Connely Farr</b>, <i>"Shake It"</i></font><br />
Bruise Blues.<br />
Nasty, corrosive tremelo that'll rattle the nails out of your swamp shack.<br />
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<small>(see also: Tom Waits, T-Model Ford, Speedball Baby)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Goat</b>, <i>”Oh Death”</i></font> <small>(Sweden)</small><br />
Psyche Worldbeat.<br />
The mysterious tribal collective acts like Fela possessed by the spirit of Can.<br />
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<small>(see also: Kikagaku Moro, Altin Gün, Karl Hector And The Malcouns)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Father John Misty</b>, <i>"Chloe And The Next 20th Century"</i></font><br />
Variety Hour.<br />
Mr. Tillman goes uptown, with contemplative ballads and lovely harmonies lifted by string arrangements. Imagine Glen Campbell singing McCartney songs arranged by Gil Evans for a 1968 Broadway variety show.<br />
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<small>(see also: Van Dyke Parks, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marcus King</b>, <i>"Young Blood"</i></font><br />
Southern CountrySoulRock.<br />
Like Bad Company jamming with Lynyrd Skynyrd at Muscle Shoals. Marcus has a soulful voice, fiery guitar chops, and eclectic tastes.<br />
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<small>(see also: CCR, Funkadelic, Vinegar Joe, Molly Hatchet)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Kidder Friendly Club</b>, <i>"Kidder Friendly Airwaves"</i></font> <small>(Japan)</small><br />
Tokyo Merseybeat.<br />
Beatlemania is an irrepressible aspect ennobling life, like sunshine or love.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Dara Puspita, The Pebbles, The Beat Girls)</small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1964-esque.html" target="_blank">BEATLESQUE Songs: 1964-esque</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pixy Jones</b>, <i>”Bits N Bobs”</i></font><br />
Pepper Tour.<br />
The bassist for El Goodo makes his own 1967-mode Beatles album.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground, Jim Noir, Aaron Lee Tasjan)</small><br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1967-esque.html" target="_blank">BEATLESQUE Songs: 1967-esque</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>M Ross Perkins</b>, <i>"E Pluribus M Ross"</i></font><br />
Psyche Pop.<br />
The multi-talented songsmith makes his own Pop Opera cycle in the spirit of <i>"Abbey Road"</i>.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Nilsson, Emitt Rhodes, Elliott Smith)</small><br />
<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1969-esque_20.html" target="_blank">BEATLESQUE Songs: 1969-esque</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono"</i></font><br />
Y O K O .<br />
She did everything first, but took the abuse while her followers get all the acclaim. (The longest-running unchecked bias in Rock history.)<br />
Now her followers flip the focus back, covering her diverse portfolio: The Flaming Lips, David Byrne + Yo La Tengo, Death Cab For Cutie, Deerhoof, Sharon Ven Etten, Jay Som, Stephen Merritt, and more pay tribute.<br />
<br />
<small>(see also: Can, Ann Peacock, Buffalo Daughter)</small><br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-we-love-yoko-ono-or-should.html" target="_blank">Why We Love YOKO ONO (Or Should)!</a>, with 2 Music Players<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Chris St. Hilaire</b>, <i>"Traveling Man"</i> EP</font><br />
Folkadelic.<br />
After The London Souls' brilliant <i>"Here Come The Girls"</i> album <small>(2015)</small>, the Classic Rock duo split. Tash went Blues Rock, while Chris is crafting luminous Folk and Trinidadian lilt songs.<br />
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<small>(see also: George Harrison, Jim Croce, Gerry Rafferty)</small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1968-esque.html" target="_blank">BEATLESQUE Songs: 1968-esque</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>C O O L</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">S O N G S :</font><br />
<font color="FFFFFF">2 0 2 2</font></h1></center><br />
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<center><h2><font color="ffffff">All the</font> <font color="FFFF00">REAL MUSIC</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">beyond the box!</font></h2></center><br />
<center>Nevermind Gloss Pop, Stepford Idols, Karaoke Choruses <small>(<i>"woh-oo-oh"</i>)</small>, Ego Brats, Keening Emo, Plinky Twee, Brittle Bombast, Vegas Country, Smug Thug, Mope Noodling, De-mixed Throb, and Robot-o-Tune schlock! <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-why-music-sounds-worse" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<b>Here's the<br />
<font color="FFFF00">D R E A M<br />
J U K E B O X !</font></b></center><br />
<b><center>Frolic frisky to and fro<br />
like a Disco full of Crisco!</center></b><br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">COOL SONGS 2022<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
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Hear the unlimited Playlist <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6GFE4SoE7o4Ez7bR2Mb1LF?si=f8ace5f7c4d64655" target="_blank">here</a>.)</small></center><br />
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<center>This jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly.<br />
All the songs elasticize their genres.<br />
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:</center><br />
<center><i><font color="ccff33">Rockabilly!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Surf!</font> <font color="ccff33">Beat!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Garage!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Psyche!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Glam!</font> <font color="ccff33">New Wave!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Roots!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Blues!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Soul!</font> <font color="ccff33">Funk!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Africanarama!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">World!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl!</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rock!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Electro!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Alt-Rap!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Cinematic!</font> <font color="ffffff">RESIST!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><small>La Perra Blanco; Wasurete Motels;<br />
The Courettes <font size="1">1</font>; Tammi Savoy</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photos: 1- Morten Madsen</font></center><br />
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<font color="00ffbf">16 hours</font><font color="00cc00"> of thinky, wiggly music</font>, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Rockabilly</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
JD McPherson, La Perra Blanco, Lily Locksmith, The Surfrajettes, João Gordo, Bang Bang Band Girl, Wasurete Motels, Twin Temple, and Bloodshot Bill.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Surf / Shindig</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Hoodoo Tones, The Silhouettes, Amphibian Man, The Manakooras, Los Daytonas, Shawn Lee, La Luz, Messer Chups, The Hawkmen, The Courettes, and Lizzie No.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Beat / Garage</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Kidder Friendly Club, The Kafers, Frank Lee Sprague, Elvis Costello, Televisionaries, The Mocks, Benny Trokan, Pixy Jones, Autoramas, Shanda And The Howlers, Gee Tee, The Fuzztones, Tammi Savoy, The Len Price 3, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, Jon Spencer And The HITmakers, Tess Parks, and The Black Angels.<br />
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<center><small>Melody's Echo Chamber; Toro y Moi;<br />
Ty Segall; Art d'Ecco</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Psychedelic / Beatlesque</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Tuners, Melody's Echo Chamber, Adrian Belew, Breanna Barbara, M Ross Perkins, Melody's Echo Chamber, Caleb Nichols, Sloan, Liam Gallagher, Julian Lennon, Michael Rault, La Luz, Chris St. Hilaire, Richard Norris, Ty Segall, King Tuff, Kendra Foster, Toro y Moi, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Dungen, Annabelle Chairlegs, Nebula, and Steel Beans.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Glam / Motorik</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Art d'Ecco, Paul Cauthen, Young Fathers, Doctor Explosion, Peace De Résistance, Art d'Ecco, Caleb Landry Jones, Penza Penza, and Minami Deutsch.<br />
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<center><small>Piya Malik; Prakash Slim;<br />
Leyla McCalla; Father John Misty</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Disco / Punk / New Wave</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Seratones, Lucius, Say She She + Piya Malik, Art d'Ecco, Bad Breeding, Osees, Belly Jelly, Secret Agent Headcheese, Billiam, The Bug Club, The Paranoyds, Glove, and LCD Soundsystem.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33"> Alt-Roots</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Melissa Carper, Willie Nelson, Jason McNiff, Prakash Slim, Chris St. Hilaire, Weyes Blood, Ty Segall, Aoife Nessa Frances, Leyla McCalla, Courtney Marie Andrews, Stephen Bailey, Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Bailey Bigger, and The Cactus Blossoms.<br />
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<center><small>Tami Neilson; Marcus King;<br />
Danielle Ponder; Bobby Oroza</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Blues</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
William Bell, Adia Victoria, The Black Keys ft. Billy Gibbons, Hank Williams Jr, Tami Neilson, Larkin Poe, GA-20, Shemekia Copeland, Robert Connely Farr, Ivor S.K., Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band, and Twanguero.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Soul</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Charley Crockett, Marcus King, Miko Marks, Scone Cash Players, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Gabriels, Greyhounds, Danielle Ponder, Lee Fields, Ruthie Foster, Bobby Oroza, Alanna Royale, Jalen Ngonda, Kendra Morris, Wesley Bright, Nicky Egan, The Limboos, Jean Carn, Monophonics, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Say She She, Say She She + Piya Malik, Lizzie No, and Mamas Gun.<br />
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<center><small>Trombone Shorty; Eddie9V;<br />
Orgone</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Funk</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Ghost Funk Orchestra, Ikebe Shakedown, The Winston Brothers, SAULT, Mamas Gun, The Diasonics, Adrian Quesada, Surprise Chef, Thurteen, Lettuce ft. Bootsy Collins, Tra'zae Clinton + Danny Bedrosian, Fantastic Negrito, Jorge Drexler, Ural Thomas And The Pain, Eddie9V, The Mighty Mocambos, Trombone Shorty, Orgone, Boulevards, and Jean Carn.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Africanarama</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
The Kevin Fingier Collective, The Go! Team + Star Feminine Band, The Liberators, WITCH, Vusi Mahlasela, Oumou Sangaré, Vieux Farka Touré, C'mon Tigre ft. Xenia Rubinos, Charlotte Adigéry + Bolis Pupul, and Goat.<br />
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<center><small>Kikagaku Moyo;<br />
Las Cafeteras; Abraxas</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">World</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Kikagaku Moyo, Melt Yourself Down, Palatine, Kacimi, La Femme, Natalia Lafourcade, Las Cafeteras, Calexico, Adrian Quesada, New Regency Orchestra, Panda Bear, Lucrecia Dalt, Los Bitchos, Abraxas, Altin Gün, Charif Megarbane, and Arooj Aftab ft. Anoushka Shankar.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Reggae</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Jr Thomas And The Volcanos, The Soul Chance ft. Wesley Bright, The Interrupters, and Horace Andy.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Beth Hart, Las Odio, The Darts (U.S.), Deerhoof, Wet Leg, The Linda Lindas, Kidder Friendly Club, Ghost Car, Special Interest, Petrol Girls, Arre! Arre!, Tallies, Courtney And The Wolves, and Deerhoof.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rock</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Party Dozen, Spoon, Thao, Aidan Baker, Mitski, Jean Dawson, Wet Leg, Ecstatic Vision, Private Lives, Iggy Pop, Marina Herlop, Weak Signal, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Katy J Pearson.<br />
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<center><small>The Darts (U.S.);<br />
The Linda Lindas;<br />
Yeah Yeah Yeahs</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Electro</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Viagra Boys, The C.I.A., Cosey Fanni Tutti, ADULT., Christine And The Queens, and Sara Bareilles.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rap</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Kae Tempest + Kevin Abstract, Chuck D + Bob Log III, Jake Blount, Kae Tempest, Lupe Fiasco, Ezra Collective ft. Kojey Radical, Moor Mother, Danger Mouse + Black Thought , Saul Williams, and Adn Maya Colectivo.<br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">Cinematic / Soundtracks</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Jairus Sharif, LEYA, Bill Orcutt, Ty Segall, Saul Williams, Katalyst, Garrett Saracho, The Mighty Mocambos, Charif Megarbane, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bear McCreary ft. Raya Yarbrough + Griogair Labhruidh, Calibro 35, Black Lips, Night Beats, Pixies, Mary Ann Hawkins, Humanga Danga, Daniel Pemberton, Mick Jagger, Fred Pallem + Le Sacre du Tympan, Japanese Television, Lera Lynn + Arnaud Roy, Lera Lynn, Unloved, Theodore Shapiro, Michael Giacchino, Ewan McGregor, John Williams, Jeremy Brauns, Bear McCreary ft. Fiona Apple, and Bear McCreary ft. Megan Richards.<br />
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<center><small>Christine And The Queens; Saul Williams;<br />
Chuck D</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font color="00ccff">•</font> <font color="ccff33">RESIST</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> <font color="00ccff">•</font></b></center><br />
Spaceheads, The Frightnrs, M Ross Perkins, Ann Wilson, Lera Lynn, S.G. Goodman, Tami Neilson, Rainbow Girls, Petrol Girls, Kek'star + Gil Scott-Heron, Creative Culture Co., Orgone, Charlie Hodson-Prior, Annika Chambers, Pink Floyd ft. Andriy Khlyvnyuk, Breanna Barbara, Kae Tempest, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, and Thee Sacred Souls.<br />
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<center><small>Lera Lynn; Breanna Barbara;<br />
Gil Scott-Heron; Rainbow Girls.</small></center><br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>C O V E R</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">S O N G S</font><br />
<font color="FFFFFF">2 0 2 2</font></h1></center><br />
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<center><h2><font color="ffffff">All the Best</font><br />
<font color="FFFF00">COVER VERSIONS</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">of the year!</font></h2></center><br />
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Music is the throughline of the human spirit.<br />
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Singing timeless songs in times of uncertainty brings us solace, offers out support, and bonds us in communion.<br />
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In (still another) year that separated us from each other, sharing songs reaffirmed us as a people, honored our origins, and lit the way for the young.<br />
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There were an abundance of cover songs in 2022. Through them, we sought reflection, revelation, and renewal. Here’s a playlist of our mutual journey.<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">COVER SONGS 2022<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<small>List = <b>Original By</b> / <i>Cover Artist</i><br />
Songs are sequenced in the chronological order of the Originals.</small><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">1920s-'50s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Traditional)</small></b></font> / <i>Taj Mahal</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Trad.)</small></b></font> / <i>Dashawn Hickman</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Trad.)</small></b></font> / <i>Adia Victoria</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Groucho Marx</b></font> / <i>Kula Shaker</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>“Sonny Boy” Williamson</b></font> / <i>Mud Morganfield</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Mississippi Fred McDowell</b></font> / <i>Prakash Slim; The William Loveday Intention</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Fain/Kahal)</small></b></font> / <i>Cat Power</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Traditional)</small></b></font> / <i>Sarah Brown</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Merle Travis</b></font> / <i>Nina Hagen</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(Lieber/Stoller)</small> Big Mama Thornton</b></font> / <i>The Record Company; Shonka Dukureh</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Junior Parker</b></font> / <i>Justin Pickard And The Thunderbird Winos</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Ruth Brown</b></font> / <i>Tammi Savoy</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Cat Power; The Surfrajettes;<br />
Willie Nelson; Mavis Staples</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'60s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ffbf00"><b>Rev. Gary Davis</b></font> / <i>Gina Sicilia</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bobby “Bue” Bland</b></font> / <i>Angela Strehli</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nina Simone</b></font> / <i>Diunna Greenleaf</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>The Surfrajettes</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Autoramas</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Zombies</b></font> / <i>Watkins Family Hour</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Dionne Warwick</b></font> / <i>Lake Street Dive</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Who</b></font> / <i>The Gold Needles</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>The Greyboy Allstars</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Troggs</b></font> / <i>Bang Bang Band Girl</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nancy Sinatra</b></font> / <i>Palatine</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Ennio Morricone</b></font> / <i>Calibro 35</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Donovan</b></font> / <i>The William Loveday Intention</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Willie Nelson</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Kenny Rogers And The First Edition</b></font> / <i>The Soul Jacket</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Zombies</b></font> / <i>The Teskey Brothers</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Kinks</b></font> / <i>Publicity Stunt</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Association</b></font> / <i>The Courettes + The Association</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Toni Green</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Peter Cooke</b></font> / <i>The Shadracks</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Impressions</b></font> / <i>Mavis Staples</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Merle Haggard</b></font> / <i>Eli "Paperboy" Reed</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Ennio Morricone</b></font> / <i>Calibro 35</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nancy Sinatra + Lee Hazelwood</b></font> / <i>Whitehorse</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Miles Davis</b></font> / <i>Club d'Elf</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Stooges</b></font> / <i>Tropical F_ck Storm</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Led Zeppelin</b></font> / <i>Otu</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Delfonics</b></font> / <i>The Delfonics + Budapest Symphony Orchestra</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Norah Jones</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>The Bright Light Social Hour</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Buddy Guy</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Honeyboy Slim And The Bad Habits</i> <font color="#b38f00">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>The Cactus Blossoms</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Chris Stapleton; Florence And The Machine;<br />
Thundercat; Ibeyi</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'70s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00cc00"><b>Mountain</b></font> / <i>Annika Chambers</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Bobby Gentry</b></font> / <i>Margo Price</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Beach Boys</b></font> / <i>She & Him</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b><small>Trad.</small>/ Simon And Garfunkel</b></font> / <i>The Surfrajettes</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Cowboy Junkies</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>George Harrison</b></font> / <i>Annika Chambers</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>George Harrison</b></font> / <i>George Is Lord</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Gil Scott Heron</b></font> / <i>Gil Scott Heron + Kek'star</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Who</b></font> / <i>Lisa Mychols And Super 8</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Marvin Gaye</b></font> / <i>Night Owls</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Johnny Cash</b></font> / <i>Chuck D + Bob Log III</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Al Green</b></font> / <i>Chris Stapleton</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Beck</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Stevie Wonder </b></font> / <i>Father John Misty</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Gil Scott Heron</b></font> / <i>The Greyboy Allstars</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Hound Dog Taylor</b></font> / <i>GA-20</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Nino Rota</b></font> / <i>Didi Wray</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Steely Dan</b></font> / <i>The Fearless Flyers</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Led Zeppelin</b></font> / <i>Beth Hart</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Stooges</b></font> / <i>Florence And The Machine</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Robin Trower</b></font> / <i>Ann Wilson</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>John Hartford</b></font> / <i>Sam Bush</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Chris Bell</b></font> / <i>Wednesday</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Earth, Wind, And Fire</b></font> / <i>Charles Stepney</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Steve Miller Band</b></font> / <i> Thundercat</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Clifton Chenier</b></font> / <i>Sir Rod And The Blues Doctors</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Runaways</b></font> / <i>The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs + Cherie Currie</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>Solitary Friends</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Ibibio Sound Machine</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Donna Summer</b></font> / <i>Krontjong Devils</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Kraftwerk</b></font> / <i>The Routes</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Damned</b></font> / <i>Tony Hawk</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Suicide</b></font> / <i>Guards</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Iggy Pop</b></font> / <i>JD McPherson</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Betty Everett</b></font> / <i>Weyes Blood</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Gerry Rafferty</b></font> / <i>Brendan Benson</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Undertones</b></font> / <i>The Dollyrots</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>The Surfrajettes</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>Krontjong Devils</i> <font color="#86b300">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>Juliana Eye</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'80s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>Joy Division</b></font> / <i>Amythyst Kiah</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Yoko Ono</b></font> / <i>Japanese Breakfast</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Grace Jones</b></font> / <i>Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Black Flag</b></font> / <i>Ibeyi</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Alan Parsons Project</b></font> / <i>AWOLNATION, ft. Beck</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Go-Go’s</b></font> / <i>Jennie Vee</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Wham! </b></font> / <i>The Soul Chance</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b><small>(McCartney)</small> The Everly Brothers</b></font> / <i>The Whitmore Sisters</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Eurythmics</b></font> / <i>Ann Wilson</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Madonna</b></font> / <i>The Bright Light Social Hour</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Church</b></font> / <i>Lilly Hiatt</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Metallica</b></font> / <i>Ramin Djawadi</i> <font color="#9999ff">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Pixies</b></font> / <i>JD McPherson</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'90s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ff8000"><b>Traveling Wilburys</b></font> / <i>Dr. John + Aaron Neville</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Red Hot Chili Peppers</b></font> / <i>Tashaki Miyaki</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>The Brothers Comatose, ft. AJ Lee</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>PJ Harvey</b></font> / <i>Nilüfer Yanya</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Mazzy Star</b></font> / <i>Valerie June</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nine Inch Nails</b></font> / <i>St. Vincent</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nine Inch Nails</b></font> / <i>Jehnny Beth</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nick Cave</b></font> / <i>Anna Calvi</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Nirvana</b></font> / <i>Otu</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Lucinda Williams</b></font> / <i>The Band Of Heathens</i> <font color="#b34700">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Sleater-Kinney</b></font> / <i>Courtney Barnett</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'00s and '10s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00ffbf"><b>Gnarls Barkley</b></font> / <i>Marcus King</i> <font color="#00997a">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Jimmy Duck Holmes</b></font> / <i>Robert Connely Farr</i> <font color="#00997a">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>David Lynch</b></font> / <i>Marissa Nadler</i>.<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">BEST REISSUES 2022<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1930s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b> Skip James</b>, <i>"The Complete 1931 Sessions"</i></font><br />
James' high, kind voice infuses the humanity into these Blues classics.<br />
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<center><small>Sun Records;<br />
Ella Fitzgerald</small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1950s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On: Rockabilly and Beyond at Sun Records”</i></font> <small>(1952+)</small><br />
An entry record to Sun Records on its 70th anniversary: the Who's Who roster includes Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Billy Lee Riley, and Charlie Rich.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Carl Perkins</b>, <i>"The King Of Rockabilly"</i></font> <small>(late-’50s)</small><br />
The country gentleman of Rock, everybody's friend, whose standards have been covered by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Black Sabbath, Chris Isaak, and you, if you're smart.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Tarheel Slim</b>, <i>"Tarheel’s Essentials”</i></font> <small>(late-’50s)</small><br />
Proving Rockabilly had no color, Tarheel clanged and drawled with the best of them.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Ella Fitzgerald</b>, <i>"Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook"</i></font> <small>(1958)</small><br />
In the late-'50s, producer Norman Granz and Ella recorded a series of lush studio albums spotlighting songwriters which changed the industry: they elevated past pop into canon standards, brought sainthood to the writers, saved and defined Ella's career, established Verve Records, and brought Jazz into everyone's living room.<br />
Here, Ella takes it to the people.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake!"</i><br />
<i>"Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’:<br />
The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties"</i></small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFFFF">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">1960s</font> <font color="FFFFFF">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Sarah Vaughan</b>, <i>"Sarah Slightly Classical"</i></font> <small>(1963)</small><br />
Orchestral Jazz, lilted by the sassy class of the divine Vaughan.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake!"</i></font><br />
The sixth volume in Ace Records' ongoing 'Girls With Guitars' series, spotlighting all-female (and some female-fronted) bands of the '60s Beat and Garage scenes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Animals</b>, <i>"The Animals”, “The Animals On Tour”, “Animals On Track, “Animalisms”</i></font> <small>(1964-’66)</small><br />
The original four albums, produced by Micky Most, are remastered for vinyl reissue.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Sunny And The Sunliners</b>, <i>"Mr. Brown Eyed Soul, Vol. 2"</i></font><br />
Soul is the heart, and everyone can open theirs. This Chicano band from Texas proved it true.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’: The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties"</i></font><br />
With all the focus on the British Invasion and its blues-based pop, at last a compilation now honors their parallel brothers and sisters. As immigrant waves began expanding Britain, you can actually hear the shift from Soul Pop into High Life, Ska, and Rock Steady.<br />
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<center><small><i>"Revolver"</i> Box Set</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Beatles</b>, <i>"Revolver"</i></font> <small>(1966)</small><br />
A box set essaying the essential album, with state-of-the-art mixes, unreleased demos and rehearsals, and more in deluxe packaging.<br />
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If your band creates eclectic songs, with adventurous arrangements, and makes art that folks can ponder and feel, it's because this timeless album templated how to do it, and showed record companies it would sell and critics that popular music is an art form.<br />
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<center><small>Dara Puspita; Bobbie Gentry;<br />
<i>"Heroes And Villains"</i>; Elton John</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Dara Puspita</b>, <i>"Burung Kaka Tua"</i></font><br />
The all-female Beatles from Indonesia. This long-overdue compilation doesn't have everything, but includes many of their crack tunes. More please.<br />
<small>(The 1967 EP shown above is an example, not the album cover.)</small><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>John Carter</b>, <i>"My World Fell Down: The John Carter Story"</i></font> <small>(mid-’60s-early-‘70s)</small><br />
A retrospective of the songwriter from The Ivy League who wrote many hits for other artists, like Brenda Lee, Herman's Hermits, The Troggs, and Sagittarius.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bobbie Gentry</b>, <i>"The Girl From Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters"</i></font> <small>(1967-’71)</small><br />
Bobby did it all -Swamp Rock, Country, Pop duets, Soul, Funky- and then disappeared. This new remastered box set contains all 7 of her albums, plus copious bonus tracks for each, and the <i>“Live At The BBC”</i> album <small>(rec. 1968)</small>, too.<br />
<small>(The 1968 album shown above is an example, not the box set cover.)</small><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Heroes And Villains: The Sound Of Los Angeles 1965-68"</i></font><br />
Sunshine Psyche from all of Brian Wilson's competition. Grapefruit's astute compilation works as a fine companion to Rhino Records' <i>"Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968"</i> box set and their 'Psychedelic Pop Nuggets' series.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Monkees</b>, <i>"Headquarters"</i></font> <small>(1967)</small><br />
On their third album, The PreFab Four broke free, ditching the studio machine to write and play everything themselves. This remastered box set surveys the whole affair, with extras galore.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b> Elton John</b>, <i>"Regimental Sgt. Zippo"</i></font> <small>(rec. 1967)</small><br />
Elton John's lost debut album, which was never released properly until now. In finest <i>"Sgt. Pepper"</i> mode here, he was already bringing his piano Soul into Baroque Pop.<br />
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<center><small>Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood; William Bell<br />
The Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Stooges</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Living Daylights</b>, <i>”Let’s Live For Today: The Complete Recordings”</i></font><br />
The British band did the song before The Grass Roots' hit, and now all of their unreleased works come out of the vault.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Moving Sidewalks</b>, <i>"Flash"</i></font><br />
Billy Gibbons before ZZ Top, in a strong Texas psyche band with some real blues bite.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Dana Gillespie</b>, <i>”Foolish Seasons”</i></font> <small>(1968)</small><br />
Later known for work with David Bowie, Dana debuted with this rare gem, a warm pop record with facets of Psyche, Folk, and Jazz.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nancy Sinatra + Lee Hazlewood</b>, <i>"Nancy And Lee"</i></font> <small>(1968)</small><br />
The cowboy and the angel. Pairing the woozy troubadore with the pop chanteuse was deranged genius, a classic album of odd tempos, cinematic vistas, and beat psalms. <br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>William Bell</b>, <i>”Never Like This Before: The Complete ‘Blue’ Stax Singles 1961-1968”</i></font><br />
The great Stax Records singer behind <i>"Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday"</i> has so much more Soul to offer.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Ella Fitzgerald</b>, <i>"Live At Montreaux 1969"</i></font><br />
Ella was the first mainstream artist to take The Beatles seriously, covering a swingin' <i>"Can't By Me Love"</i> in 1964. Still hyper hip here, she does <i>"Hey Jude"</i> and Cream's <i>"Sunshine Of Your Love"</i> (!) for the jazz set.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Jimi Hendrix Experience</b>, <i>”Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 (Live)”</i></font><br />
From the band's last North American tour, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer himself.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Stooges</b>, <i>”The Stooges”</i></font> <small>(1969 okay)</small><br />
The debut of the godfathers of Punk, remastered here for vinyl reissue.<br />
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<center><small>David Bowie; Neil Young<br />
Joni Mitchell; Curtis Mayfield</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Affinity</b>, <i>"Affinity"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
A Psyche and Prog band, known for their overhaul of <i>"I Am The Walrus"</i> and the herculean wail of Linda Hoyle.<br />
(Also, check out Linda's classic solo album, <i>"Pieces Of Me"</i> <small>[1971]</small>.)<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Piero Umiliani</b>, <i>"Paesaggi"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
Easily the grooviest composer in the Cinecitta Studios pantheon, the shapeshifter twirls through global Lounge on this side project.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>"Divine Symmetry: The Journey To 'Hunky Dory'"</i></font><br />
A box set charting the complex evolution of the breakthrough <i>"Hunky Dory"</i> album <small>(1971)</small>, with remasters, rarities, demos, and live sessions.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Yes</b>, <i>"Fragile"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The Yes catalog has been remastered, and all have their merit, but this one is The One. If <i>"Sgt. Pepper"</i> unleashed all the possibilities that Prog Rock would explore, this dynamic and tuneful album is the one that fulfilled them best.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Elton John</b>, <i>"Madman Across The Water"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
Recorded under the spell of Leon Russell and Randy Newman, this country rocker gets a deluxe box set array.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b>, <i>"Harvest"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The country classic gets an expanded box set. Also, the 1971 documentary, <i>"Neil Young: Harvest Time"</i>, about the making of the album is released for the first time.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Joni Mitchell</b>, <i>"The Asylum Albums (1972-1975)"</i></font><br />
It turned out that Joni's fine folk albums were just the warm-up. This next phase of bold sonic expemimentation created some of the best and most essential albums of the decade, such as <i>"Court And Spark"</i> and <i>"The Hissing Of Summer Lawns"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Branko Mataja</b>, <i>"Over Fields And Mountains"</i></font> <small>(1973; mid-'80s)</small><br />
A Croat POW of WWII, who became a guitar maker in LA. His rare albums get proper spotlight, with their haunting homeland melodies and unique sounds.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Curtis Mayfield</b>, <i>"Superfly"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
The essential Funk soundtrack. After leading The Impressions through the '60s, Curtis hit superstardom with this stunningly honest dissection of street reality that you can dance to.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>War</b>, <i>"The World Is A Ghetto", "Deliver The Word"</i></font> <small>(1972; 1973)</small><br />
The whole '70s War catalog, including the first two albums fronted by Eric Burdon, are now reissued on vinyl. They are all formidable, but everyone should check out these two masterstrokes above all.<br />
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<center><small>Fanny; T. Rex;<br />
Staple Singers; Roxy Music</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fanny</b>, <i>"Charity Ball”, “Fanny Hill"</i></font><br />
The first all-female band signed to make major label albums. Last year, the first <i>"Fanny"</i> album <small>(1970)</small> was reissued, and now the excellent second and third albums have followed. Buy all, watch <a href="https://www.fannythemovie.com/" target="_blank">the movie</a>, tell friends.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>"The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
When Boogie Rock met Baroque Art. This is ground zero for all the glams, punks, new romantics, abstracters, and gender-enders to come.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>T. Rex</b>, <i>"The Slider"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
Essential Glam. You should own <i>"Electric Warrior"</i> <small>(1971)</small> and <i>"The Slider"</i> <small>(1972)</small>. If you don't, there's still time to save yourself.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Beach Boys</b>, <i>"Sail On Sailor - 1972"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The albums <i>"Carl And The Passions"</i> <small>(1972)</small> and <i>"Holland"</i> <small>(1973)</small>, with tides of alternate tracks and rareties.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Staple Singers</b>, <i>"Be Altitude: Respect Yourself"</i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
The absolute pinnacle of Stax Records, Mark 2. <i>"This World"</i>, <i>"Respect Yourself"</i>, and <i>"I'll Take You There"</i>. If you don't own this one, I don't even know what to say for you that the title song didn't already.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Young-Holt Unlimited</b>, <i>"Plays Super Fly"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
The groovy instro' duo gets funky with covers of Curtis Mayfield, The Spinners, The Stylistics, and The Carpenters.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Roxy Music</b>, <i>"For Your Pleasure", "Avalon"</i></font> <small>(1972-’82)</small><br />
For their current reunion tour, the remastered catalog has been reissued. All great, all different, but the crown jewels are the art rock second, <i>"For Your Pleasure"</i> <small>(1973)</small>, and the majestic finale, <i>"Avalon"</i> <small>(1982)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ennio Morricone</b>, <i>"Quando L’Amore e Sensualita"</i></font> <small>(1973)</small><br />
As different as his prolific output was in styles, so were the tunes within any soundtrack. Here, terse suspense, cooing erotica, tubular bells, fuzzy funk, plus.<br />
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<center><small>Blondie; <i>"Savage's 1977-1979"</i>;<br />
The Rutles; <i>"Revenge Of The She-Punks"</i></small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Piombo - Italian Crime Soundtracks From The Years Of Lead (1973-1981)"</i></font><br />
Every cratedigger and Funk fan knows that '70s crime soundtracks are the joint, with Funk-Rock blowouts and Jazzy breaks. Here's a good sampler.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Yoko Ono + Plastic Ono Super Band</b>, <i>"Let’s Have A Dream - 1974 One Step Festival Special Edition"</i></font><br />
Yoko headlines the first major Japanese rock festival, backed by Steve Khan, Andy Muson, Rick Marotta, Steve Gadd, Don Grolnick, and The Brecker Brothers.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Staples Jr. Singers</b>, <i>"When Do We Get Paid"</i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
Young teens with startling maturity and vocals, belting out soulful Gospel in the spirit of their heroes, The Staple Singers.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Junie Morrison</b>, <i>"‘Junie’ Live At Dooley’s, 1976"</i></font><br />
Junie, the one-man Funk band, doing his solo thing in between leaving The Ohio Players and joining Funkadelc.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Troggs</b>, <i>"The Troggs Tapes"</i></font> <small>(1976)</small><br />
A strong reunion captured on a lost album, right in the hinge between Hard Rock and Punk around the corner.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Blondie</b>, <i>"Against The Odds: 1974-1982"</i></font><br />
The definitive overview of the evolution of CBGB's finest Pop band.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Jon Savage’s 1977-1979 (Symbols Clashing Everywhere)"</i></font><br />
The acclaimed writer (<i>"Englands Dreaming"</i>) curates the exhilerating style chaos of the late-'70s: Punk, Dub, Electro, PostPunk, Psychobilly, Art Pop, Garage Revival, and more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b>, <i>"Live At The El Mocambo 1977"</i></font><br />
Playing at a small Toronto club as a tour warm-up, they blew it the first night, and then kicked history the second.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Les Rallizes Dénudés</b>, <i>"’77 Live"</i></font><br />
The long-lived Japanese Psyche-Noize band with songs a year long peel the paint off the walls.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Dennis Bovell</b>, <i>"The DuBMASTER: The Essential Anthology"</i></font><br />
An overview of the Dub maestro, his hits and his productions.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Rutles</b>, <i>"The Rutles"</i></font> <small>(1978)</small><br />
For Eric Idle's TV mockumentary based on The Beatles, Neil Innes and Ollie Halsall crafted a faux retrospective of songs so brilliant that they could be the real thing. Loved by all.<br />
(Also check out the deeply underrated sequel, <i>"Archeology"</i> <small>[1996]</small>.)<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Revenge Of The She-Punks: Compilation Inspired By The Book By Vivien Goldman"</i></font><br />
Musician and journalist Goldman's 2019 book about Punk women from the '70s to now gets a box set soundtrack.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Jerry Goldsmith</b>, <i>"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"</i></font> <small>(1979)</small><br />
Faced with the musical history of the <i>'Star Trek'</i> TV series and the smash hit STAR WARS score by John Williams, Goldsmith nailed it with a new score by turns stately, industrial, and sublime. It reset the standard, from the <i>"Star Trek" The Next Generation"</i> theme on out.<br />
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<center><small>The B-52's; The Clash;<br />
Prince And The Revolution; Bad Brains</small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFFFF">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">1980s</font> <font color="FFFFFF">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The B-52's</b>, <i>"Wild Planet"</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
The first album was perfect, and then they matched it again. Ricky Wilson was an alien Surf guitar genius.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Alessandro Alessandroni</b>, <i>"Alessandroni Proibito"</i></font> <small>(1976-'81)</small><br />
Morricone's secret weapon was Alessandroni: he did all the whistling, guitar riffs, and chorals on the spaghetti westerns. He also composed soundtracks, like these rare gems for softcore films.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>DEVO</b>, <i>"Live 1981"</i></font><br />
Touring for <i>"Freedom Of Choice"</i> in the advent of Reagan, the band is tough, pissed, and revved in revolt.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The Selecter</b>, <i>"Celebrate The Bullet"</i></font> <small>(1981)</small><br />
The excellent Ska band from the 2-Tone movement expands their palette, fronted by Pauline Black.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Clash</b>, <i>"Combat Rock + The People’s Hall"</i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
The final real Clash album, which broke the band, to the world and then apart.<br />
Behind the scenes, guitarist Mick Jones had led an album called <i>"Rat Patrol Form Fort Bragg"</i>, which got truncated and overdubbed as <i>"Combat Rock"</i>.<a href="https://www.popmatters.com/clash-album-that-never-was" target="_blank">></a> They should have remastered and finally released the original (ahem), but the added bonus sessions are nice.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Prince And The Revolution</b>, <i>"Prince And The Revolution: Live"</i></font> <small>(1985)</small><br />
When Prince was the King of the world, riding the phenomenal success of <i>"Purple Rain"</i> into glory.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Les Calamités</b>, <i>"Encore ! 1983-1987"</i></font><br />
While The Go-Go's chimed sunny '60s Pop in the states, these chipper songbirds did the same for France.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Bad Brains</b>, <i>"Quickness"</i></font> <small>(1989)</small><br />
Hardcore Punk like a mofo. Backstage -at lightning speed- the band had fallen apart, run through new memebers, regrouped, and re-recorded. Play at 11.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1990s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Smithereens</b>, <i>"The Lost Album"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
In between labels, the tough Power Pop band recorded at their own expense, and shelved it when the next label came.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Juliana Hatfield Three</b>, <i>"Become What You Are"</i></font> <small>(1993)</small><br />
A potent blend of teen girl shoegaze and rumbling snarl guitar, like Blake Babies turning into Crazy Horse.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>"Brilliant Adventure EP"</i></font> <small>(1995)</small><br />
Now released as a standalone from a recent box set, this collects two songs left off of <i>"Outside"</i> and two live tracks.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Robert Gordon/ Chris Spedding</b>, <i>"Hellafied"</i></font> <small>(rec. 1998)</small><br />
An unreleased album of the premiere Rockabilly singer and guitarist, rip-roarin'.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFFFF">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">2000-2022</font> <font color="FFFFFF">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Joe Strummer</b>, <i>"Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years"</i></font> <small>(1999-'03)</small><br />
Dark Horse Records, reactivated by Dhani Harrison, essays the great second act of Strummer, reviving the best spirit of The Clash with global adventurism.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Broadcast</b>, <i>"Maida Vale Sessions"</i></font> <small>(1996-'03)</small><br />
Maida Vale was the former roller rink turned recording studio where the BBC taped all of their great Rock guests. Here are the sessions of the experimental Pop band, led by the late Trish Keenan.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Stooges</b>, <i>"A Fire Of Life"</i></font> <small>(2003; 2006)</small><br />
The incendiary reunion tour, still molten.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Edan</b>, <i>"Beauty And The Beat"</i></font> <small>(2005)</small><br />
The <i>"Paul's Boutique"</i> of the 21st century, with killer rhymes, collage hopscotch, and chuffed vibes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Kills</b>, <i>"No Wow (The Tchad Blake Mix 2022)"</i></font> <small>(rec. 2004)</small><br />
The original album by the Garage Punks, plus a new vibrant remix by the noted producer Tchad Blake (Los Lobos, Cibo Matta).<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The Limiñanas</b>, <i>"Electrified (Best Of 2009-2022)"</i></font><br />
Garage Psyche by the Spanish couple, with sonic dalliances and special guests on the joyride.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Courettes</b>, <i>"Back In Mono (B-Sides And Outtakes)"</i></font><br />
A companion to last year's <i>"Back In Mono"</i>, by the Brazil/Denmark couple who combine Girl Group with Garage Rock.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Brian Wilson</b>, <i>"Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road"</i></font><br />
The promised soundtrack to the 2021 documentary, notable for some new songs and unreleased songs from the '90s.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Robert Johnson and Punchdrunks</b>, <i>"Solna, Texas (1992-2022)"</i></font><br />
Brutal guitar reverb of the highest disorder, scoring mind-movies for the outlander and the outlandish.<br />
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Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-64660701553525928312023-01-15T12:34:00.000-08:002024-02-22T21:31:54.732-08:00BEST MOVIES + TV: 2022<br />
<center><font color="ffffff"><b><i>The Great, The Good, and The Interesting!</i></b></font></center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">BEST MOVIES: 2022</a><br />
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;"><ul><li> <a href="#C1A">Drama</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1B">Comedy</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1C">Dream</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1D">Nightmare</a></li></ul></div>
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<li> <a href="#C1E">Mystery</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C1F">Heroes</a></li>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">BEST DOCUMENTARIES: 2022</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">BEST TV: 2022</a><br />
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;"><ul><li> <a href="#C3A">Drama</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3B">Mini-Series</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3C">Dream</a></li></ul></div>
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<li> <a href="#C3D">Animation</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3E">Heroes</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3F">Comedy</a></li><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">BEST RESTORATION</a><br />
<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <a href="#C5">C R I T E R I O N</a><br />
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<small>• This will often spotlight directors for special merit.<br />
But Auteur Theory is a shoebox; films are a collaborative effort with everyone involved.</small><br />
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<small>• Because of distribution hurdles during the pandemic, films made before 2022 have their date in italics.</small><br />
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<center><font color="008ae6">Spoiler-free film summations in <i>italics</i>.</font></center><br />
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<center>"And... <i>Action!</i>"</center><br />
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<center><small>Graphic by <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com" target="_blank">Tym Stevens</a></small></center><br />
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<center><br /><h1><b><font color="ffe300">B E S T</font><br />
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<a name="C1A"></a><font color="ffffff"><center><h1><b>T H I N K</b></h1></center></font><br />
<center>Dramas, Histories, and Thought</center><br />
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<center><small>CLARA SOLA;<br />
SMALL BODY</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CLARA SOLA</b></i></font> (Costa Rica) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The odd woman in the forest village may have inner power.</i></font><br />
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Living in poverty in the jungle, the fragile and alienated Clara begins sensing there is more to life. Can she find a way out of local limits for what she secretly desires?<br />
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Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s film is gentle, honest, profoundly human, and quietly poetic.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“One Hundred years Of Solitude”</i> <font size="2">(1967)</font>, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SMALL BODY</b></i></font> (Italy) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How far will a mother go to save the soul of her lost child?</i></font><br />
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In 1900, a young woman in a remote shore town has a crisis. The only solution is to chance everything on an odyssey across the outside lands.<br />
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Laura Semani’s film about migration and transmigration is meditative, surprising, and redemptive.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT</b></i></font> (Germany)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The classic anti-war novel.</i></font><br />
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Remarque’s 1929 novel shocked the world, a bestseller that exposed the true horrors of the hideous apocalypse of the first World War beyond the agitprop posters and jingoism tunes. Veterans felt vindicated, pacifists and universities canonized it, and killdogs hated it. The latter fascists promptly led us into World War II.<br />
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This German production spares nothing, staring right into hell unblinking: the used youth, the territorial pissings, the corrupt chessmasters, the mad leaders. <i>“Forward, he cried from the rear/ And the front rank died.”</i> Don’t turn away.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT <font size="2">(US, 1930)</font>, Renoir’s LE GRANDE ILLUSION <font size="2">(France, 1937)</font>, Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY <font size="2">(US, 1957)</font>, Weir’s GALLIPOLI <font size="2">(Australia, 1981)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE WOMAN KING;<br />
TILL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE WOMAN KING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A fantasy retelling of the real African amazons.</i></font><br />
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For 200 years, into the 19th Century, armies of all-female warriors held sway in West Africa (and inspired all modern cultural amazons, from Wonder Woman to the Dora Milaje).<br />
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Offsetting colonialist narratives and complementing Kurosawa epics, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Dana Stevens’ fictional story creates a counter-myth for new campfire tales. An excellent cast and intense action are metronomed by a warm heart. And who doesn’t want to see Viola Davis kick all the ass?<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SEVEN SAMURAI <font size="2">(Japan, 1954)</font>, BLACK PANTHER: Wakanda Forever <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TILL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of how Emmett Till’s mother exposed the South’s murderous bigotry to the world.</i></font><br />
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Emmitt’s death in 1955 was the shocking turning point for the Civil Rights Movement. His distraught mother wouldn’t allow the truth to be covered up anymore, and tirelessly fought for justice using the media despite itself. Chinonye Chukwu’s film is arresting and Danielle Deadwyler’s performance is heartbreaking. You’ll cry, and that’s invaluable.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
‘Eyes On The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965’ <font size="2">(1987)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>SHE SAID;<br />
TAR</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CALL JANE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1968 Chicago, a female underground performs illegal abortions to save women’s lives.</i></font><br />
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Oppression 101: controlling reproduction means controlling women. ‘Keep them pregnant, keep them at home’. Slaver logic.<br />
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Though Birth Control was legalized in the US in 1960, abortion wasn’t until 1973. In that tumultuous gulf, female activists created a network of secret hostels to aid pregnant women who needed the medical help that the Patriarchy fiercely denied them. This fictional story directed by Phyllis Nagy is based on the real-life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective"target=_blank>Jane Collective</a>, framed cleverly through a conservative woman who comes to the movement by incremental degrees. The ever-great Sigourney Weaver as 'Jane' shines as the passionate heart of a wry story more timely and necessary than ever.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
The supremely corrupt Supreme Court.<br />
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THE GLORIAS <font size="2">(2020)</font>, <i>‘Mrs. America’</i> <font size="2">(2020)</font>, HAPPENING <font size="2">(France, 2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHE SAID</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of how two New York Times reporters revealed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes.</i></font><br />
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Rich men think they can get away with any abuse.<br />
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But there are still vestiges of the Fourth Estate<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate"target=_blank>></a> left in this corporate century, and Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor proved it. Directed by Maria Schrader, written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, this taut journalism thriller exposing Harvey Weinstein and entrenched sexism in the film industry galvanizes the head and stirs the soul.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the Women’s March of 2017; the #MeToo movement<br />
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ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font>, THE POST <font size="2">(2017)</font>; HALF THE PICTURE <font size="2">(Doc, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TAR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The famous symphony conductor is coming apart behind the scenes.</i></font><br />
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The chameleonic Cate Blanchett proves she’s the best yet again in Todd Field’s opus, an intricate psychological drama of formidable intelligence that builds like a stealth thriller. A thoughtful audit of its charismatic yet troubled lead that deeply interrogates character, status, outlooks, ambition, desire, motives, and ethics. No matter how you respond to those inquiries and where they lead, the film haunts you with its insights.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALL ABOUT EVE <font size="2">(1950)</font>, JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles <font size="2">(Belgium/France, 1975)</font>, BLACK SWAN <font size="2">(2010)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE FABELMANS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A ‘50s boy realizes he wants to be a filmmaker, while his family life begins to unravel.</i></font><br />
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Steven Spielberg reveals his secret origin story; how the magic of learning filmmaking gave him a sense of control as his parents started to fracture. Told softly, with caring empathy, it is as astute and frank as it is kind and funny.<br />
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Along the way, you pick up on the inspirations that led to hallmarks, themes, and techniques in his storied film canon.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
CINEMA PARADISO <font size="2">(Italy, 1988)</font>, SUPER 8 <font size="2">(2011)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ELVIS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Everybody, lets Rock!</i></font><br />
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No one does beautiful excess better than Baz Luhrmann, a theatrical stylist with no apologies or boundaries. His operatic collage of Elvis' exhilerating/incendiary life converts all sceptics into believers, a pulpit pound that expounds four on the floor, an inclusive metatext that desegregates, intersects, and illuminates. It is a mashup love letter to Rock 'n' Roll as spiritual liberation, a manifesto for communal creativity fueled by soulful connection, and a cautionary tale about the predators who destroy those. Austin Butler is truly mesmerizing as the king besieged without and within.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Watch in a double-feture with PRISCILLA <font size="2">(2023)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE LOST DAUGHTER;<br />
MURINA;<br />
AFTERSUN</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE LOST DAUGHTER</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>On holiday, the professor is haunted by the past while menaced by the present.</i></font><br />
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As she observes the happenings at a Greek resort while reminiscing, things become less like they seem, turning inward at odd angles. What’s really going on here? Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut captures all of the nuanced ambiguity of Elena Ferrante’s book, brought out through Olivia Colman’s complex performance.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PURPLE NOON <font size="2">(France, 1960)</font>, <i>‘My Brilliant Friend’</i> <font size="2">(2018-)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MURINA</b></i></font> (Croatia) <i>2021</i><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A teen sea diver might do anything to escape her island and her family.</i></font><br />
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Sick of her obnoxious father and the lonely outpost, she longs for the freedom of the monied tourists. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s first effort is a fresh and nuanced character story that escalates with tense suspense.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS <font size="2">(Puerto Rico, 2016)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>AFTERSUN</b></i></font> (UK/US)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Scottish 11-year-old and her dad go on vacation at a Turkish resort.</i></font><br />
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Much more than meets the eye. Charlotte Wells’ feature debut flows like a sunny home movie with breezy interplay between the duo. But underneath, a whole shadow world of implications, foreshadowings, and memories prism your perception of what’s happening.<br />
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Paul Mescal <small>(THE LOST DAUGHTER)</small> is typically good, but newcomer Frankie Corio gives a natural performance so unaffected that it all seems real.<br />
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<center><small>THE QUIET GIRL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE QUIET GIRL</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The miserable country girl opens up during a summer stay with relatives.</i></font><br />
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One of the best films of the year.<br />
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Lost in a loveless family and careless school, young Cait (the terrific Catherine Clinch) is adrift on everyone's neglect. With her aunt and uncle, she discovers what life and love can actually mean. This beautifully sensitive film, spoken in Irish, is as lovely as it is moving.<br />
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<center><small>PETITE MAMAN;<br />
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER;<br />
THE NOVICE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PETITE MAMAN</b></i></font> (France) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The other little girl in the forest her same age seems strangely familiar.</i></font><br />
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Written and directed by Céline Sciamma, this idyllic stroll through generational bonds is quiet and profound. After a loss, an 8-year-old girl explores the woods and discovers new perspectives on those she loves.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A writer on holiday with her mother finds the hotel estate unsettling.</i></font><br />
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The story here is actually more of a mood, an atmospheric setting, a series of suggestions. Like a lantern in a maze, Tilda Swinton holds us spellbound weaving her dexterous skill and intuitive subtlety.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE INNOCENTS <font size="2">(1961)</font>, THE HAUNTING <font size="2">(1963)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE NOVICE</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The driven rowing student may be destroying herself.</i></font><br />
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Sports films are always about the bonding and the win. Lauren Hadaway’s debut subverts this by telling something else unexpected and honest. How far is too far in pursuing a goal, in dealing with others, in qualifying achievement? Isabelle Fuhrman gives an intense performance.<br />
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<center><small>LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER;<br />
PLEASURE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What is a life that has everything, except passion or love?</i></font><br />
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D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 book was banned for four decades worldwide, simply for being a romance that was honest about sex and using some of the words associated with it.<a href="https://time.com/6238284/lady-chatterleys-lover-history-censorship/" target="_blank">></a> Beyond prudery, the ban intended to quell the idea of a woman stepping outside her station or having sexual agency.<br />
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Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre <small>(THE MUSTANG)</small> adapts this with a velvet grudge, directly embracing the story’s frank pleasure, free love, environmentalism, anti-classism, and pro-worker politics. (Hmmm, now what else did those censors have a problem with?)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship"target=_blank>></a> Shot lovely, paced briskly, acted without shame.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WOMEN IN LOVE <font size="2">(England, 1969)</font>, THE LOVER <font size="2">(France/Vietnam, 1992)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PLEASURE</b></i></font> (Sweden/France/Netherlands) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Swedish woman’s dreams of porn industry stardom run headlong into the realities.</i></font><br />
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This is not a sexploitation picture, or a porn video. It’s a character study without censorship.<br />
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Director Ninja Thyberg and a film crew of mainly women follow the fictional aspiring star’s quest in quasi-documentary style. Perversely (ba-dump-bump), the actual porn industry participates on camera, with warts-and-all candor; real directors, agents, and stars demonstrate the pros and cons of the shoots and themselves with an abandon that’s almost oblivious. It’s an eye-opener, and stays in the mind well after.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HARDCORE <font size="2">(1979)</font>, KAMIKAZE HEARTS <font size="2">(1986)</font>, doc’ series ’Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization’ <font size="2">(England, 2006)</font>, ‘The Deuce’ <font size="2">(2017-’19)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE NORTHMAN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The outcast prince vows revenge.</i></font><br />
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The Scandinavian legend of Amleth inspired Shakespeare’s <i>“Hamlet”</i>. Robert Eggers <small>(THE WITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE)</small> goes full epic here with his take on it. BATMAN BEGINS with barbarians? JOHN WICK with swords? THE WITCH II with Anya Taylor-Joy? It’s an engaging eyeful, at least.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HAMLET <font size="2">(England, 1948)</font>, THE GREEN KNIGHT <font size="2">(England, 2021)</font>, HAMLET <font size="2">(US, 2021)</font>, DUNE Part One <font size="2">(France, 2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OFFICIAL COMPETITION</b></i></font> (Spain)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A radical director deliberately casts two lead actors who despise each other.</i></font><br />
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Flat-out hilarious. A bold/crazed director (the impish Penelope Cruz) rubs a method actor (Oscar Martinez) against a hunk star (Antonio Banderas) for firewood and ignites chaos. Curveballs, poignancy, and mayhem zag around every turn. The best by bounds.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TRIANGLE OF SADNESS</b></i></font> (Sweden/Germany/France/UK)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The rich go on a cruise that isn’t smooth sailing.</i></font><br />
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A bitter antidote that goes down like honey. Ruben Östlund’s social satire rolls deceptively easy, breezily setting up the dominoes of bedlam. A brutal takedown of the greedy, the callous, and the selfish that will keep you amused or cheering the whole way.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE SQUARE <font size="2">(Sweden, 2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MATILDA The Musical</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The misfit genius at the horrible school has a will of her own.</i></font><br />
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Roald Dahl’s acclaimed 1988 young adult book was adapted as the long-running stage musical <small>(2010)</small>. The stage creators -director, writer, songwriter- return here translating it to the screen.<br />
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Imagine if Pink Floyd’s <i>“The Wall”</i> had been written by Syd Barrett instead, and staged by Tim Burton. This family-friendly romp loses no iota of Dahl’s outrageous wickedness, a stylish day-glo singalong with a brazenly Punk spirit. Its passionate defense of books and learning, of care and love, of kids and friends, and fierce blowback against those who would oppress these, is as jolting as it is great fun.<br />
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Unrecognizable in make-up, Emma Thompson roars as the villain with the same glorious abandon as her <small>NANNY McPHEE</small> films. The versatile Lashana Lynch <small>(NO TIME TO DIE, THE WOMAN KING, CAPTAIN MARVEL)</small> gifts us her voice. But the gale force here is newcomer Alisha Weir as Matilda, whose charm, singing, and pure ferocity ripple like the jet stream.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY <font size="2">(1971)</font>, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH <font size="2">(1996)</font>, FANTASTIC MR. FOX <font size="2">(2009)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>FIRE ISLAND</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A gay rom-com on the famous vacation isle.</i></font><br />
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Writer and star Joel Kim Booster balances smart subtext with slapstick fun, lobbing zingers and insight about young friends navigating lust and love. Brightly cartoonish, deviously subversive, brazenly whacky, quietly sweet. Catch the boat.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE <font size="2">(1940)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two old friends fall out in a lacerating spiral.</i></font><br />
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The quarrel between two buddies in 1923 becomes a metaphor for the infighting that will eat up Ireland’s century.<br />
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Not so much a black comedy as a fun time that tilts bleak. The rollicking comedy aspects, particularly the first hour, are worth the whole trip. The drama bent takes a macabre turn that may test your journey. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are great, but Kerry Condon steals it from them as the sensible sister.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IN BRUJES <font size="2">(2008)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DALILAND</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The art world is a surreal place.</i></font><br />
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A fun romp through Salvador Dali’s ’70s bacchanalias, most effective in the character moments where Ben Kingsley really shines.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Her mundane life suddenly opens up to a multiplicity of possible lives.</i></font><br />
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The best ComedyDramaIndieFamilySciFiWushuFantasy+ of the year.<br />
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Why accept limits? This film shatters all false boundaries between characters, outlooks, sexuality, nationality, age, and genre. Like Evelyn (the ubiquitous Michelle Yeoh), you can be anything and enjoy everything. Many do, which is why this movie became an instant classic.<br />
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Trad critics will continue hewing to the mundane, touting safe films set in the bleak past or angsty suburbia or the office grind, often relevant solely for their suffocating classism, or their resigned banality, or for (the current go-to buzz phrase) “processing grief”. Beyond these unmindful restraints, the varied is still valid. In the real world, fluid minds embrace the full range of life and imagination and possibility.<br />
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Because life is every thing and not just one.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
KUNG FU HUSTLE <font size="2">(China, 2004)</font>, ANOTHER EARTH <font size="2">(2011)</font>, DOCTOR STRANGE And The Multiverse Of Madness <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>NEPTUNE FROST</b></i></font> (Rwanda)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>His and her paths lead to a hacker underground disrupting the internet.</i></font><br />
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The best CyberpunkAfrofuturistPostgenderArthouseMusicalRomance of the year.<br />
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Rapper Saul Williams and playwright Anisia Uzeyman accord us this bounty, where conscripted miners rise up and become a hacker collective trying to liberate the world. Williams’ music, Uzeyman’s moody cinematography, and a vital cast create a low-budget, high-concept manifesto.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPACE IS THE PLACE <font size="2">(1974)</font>, THE MATRIX <font size="2">(1999)</font>, PUMZI <font size="2">(Kenya short, 2009)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>VESPER;<br />
STRAWBERRY MANSION</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>VESPER</b></i></font> (Lithuania/ France/ Belgium)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In a classist dystopic future with food scarcity, she might have a chance at saving everyone.</i></font><br />
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Cast out from the stingy bubble cities, the poor forage the wild for survival, as teen Vesper tries to save her ailing father. Surreal, understated, dreamy, and beautifully shot (Feliksas Abrukauskas).<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IO <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STRAWBERRY MANSION</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The tax-collector of dreams finds a special house he can’t quantify.</i></font><br />
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Like a jam session between Lewis Carroll and Philip K. Dick. Dreams on VHS, time slips, absurdist satire, fedoras. What, you want more?<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A literary scholar finds that fables may be true when she discovers a djinn in a bottle.</i></font><br />
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George Miller's first film since MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is a fine effort the crowd missed out on. A modern fable laced with ancient fables, lushly crafted with a global cast, and lit through by the chemistry between Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SOMETHING IN THE DIRT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two neighbors try to make a documentary about the strange force in an apartment.</i></font><br />
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A psuedo-doc’, made by its stars, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, where a pair of mismatched idlers try to exploit the inversion of physics taking over the living room. Deceptively smart and archly funny.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT <font size="2">(1999)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BIGBUG</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Suburban neighbors are locked in together by a rogue robot takeover.</i></font><br />
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The increasingly rare Jean-Pierre Jeunet <small>(CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, AMELIE)</small> returns and that should be enough for you. But this <i>‘Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal’</i>-style SciFi comedy, with its fabulous ’50s Futurism and adroit slapstick, is the bonus.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Tati’s MON ONCLE <font size="2">(France, 1958)</font>, Gilliam’s THE ZERO THEOREM <font size="2">(2013)</font>, ‘Humans’ <font size="2">(England, 2015)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DON’T WORRY DARLING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An idyllic Space Age tract house community in the desert may be built on a terrible secret.</i></font><br />
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Olivia Wilde’s acerbic parable about domesticity, patriarchy, and capitalism keeps you guessing. Florence Pugh earned acclaim for her performance this year in THE WONDER, but in truth she is much more faceted here.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>’Manhattan’</i> <font size="2">(2014-’16)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE INNOCENTS</b></i></font> (Norway) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>During summer break, stray kids in the apartment complex start discovering strange abilities.</i></font><br />
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This film’s easy lightness constantly disarms you before things go alarming. (Look away during the cat sequence.) The genuine performances by the young children beguile you while the edge creeps in.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED <font size="2">(England, 1960)</font>, LORD OF THE FLIES <font size="2">(England, 1963)</font>, CARRIE <font size="2">(1976)</font></small><br /><br>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PREY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Comanche woman in 1719 takes on an alien invader.</i></font><br />
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This prequel is the only PREDATOR sequel that matters. It gains all that cred from the inspired focus on Native Americans in an earlier time. Amber Midthunder <small>(<i>‘Legion’</i>)</small> is so effective as the Comanche warrior that the film almost doesn’t need the alien aspect at all. (Unless it’s as a metaphor for colonialism).<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PREDATOR <font size="2">(1987)</font>, A QUIET PLACE <font size="2">(2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SLASH/BACK</b></i></font> (Canada)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Teen Inuit girls lead a stand against alien invaders in a remote icy outback.</i></font><br />
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Nyla Innuksuk’s feature debut is a winner, filmed in the farflung fjord of Pangnirtung with a cast of local amateurs who knock it out of the park. The location, cast, and situations are so rich and funny that there should be an ongoing TV series in the mode of <i>‘Reservation Dogs’</i> beyond this adventure.<br />
<small>[Stares at the camera.]</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE THING <font size="2">(1982)</font>, <i>‘Fortitude’</i> <font size="2">(2015-’18)</font>, <i>‘Reservation Dogs’</i> <font size="2">(2021-)</font></small><br />
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<center>Mysteries, Thrillers, and Investigations</center><br />
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<center><small>DECISION TO LEAVE;<br />
KIMI</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DECISION TO LEAVE</b></i></font> (S. Korea)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A homicide detective discovers that two unconnected cases have one mysterious woman in common.</i></font><br />
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Director Park Chan-wook <small>(SNOWPIERCER)</small> returns with an layered abstraction on VERTIGO (Invertigo?). Knowing this going in won’t keep you ahead of this stealthy interpolation of that beloved refrain. Tang Wei <small>(LUST, CAUTION)</small> is mesmerizing as the suspect, and Kim Ji-yong’s cinematography is startlingly inventive.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
VERTIGO <font size="2">(1958)</font>, STAKEOUT <font size="2">(Japan, 1958)</font>, Park’s THE HANDMAIDEN <font size="2">(S. Korea, 2016)</font>, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT <font size="2">(China, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GOD’S CROOKED LINES</b></i></font> (Spain)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The woman in the mental institute claims to be uncovering a crime.</i></font><br />
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In post-Fascist 1979 Spain, a woman checks into an asylum. With direct purpose, she pursues her secret investigation of a recent death here. In another timeline, a mysterious murder happens. But what is really going on here, and where will it lead?<br />
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Bárbara Lennie captivates in this taut thriller, based on Luca de Tena’s acclaimed book.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
GASLIGHT <font size="2">(1944)</font>, MEMENTO <font size="2">(2000)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>KIMI</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A remote tech discovers recorded evidence of a murder.</i></font><br />
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Soderbergh’s abstraction of REAR WINDOW for the cyber age, cannily turning the gaze from other windows to the monitor screen that watches us. Zoe Kravitz (also heralded this year in <small>THE BATMAN</small>) is a shut-in suddenly caught up in a conspiracy that pushes her limits.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
REAR WINDOW <font size="2">(1954)</font>, BODY DOUBLE <font size="2">(1984)</font>, Soderbergh’s SIDE EFFECTS <font size="2">(2013)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>On the rich man’s island retreat, all of the guests become suspect.</i></font><br />
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Rian Johnson’s clever KNIVES OUT <small>(2019)</small> was just a warm-up for this ambitious, better sequel.<br />
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For starters, Daniel Craig’s detective is far more shaded and physical in this one, a comic riposte to his Bond. He’s clearly having a ball.<br />
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Wider, the intricate mystery is also one of the funniest comedies of the year. It’s a gleeful meta-text that roasts all forms of modern selfishness: odious tech messiahs, influencer vampires, alpha dawgs, corrupt politicos, classist stupidity, bougie excess, consumer addicts, foolish blowhards, and callous bigots. The primo cast is in on the joke and all excel, especially Janelle Monae. The result is a film so rich you have to see it multiple times to savor it all.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE <font size="2">(2018)</font>, KNIVES OUT <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/03/no-time-to-die-how-james-bond-advanced.html"target=_blank>NO TIME TO DIE: How James Bond Advanced Beyond</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE PALE BLUE EYE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>There are terrible murders happening at West Point in 1830.</i></font><br />
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A haunted investigator (Christian Bale) probes a series of killings with aid from an eccentric cadet named Poe. Moody, twisting, stark, tense, the tale unfolds like a fever dream.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FROM HELL <font size="2">(2001)</font>, INSOMNIA <font size="2">(2002)</font>, <i>‘The Fall of The House Of Usher’</i> <font size="2">(2023)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE WONDER</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1860s Ireland, a nurse is sent to discover why the country girl who never eats survives.</i></font><br />
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A spare tale in an austere landscape. The English nurse (Florence Pugh) navigates local distrust, loneliness, and terrible secrets in her pursuit. Her passion lights up this strange purgatory.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ENOLA HOMES 2</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Sherlock’s teen sister gets a foot in the game.</i></font><br />
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Based on Springer’s book series, Millie Bobby Brown <small>(<i>'Stranger Things'</i>)</small> hits her stride with this funny, nimble sequel. Any Holmes story tends to be good, and any feminist twist on him is all for the better.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Sherlock’</i> <font size="2">(Series 4, 2017)</font>, <i>’Miss Sherlock’</i> <font size="2">(Japan, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE OUTFIT;<br />
EMILY THE CRIMINAL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE OUTFIT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A quiet suit-maker runs afoul of the mob in 1955 Chicago.</i></font><br />
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The Cutter from Saville Row just wants to go about his business. Sharp as shears, this shrewd mystery thriller is a must-see with an impeccable cast, particularly Mark Rylance in the lead and Johnny Flynn as the seething hood.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE DROP <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EMILY THE CRIMINAL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A student overwhelmed by debt tries to save herself through crime.</i></font><br />
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Indentured servitude ends, but slavery doesn’t. Capitalism is the ultimate slaver system, and debt is our path to death.<br />
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This fleet film deftly calls out a corrupt nation that cripples students through education debt. Aubrey Plaza is at her best here, an anyone pushed into reflecting the corruption she is the victim of.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> <font size="2">(2008-’13)</font>, NIGHTCRAWLER <font size="2">(2014)</font>, WIDOWS <font size="2">(2018)</font><br />
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Higher education should be free, end all student debt.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>CATCH THE FAIR ONE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The boxer goes undercover to find her abducted sister.</i></font><br />
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Real life boxer Kali Reis co-wrote and stars in this thriller, uncovering the trafficking of Native American women into limbo. Spare as a short story, sober as a documentary, it defuses revenge flick cliches with its clear-eyed realism.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
OLOTURE <font size="2">(Nigeria, 2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>AMSTERDAM</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A (relatively) true story of 1930s international espionage.</i></font><br />
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This mystery comedy is a clever jigsaw puzzle with a stellar cast, always canny and enjoyable with welcome social bite (if a bit long).<br />
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<br />Also:<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SEE HOW THEY RUN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Someone in the theatre’s murder mystery cast may be… a murderer!</i></font><br />
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This mild spoof is good for chuckles, especially with stand-out performances from an ardent Saoirse Ronan and campy David Oyelowo.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A SHOT IN THE DARK <font size="2">(1964)</font>, MURDER BY DEATH <font size="2">(1976)</font>, CLUE <font size="2">(1985)</font></small><br />
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<center>Films from Word/Art sources</center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BATMAN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Dark Knight Detective must outwit The Riddler to save the city.</i></font><br />
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In the early-’70s, writer Denny O’Neil and realist illustrator Neal Adams redefined Batman as the modern, edgy Dark Knight: a stiletto-eared night demon melting from the shadows to terrify the cruel, the greedy, and the lethal. The Shadow, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes in one black gargoyle.<br />
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Matt Reeves is the canny synthesist that Zack Snyder will never be. If Christopher Nolan’s exemplary DARK KNIGHT trilogy captured all of O’Neil/Adams’ work except the film noir and mysticism, director Reeves floors the pedal with those aspects, wedding ‘70s New Hollywood noir to ’90s Grunge. The resulting incubus is spellbinding.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
KLUTE <font size="2">(1971)</font>, THE GODFATHER <font size="2">(1972)</font>, ZODIAC <font size="2">(2007)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">Also hear:</font><br />
<i>“Something In The Way”</i> <font size="2">(1991)</font>, by Nirvana</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>DOCTOR STRANGE In The Multiverse Of Madness</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Will the sorcerer defend or destroy the girl who holds the key to the multiverse?</i></font><br />
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From cosmic sorcery to black magic. Director Sam Raimi <small>(THE EVIL DEAD, SPIDER-MAN 2)</small> tailors a horror movie, corded with a sci-fi dimensional odyssey.<br />
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Just as all ‘comic book movies’ or ’superhero films’ are actually separate genre styles from each other (e.g., demi-god, post-modern, film noir, mythology, Sci-Fi, fantasy, comedy, anime, spy, indie confessional, western, etc.), so this sequel is different from the first. For all of Raimi’s patented visual flair, attention should be focused on a strong story that really pushes the edge, with surprises and shocks at every turn, and a mosaic performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE EVIL DEAD II <font size="2">(1987)</font>, <i>‘What If’</i> <font size="2">(Season 1, 2022)</font>, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BLACK PANTHER: Wakanda Forever</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Panther is dead, long live the new Panther.</i></font><br />
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Here’s a film “processing grief” that is genuine and brilliant.<br />
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Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death forced this sequel to face that harsh reality. The result is a layered and moving rumination on loss -in family, ethics, and belief in self- as good as any out there. Couple this with a staggering cultural collision -Afrofuturism vs. Mayan futurism, a social comment on how cultures work against each other instead of uniting against a common oppressor writ on an operatic scale. And then there is Letitia Wright <small>(<i>'Small Ax'</i>)</small>, a superb actor stepping to the fore and taking the mantle. Undeniable.<br />
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<blockquote><font color="ffffff">★</font> <font color="9999ff">Here’s the thing, critics. WAKANDA is a smart film with a poignant story and impeccable craft, while RRR (India) is an empty style-void that’s only notable for its silly excess. If you snub the first while overpraising the second, then you don’t know your bias from a hole in the ground.</font></blockquote><br />
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<center>Animation and Moving Art </center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE SEA BEAST</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The seafaring monster-hunters take on the wrong quarry.</i></font><br />
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Along with TREASURE ISLAND <small>(1951)</small>, this immediately became my favorite pirate movie ever.<br />
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Point blank, it is richer in inspiration and soul in any 10 minutes than many of the dry dramas on most <i>’Year's Best’</i> lists put together. Trads may howl foul, but the facts are intact. After all, why should mundanity be the metric? A cornucopia always beats famine.<br />
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Here lies a bounty of riches. The craft is astonishing: a rich character story with crisp turns; a refreshingly global crew; exquisite art direction and design; and an infectiously adorable lead in little Maisie Brumble. C’mon, that name alone. This film is greatness from stem to stern.<br />
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Netflix Animation just gave Pixar and Disney a serious run for their cred. Hoist the flag.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Moby Dick”</i> <font size="2">(1851)</font>, <i>“Treasure Island”</i> <font size="2">(1883)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TREASURE ISLAND <font size="2">(1951)</font>, MOANA <font size="2">(2016)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html"target=_blank>THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TURNING RED</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Mei hits adolescence and turns into a big red monster beyond control.</i></font><br />
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The truly excellent Pixar movie of the year.<br />
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Wound tight in a traditional Chinese-American household, young Mei’s life unravels when her monthly visit starts, unleashing a big red fuzzy beast self. Domee Shi’s quickwit film is a pure blast, as sensitive as it is uproarious.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE NAMESAKE <font size="2">(2007)</font>, ENCANTO <font size="2">(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LIGHTYEAR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The origin adventure of Buzz Lightyear.</i></font><br />
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To be clear, this isn’t a spin-off of the toy from TOY STORY, but instead the pretend ‘90s SciFi film’ from which the toy was derived. Despite lackluster response from folks, this is actually a very good movie, with many great moments. Time will bring them around.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the TOY STORY films, <i>‘Star Trek: Prodigy’</i> <font size="2">(2021-)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>APOLLO 10 1/2;<br />
BELLE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>APOLLO 10 <small>1/2</small>:<br />
A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Texas boy is chosen by NASA in 1969 to go to the moon secretly before Apollo 11.</i></font><br />
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Richard Linklater reveals his origin story, growing up in a Texas suburb directly connected to the Space Race. The moon launch framework is fun, but the real charm of the film is the candid and witty parade of anecdotes about his home life and the era.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A SCANNER DARKLY <font size="2">(2006)</font>, BOYHOOD <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html"target=_blank>2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>BELLE</b></i></font> (Japan)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A charming cyberpunk reboot of “Beauty And The Beast’”.</i></font><br />
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This lovely and well-crafted anime contrasts a normal boring life with a fantastical virtual life, forcing a young girl to question each. A positive empowerment tale, some sideways romance, nice songs, and mindtrip visuals.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Cocteau’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST <font size="2">(France, 1946)</font>, WHISPER OF THE HEART <font size="2">(Japan, 1995)</font>, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME <font size="2">(Japan, 2006)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>INU-OH</b></i></font> (Japan)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Centuries ago in feudal Japan, two outcasts challenge the system with music.</i></font><br />
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The latest Science SARU production, helmed by the iconoclastic Masaaki Yuasa, is everything great at once: an impressionistic legend told in varying art styles, from ink to wash to paint; an excellent Rock Opera (!) with great songs and theatric sequences; and a layered allegory protesting all oppressors who ostracize the different, from creativity to appearance to outlook. Hold up your fist and say, "We are here."<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PINOCCHIO</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The puppet who wanted to be a boy.</i></font><br />
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Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong dream project, realized in stop-animation. This finely crafted version has gritty candor, a sterling voice cast, top-notch songs, and -set in the tyranny of Fascist Italy- some seriously relevant political punch against all forms of oppression.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PINOCCHIO <font size="2">(1940)</font>, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH <font size="2">(1996)</font>, THE BOXTROLLS <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>IF THESE WALLS COULD SING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Mary McCartney's doc about the legendary Abbey Road Studios, with Paul, Ringo, and many more.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MOONAGE DAYDREAM</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK AND BLUES</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The life story of the Jazz ambassador.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How photographer Nan Goldin exposed the rich family behind the opoid crisis.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RIOTSVILLE, USA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In the '60s, the US Government trained soldiers in fake town sets to crush social dissent.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>FRAMING AGNES</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A transgender history, with analysis and reenactments.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE LAST MOVIE STARS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE COME UP</b></i></font> (TV series)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>6 young creators try to make it in NYC.</i></font><br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE DAILY SHOW, with Trevor Noah</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BETTER CALL SAUL</b></i></font> 6<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale.</i></font><br />
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If <i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> is THE GODFATHER, then <i>‘Better Call Saul’</i> is THE GODFATHER II; while the first is a linear crime drama, the second is a prequel/sequel simultaneously, telling a wider and deeper story in between those time contrasts about consequences and redemptions.<br />
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Where will reflection lead you? Note how Saul’s memories are often in dark rooms lit by available light from outside, a reverse chiaroscuro, a naturalist noir. Is he trying to illume insight from his past or find escape from the present through his recollections? The finale season is an unsparing mirror on that choice, sharply focused and bluntly realistic.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> <font size="2">(2008-’13)</font>, EL CAMINO <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GENTLEMAN JACK</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Anne Lister enacts grand plans to take over 1830s Halifax, Yorkshire.</i></font><br />
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The real-life Lister was a businesswoman who hid her secret sexual life in encrypted journals. Recently deciphered, they are interpreted in Sally Wainwright’s <small>('<i>Happy Valley'</i>)</small> shrewd dramedy series, holding a mirror to our current progress and lapses. Suranne Jones is completely mesmeric as the lead.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Tipping The Velvet’</i> <font size="2">(2002)</font>, CAROL <font size="2">(2005)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE HANDMAID’S TALE</b></i></font> 5<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can June escape the damage left inside her?</i></font><br />
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Must pain lead only to violence? To its estimable credit, the penultimate season of the series processes all of this unflinchingly, hearing the heart but heeding the head. June (Elisabeth Moss) grows deeper while the scope expands wider, setting the stage for the finale season.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“The Handmaid’s Tale”</i> <font size="2">(1985)</font> and <i>“The Testaments”</i> <font size="2">(2019)</font>, by Margueriete Atwood</small><br />
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<font color="008ae6"><i>Are the crimes happening on a 1971 Navajo reservation connected?</i></font><br />
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Tony Hillerman wrote 18 popular mystery novels about Rez cops; three each about Leaphorn and then Chee, before the duo teamed up from the seventh onward.<br />
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This adaptation series combines them from the beginning, clashing and then bonding. It’s a solid show, if a tad basic at times. It’s truest value is in simply being there, showcasing the community, their traditions, their conflicts, their dislocation and struggle in a colonized wilderness. There should be a hundred shows in all genres about Native Americans, to make up for lost time and neglect, and this helps. The omnipresent Zahn McClarnon is reliably good, while Jessica Matten breaks out as the intuitive sergeant.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Frontline: The Spirit Of Crazy Horse’</i> <font size="2">(PBS, 1990)</font>, THUNDERHEART <font size="2">(1992)</font>, SIOUX CITY <font size="2">(1994)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHERWOOD</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An English town divided by bitter history is fissured anew by two murders.</i></font><br />
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Set in Knottinghamshire, this modern procedural uses two killings (inspired by actual events) to examine an unjust past. The town still seethes over a fallout between Unions during the Miners Strike of 1984. While telling a gripping investigation, the series sheds light on the fascistic methods Thatcher had used to divide and conquer the working class. (The lawyer’s ‘Deep Throat’ informer scene in episode 4 nails it.) Playwright James Graham’s sharp series has an excellent cast, great heart, and fleet turns.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
CASTLE IN THE SKY <font size="2">(Japan, 1986)</font>, THE BIG MAN <font size="2">(England, 1990)</font>, BILLY ELLIOTT <font size="2">(England, 2000)</font>, <i>’Happy Valley’</i> <font size="2">(2014-’23)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SLOW HORSES</b></i></font> 1 + 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>MI5’s house for outcast spies gets down and dirty.</i></font><br />
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Imagine if Harry Palmer from THE IPCRESS FILE <small>(1967)</small> became seedy and jaded after a long career. That’s the underlying premise here, adapted from Mick Herron’s espionage book series. Gary Oldman clearly relishes playing the caustic bastard Jackson Lamb, flipping quips like shurikens. Add to this zigzag cases, a misfit ensemble, and tight cinematography for the total win.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE IPCRESS FILE <font size="2">(1967)</font>, <i>‘The Iprcess File’</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>RIDLEY ROAD; THE IPCRESS FILE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RIDLEY ROAD</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>With Fascism on the rise in 1963 London, a young Jewish woman infiltrates the enemy.</i></font><br />
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A 4-episode fiction series set in the actual events of the time, when the hideous Colin Jordan began his neo-Nazi crusade. Director Lisa Mulcahy and writer Sarah Solemani adapt Jo Bloom’s book into a gripping thriller, helmed by impressive newcomer Agnes O’Casey as the brave lead.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘The Hour’</i> <font size="2">(England, 2011-’12)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE IPCRESS FILE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A reimagining of the classic 1967 spy film.</i></font><br />
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Dovetailing with the new <i>‘Slow Horses’</i> series (above) comes a mini-series rethinking Len Deighton’s spy book. The show is keenly aware of the classic 1967 film version, winking at its low-angled shots and <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/05/john-barry-mr-kiss-kiss-bang-bang-and.html"target=_blank>Barry</a>’s haunting score, while expanding past it with nervy verve. Our favorite spy anti-hero ups the ante tackling a global conspiracy, capering into a finale with more twists than Chubby Checker.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE IPCRESS FILE <font size="2">(1967)</font>, JFK <font size="2">(1991)</font>, <i>'Slow Horses’</i> <font size="2">(2022-)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE OFFER;<br />
GASLIT</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE OFFER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The impossible and astonishing making of THE GODFATHER.</i></font><br />
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Mario Puzo’s unstoppable bestseller was never going to get made as a movie.<br />
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At every step, it was hindered by clueless corporate execs, a coked-out studio head, squabbling creators, erratic actors, budget crunch, puppet politicos, and the actual Mafia. Despite all this incessant lack of vision, producer Al Ruddy helped Coppola triumph with what many consider the finest American movie ever made. Don’t refuse this astounding trip.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE GODFATHER <font size="2">(1972)</font>, THE GODFATHER II <font size="2">(1974)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GASLIT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Margaret Mitchell knew about Watergate before anyone, but who would listen?</i></font><br />
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John Mitchell was the head of Nixon’s reelection committee (or CREEP) and authorized the 1972 Watergate break-in. After press leaks from his wife, he had her kidnapped.<br />
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This series is most valuable as a clear linear breakdown of how the break-in occurred and who was involved. (It’s less effective when it plays the burglars for laughs.) Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are strong leads, while Shea Whigham goes off as the psychotic G. Gordon Liddy.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Watch ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font>, and then MARK FELT <font size="2">(2017)</font>, and then this mini-series.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PISTOL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The story of the Sex Pistols, from guitarist Steve Jones’ perspective.</i></font><br />
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Based on Jones’ memoir, you might expect a skewed brag-and-slag.<br />
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Never mind that. Instead, writer Craig Pearce and director Danny Boyle <small>(TRAINSPOTTING)</small> tell the history of the Sex Pistols in six hours with unflinching honesty and uniform fairness. Jones owns up to his flaws and insecurities, abused homelife, criminal record, and band missteps while crediting everyone around him for their valuable acts, from McClaren to Westwood to Lydon to Jordan to Hynde. Punk is really about destroying all artifice and constraint, and the bracing honesty here is the punkest act possible.<br />
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Aiding this is the perfect craft: shot handheld, film-grain, square ratio like 1976; the diverse entourage and their eclectic music tastes; the actors actually performing the music, learning to play as they went; the uncanny cast likenesses of everyone from Don Letts to Siouxsie; and the political context of why it all matters, more than ever. Every minute of this works.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Temple’s THE FILTH AND THE FURY <font size="2">(doc, 2000)</font>, Letts’ PUNK: Attitude <font size="2">(doc, 2005)</font><br />
<font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“England’s Dreaming”</i> <font size="2">(1991)</font>, by Jon Savage</small><br />
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<center><small>SHINING GIRLS;<br />
WE OWN THIS CITY</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHINING GIRLS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An assault survivor finds the fabric of her life mysteriously changing around her.</i></font><br />
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Imagine watching <i>‘Mindhunter’</i> as it slowly turns into TIME AFTER TIME. In the best David Fincher-meets-Gillian Flynn style, this moody and well-crafted mystery grows more surreal and surprising as it goes.<br />
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A newspaper archivist (Elizabeth Moss) recovering from trauma discovers she has some connection to a recent murder, as her reality seems to be altering without explanation.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TIME AFTER TIME <font size="2">(1979)</font>, ZODIAC <font size="2">(2007)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>WE OWN THIS CITY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of the corrupt Baltimore police.</i></font><br />
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Everyone wants a sequel to <i>‘The Wire’</i>, which many feel is the best TV series ever made.<br />
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Writers George Pelecanos and David Simon come back with the closest thing to it examining the true story of a corrupt cop squad, a lens through which they expose the rampant corruption of the current Baltimore justice system.<br />
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This invaluable series indicts the U.S. Police State for what it is: bigots with war weaponry sanctioned by an unspoken civic mandate to oppress the citizens.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘The Wire’</i> <font size="2">(2002-’08)</font>, <i>'The Shield’</i> <font size="2">(2002-’08)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Picard</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To the alternate Past, and his past altered.</i></font><br />
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<i>‘Picard’</i> is about second chances, and about facing harsh times to forge better ones. This fine season put his current crew to the test, while setting the stage for the return of his original crew.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’</i>, “Past Tense” <font size="2">(S03/E11+12; 1997)</font>, <i>‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’</i>, “Family” <font size="2">(S04/E02; 1990)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Strange New Worlds</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The adventures of the Enterprise before the Original Series.</i></font><br />
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Before Kirk, there was Captain Pike. 55 years in the making, we at last get to revel in the possibilities. The beauty of the show is how well it channels everything right about the Original Series <small>(1966-’69</small>), while amping that in ways we’ve never seen (a la <i>‘Discovery’</i>). Bold.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Trek’</i>, “The Menagerie” <font size="2">(S01/E11+12, 1967)</font>, <i>‘Star Trek: Discovery’</i>, Season 2 <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE ORVILLE: New Horizons</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The parallel ‘Star Trek’ gets bigger and bolder.</i></font><br />
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Hopping from Fox to Hulu with a whopping new budget, the ‘Next Gen Lite’ dramedy made 80-minute mini-movies with hyper-ramped effects each episode. The strongest stories revolved around the new youth, Topa (Imani Pullum).<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OBI-WAN KENOBI</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The hinge from the Prequel Trilogy to the Original Trilogy.</i></font><br />
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<i>"She's just as important as he is."</i> Stepping out of young Luke’s orbit, the Jedi looks after the Other.<br />
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What’s most impressive here is how well this mini-trilogy (6 hours) bridges the genocidal Episode III to the optimistic Episode IV: the brave choice of processing Kenobi’s debilitating PTSD from guilt; the fate of padewans; finally seeing young Leia on Alderaan; and all the subtle ways it ties up loose ends and continuity transitions.<br />
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Ewan MacGregor is shaded here in ways we haven’t seen before, from grief to paternal. The finale saber fight is shocking. And the delightful 10-year-old Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) is the best best.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Wars: Rebels’</i>, “Twilight Of The Apprentice” <font size="2">(S02/E21+22, 2016)</font> and “Twin Suns” <font size="2">(S03/E20, 2017)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>Mercenary and/or Rebel.</small></center>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ANDOR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The ambitious prequel to ROGUE ONE.</i></font><br />
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This is adroit you’re looking for.<br />
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STAR WARS needs to get out of mirroring itself by remembering its inspirations, goals, and possibilities. Here, a pre-prequel to the edgy prequel ROGUE ONE <small>(2016)</small> takes a sober ‘70s SciFi arthouse approach that bypasses nostalgia for mature intensity.<br />
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<i>’Andor’</i> is a hyperjump advance, a tale of personal crisis within an espionage epic, which includes a heist, political conspiracy, class soap, prison break, and slave revolt. Shot like an art film, paced like a novel, felt like a nervous breakthrough. Profoundly humanist, vehemently anti-fascist, fragilely hopeful.<br />
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Catch up to the Revolution.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE <font size="2">(1961)</font>, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS <font size="2">(Italy/Algiers, 1966)</font>, MATEWAN <font size="2">(1987)</font>, AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD <font size="2">(1991)</font></small><br />
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For a longer essay of this essential series, with many photos from cinema history, read:<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/andor-new-revolution.html" target="_blank">ANDOR, The New Revolution</a>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The twisty fate of Boba Fett after RETURN OF THE JEDI.</i></font><br />
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The entire point of STAR WARS is positive redemption. If <i>‘The Mandalorian’</i> is essentially the Ultimate Boba Fett Story every kid with Kenner figures hoped for, then the actual Fett show dares to do what they hadn’t considered. This is as gutsy as it is spiritually consistent. Thoroughly enjoyable, thus. Plus Ahsoka, Luke, and Krrsantan!<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE <font size="2">(Italy, 1965)</font>, A MAN CALLED HORSE <font size="2">(1970)</font>, QUADROPHENIA <font size="2">(1979)</font>, THEEB <font size="2">(Jordan, 2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>DOCTOR WHO</b></i></font> Specials<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>3 Specials winding up the run by Jodie Whittaker.</i></font><br />
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The Whittaker cycle liberated this series.<br />
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All the constraints -male, white, limited regenerations, canon, conservative fans- are now shattered with the expansions and inclusiveness brought in by innovative showrunner Chris Chibnell <small>(<i>‘Broadchurch’</i>)</small>.<br />
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The core of the Doctor is fluid change. No other run in the show’s history did more or better in honoring that. So yokels be damned, bring in all possibility. We want the world and we want it now.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>"Orlando"</i> <font size="2">(1928)</font>, by Virginia Woolf</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RUSSIAN DOLL</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Her history is a much bigger puzzle.</i></font><br />
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The first season was headtrip fun in a local tapeloop. The second goes for glory, an international time epic as ambitious as it is poignant. Natasha Lyonne, shuffling like <i>'Columbo'</i> and grousing like Jackie Mason, is multiform.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
GROUNDHOG DAY <font size="2">(1993)</font>, <i>‘Day Break’</i> <font size="2">(2006)</font>, <i>‘Awake</i> <font size="2">(2012)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WESTWORLD</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Futureworld 2.2.</i></font><br />
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This all began with Michael Crichton’s original film WESTWORLD <small>(1973)</small>, and the sequel FUTUREWORLD <small>(1976)</small>.<br />
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The TV series rethought the first film in its first two seasons, and then the second in its next two. Across Season 3 and 4, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan remade/remodeled it into Gibson and Wachowski cyberpunk, challenging our perceptions of life, sentience, otherness, and destiny. And of the series itself. Thank you.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SEVERANCE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can you really separate your work life from your real life?</i></font><br />
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Perhaps recent years have you suspecting that Capitalism is slavery.<br />
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A devious SpecFic, like <i>‘The Office’</i> overwritten by <i>‘Black Mirror’</i>, where your work self and life self have no memory of each other. That’s a bad thing handled brilliantly here in an edge comedy brimming with dry surrealism, copious social satire, Kubrick-esque cinematography, and moments of unexpected tenderness. The sly cast includes canny turns by John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Homecoming’</i> <font size="2">(2018-’20)</font>, <i>’Made For Love’</i> <font size="2">(2021-’22)</font></small><br />
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<center>_____ F A N T A S Y _____</center><br />
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<font color="#FFFFFF">✭✭✭✭✭</font> The pinnacle.<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A new prequel about the original rise of Sauron.</i></font><br />
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The excellence of the LORD OF THE RINGS television series is on a new level so high that everything else is just a school play. Everything.<br />
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No other show or film can match it for its new standard of quality craft. It is an IMAX masterpiece on a medium far too small for it. It equals Jackson’s films and betters them, in scope and design and inclusion. And it does the most impossible task of all, crafting a rousing new story narrative from Tolkien’s academic addendums that perfectly complements his acclaimed books while liberating new possibilities.<br />
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The trolls lose and the world wins.<br />
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For a longer review of this excellent series, read:<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/lord-of-rings-rings-of-power-one-rules.html" target="_blank">LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power ⬤ The One Rules All</a><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING <font size="2">(2001)</font>, THE TWO TOWERS <font size="2">(2002)</font>, THE RETURN OF THE KING <font size="2">(2003)</font>;<br />
also, TOLKIEN <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>HIS DARK MATERIALS</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale of the trilogy.</i></font><br />
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HBO has adapted Pullman’s Fantasy book trilogy in three seasons. The finale, whether from the third book’s tone or the pandemic delays, is a notably somber stroll. The ‘dead’ world is a cheerless slog compared to the delightful ‘eden’ world, which is naturally the point.<br />
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This season’s strength is in how it maturely defies Fantasy codes; not everything works out perfectly, and there’s loss for every hard-won gain. And it’s an inverse rebuke to Lewis’ faith-based <i>“Narnia”</i> books; underling the series is one of the strongest refutations of fundamentalist religion ever aired, in favor of embracing a full life without repression.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
LABYRINTH <font size="2">(1986)</font>, SPIRITED AWAY <font size="2">(Japan, 2001)</font>, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE <font size="2">(2005)</font>, del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH <font size="2">(2006)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”</i> <font size="2">(1865)</font>, by Lewis Carroll</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STRANGER THINGS</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Where did Eleven come from, and where will that lead her?</i></font><br />
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The first three seasons were just prelude. The Duffer Brothers mature up and go big: 72-minute episodes, character beats for the full cast, huge cinematic vistas, global breadth, and a palpable maturity. By exploring Eleven’s origin, they open it all up for the entire ensemble. Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink shine this year.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALTERED STATES <font size="2">(1981)</font>, SCANNERS <font size="2">(Canada, 1981)</font><br />
<font color="008ae6">Also play:</font><br />
<i>“Dungeons And Dragons”</i> RPG; air guitar</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OUTLANDER</b></i></font> 6<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Will their new colony come apart from within?</i></font><br />
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My favorite screen romance continues its winning streak, turning romance novel conventions inside out with historical savvy and bracing shifts.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An update on Anne Rice’s classic book.</i></font><br />
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The flaw in the 1976 book was that the 18th Century lead starts as a plantation owner. There’s no way to spin that now with all the toxic negatives entailed. This series wisely resituates Louis as a 1910s New Orleans African-American, a richly contextual decision that improves upon the original while amplifying it with new dimensions and extended span.<br />
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The other smart move, in the wake of the recent <i>‘American Gods’</i> fiasco, is their plan to directly adapt the book in two seasons and stop. Jacob Anderson <small>(‘Game Of Thrones’)</small> reveals his range as Louis, and Sam Reid was born to play the legendary Lestat.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Fevre Dream”</i> <font size="2">(1982)</font>, by George R.R. Martin</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>KINDRED</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An update on Octavia Butler’s classic book.</i></font><br />
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Taking its cue from the <i>‘Handmaid’s Tale’</i> TV series, this adaption lateralizes the story outward with new material. This might irk purists, but the core story remains and the additions bring fuller possibilities.<br />
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Butler’s book, taught in colleges, is a damning indictment of slavery, and a wake-up call for inclusive fantasy that helped pave AfroFuturism. It raised many ramifications that this strong series does quite well expanding upon. Mallori Johnson is riveting as the young 2016 woman (instead of 1976) who, by some ancestral connection, keeps being pulled back to a hellish 1815 plantation.<br />
<small>(Also, props to the serious musichead choosing the soundtrack songs.)</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Outlander’</i> <font size="2">(2014-)</font>, <i>‘The Underground Railroad’</i> <font size="2">(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Prodigy</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To boldly go like you've never been there before.</i></font><br />
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This trojan horse, pitched as an entry show into <i>'Trek'</i> for young viewers, is sneaking in a whole lot more: STAR WARS energy, youthful shenanigans, refreshed outlook, an edgy arc with intense villains, a sequel to <i>'Star Trek: Voyager'</i>, and some of the most forward redesigns in TREK history. Anyone skipping the trip has missed the wildest ride.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Lower Decks</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To boldly explode everything that’s gone before.</i></font><br />
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Siblings knock each other because they love each other. This comedy show spoofs everything that ever happened in <i>‘Star Trek’</i> -and things that should- because it’s a family affair. But anyone tuning in will enjoy the fun, fan or not.<br />
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(The key to doing humor on <i>‘Trek’</i> is smart absurdism, a la Douglas Adams, something that the frat yuks on <i>‘The Orville’</i> haven’t grasped.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR WARS: Tales Of The Jedi</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An animated anthology leading into the Prequel Trilogy.</i></font><br />
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Two arcs, one following the path of Ahsoka from her birth to Coruscant, the other revealing the corruption of Count Dooku by Sidious. Special shout-out to the animators for designing the younger Count after Christopher Lee in DRACULA <small>(1958)</small>!<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>UNDONE</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can Alma save her family, in time?</i></font><br />
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Television’s most trippy adult animated show returns, moving from the father’s limbo to the mother’s secret history. It pulls the family together and makes the series even stronger. The genuinely moving character story spans from rural Mexico to Nazi-occupied Poland, and saves the cosmic blowout for last.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A WAKING LIFE <font size="2">(2001)</font>, INCEPTION <font size="2">(2010)</font>, <i>’Russian Doll’</i> Season 2 <font size="2">(2022)</font></small>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MOON KNIGHT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The unstable champion of a dubious Egyptian god.</i></font><br />
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Moon Knight was one of Marvel Comics' ersatz Batmans, but more supernatural and schizoid. Taking cues from wise retcons in the comics, this series magnifies the Egyptian cultural dimensions while being sensitive to his apparent mental illness. Oscar Isaac, renowned for playing edge or jest well, has a field day navigating his characters.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MS. MARVEL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>New Jersey’s finest hero, by way of Pakistan.</i></font><br />
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Cool as SPIDER-VERSE! Woke as BLACK PANTHER! Bright as CAPTAIN MARVEL! It's... Ms. Marvel!<br />
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This is the hippest, happiest, heartfelt show on TV. It does everything at once and exactly right.<br />
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It’s as current as sockets on teen life, tech, and style; it’s a family show more layered than a rug store; it’s as funny as saying monkey in every sentence; it’s as wise as the wherefores; it’s got It and that’s that.<br />
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And it rivals BLACK PANTHER and SHANG CHI for inclusive cultural panorama. Spidey’s over in Queens, but has never had the range and realness of Jersey here, let alone its Pakistani diaspora. And then they go full-gamut dealing with The Partition of India in 1947 (!) like the ghost of David Lean. There’s nothing on the air that can compare.<br />
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Iman Vellani is a force for joy as Kamala Khan, the Ms. with the biz. Plus, the Illumin-Aunties, tube vids, comic convention, wedding gala highstepping, positive Islam, school heist, cartoon schemes, more. Marvelous.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPIDER-MAN: Into The Spider-Verse <font size="2">(2018)</font>, <i>‘Doctor Who’</i>, “Demons Of The Punjab” <font size="2">(S11/E06, 2018)</font>, CAPTAIN MARVEL <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHE-HULK: Attorney At Law</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Jennifer smash fourth wall!</i></font><br />
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In her second comic book series <small>(1989)</small>, Jenn’ spoke directly to the reader -before Deadpool- taunting fanboys, sexism, and comics cliches.<br />
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We’re all tired of Online trolls with their scared harassment of female heroes. Before they could even start, this TV show roasts them like lava. Metatextual with a megaphone, Jenn’s whipsmart wit prosecutes sexist brats, toxic cyber-bullies, yuppie bros, blithering tabloid media, anti-creativity press hacks, and the consumer machine. It even goofs happily on the MCU itself. Tatiana Maslaney <small>(<i>‘Orphan Black’</i>)</small> is puckishly hilarious in a satire leaps ahead of rote network comedies.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WEREWOLF BY NIGHT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What horror awaits the monster-hunters in the labyrinth?</i></font><br />
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Mark Giacchino, acclaimed for his film scores, directs this black and white Special homaging 1930s Universal horror films, all expressionist lighting and tense suspense (instead of today’s gory sadism).<br />
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After Congress conservatives murdered EC Comics in 1954<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america-david-hajdu/10092241?"target=_blank>></a>, horror series were banned in comics for two decades. But the Marvel supernatural heroes of the ‘70s are now reaching the screen, such as Blade and Morbius and the two-for-one here.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME <font size="2">(1932)</font>, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN <font size="2">(1935)</font>, THE WOLF MAN <font size="2">(1941)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE SANDMAN</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece translated to the screen.</i></font><br />
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The Holy Grail of comics, done precisely right and bettered.<br />
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Writer Alan Moore <small>(<i>“Watchmen”</i>, <i>“V For Vendetta”</i>, <i>“From Hell”</i>)</small> was the core of the ‘80s Comics Renaissance, when literate graphics bridged the comic stores to the book stores. His compatriot Neil Gaiman carried the torch into the ’90s, primarily through his 75-issue run of the mature comic <i>“The Sandman”</i> <small>(1989-’96)</small>. Where Moore was the macro, Neil was the micro, writing chameleonic short stories that stealthily built up into epics.<br />
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Straights don’t know this, but every hip reader from the ’90s up does. The character Morpheus, and his sister Death, are legendary in circles from Goth to Grunge, Cosplay to Comic-Con. The collected graphic novels are bestsellers and shelf staples.<br />
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<center><small>"The Sandman: Overture" (2015),<br />
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The intense pressure to adapt it to the screen properly has overwhelmed every attempt. Ironically, it was another show’s cautionary tale that ensured it. The TV adaptation of Gaiman’s <i>“American Gods”</i> novel had a brilliant first season, but the showrunner was foolishly fired over budget, and the series then spun its wheels till it dug its own grave, canceled without finishing. Meanwhile, the adaption of Gaiman’s <i>“Good Omens”</i> went over very well. The lesson was… do the material exactly and let Neil have total control of it.<br />
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Now we have the best done better. Exactly correctly, the new <i>'Sandman'</i> TV series helmed by Gaiman adapts each issue in sequence, covering the first 17 issues in 11 episodes faithfully. The only changes are improvements, such as the wise move of inclusive casting. And what a cast: Tom Sturridge as Dream, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, and Jenna Coleman as the flip on John Constantine. Plus easter eggs with more subtext than entire rival series. It’s perfect.<br />
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While amiable usurpers like <i>‘His Dark Materials’</i>, <i>‘Cabinet Of Curiosities’</i>, and <i>‘Stranger Things’</i> may get all the attention, this is better and always has been. Straights may sleep on it, but the rest of us are wide awake.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
MIRRORMASK <font size="2">(2005)</font>, CORALINE <font size="2">(2009)</font>, <i>‘American Gods’</i>, Season One only <font size="2">(2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PAPER GIRLS</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>4 newspaper delivery teens from 1988 are thrown together in a ricochet through time.</i></font><br />
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The indie series <i>‘Paper Girls’</i> <small>(2015-’19)</small> is one of the best comics of the century.<br />
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Writer Brian K. Vaughan <small>(<i>‘Lost’</i>)</small>, artist Cliff Chiang, and colorist Matt Wilson crafted a complete novel across 30 issues. Its familiar suburban setting, clean graphics, and bold color slid the reader into an unguessable story unfolding on a monumental scale.<br />
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This screen adaption is damned impressive. It directly clones the initial issues with eerie perfection, from the girls’ casting and attitudes, to the contrasty night scenes, to the bold color washes across scenes. In the second half, it expands with new material about their future selves.<br />
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It got only one season before cancellation but it’s worth the trip anyway. Then <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/paper-girls-the-complete-story-brian-k-vaughan/16945554"target=_blank>read the entire, finished story</a>.<br />
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<center><small>"Paper Girls: The Complete Story" (2021)</small></center><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
Vaughan and Staples’ <i>’Saga’</i> <font size="2">(2012-)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The motley group meets their match… their replacements.</i></font><br />
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Starting out as ‘<i>Watchmen</i> meets <i>Doom Patrol</i>’, this show has evolved into something more uniquely itself. A heady cocktail of action, slapstick, doomsday, time trickery, sibling survivor-y, and cascades of surrealism.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Holiday Special</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Christmas, in spaaaaaaaaace!</i></font><br />
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Everyone was disappointed by <i>‘The STAR WARS Holiday Special’</i> <small>(1978)</small>, except for its Boba Fett cartoon. This deliberately makes up for it. Hijinks with Kevin Bacon ensue. And Mantis (Pom Klementieff) again proves she’s the funniest Guardian of all.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RAISING DION</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The second and final season.</i></font><br />
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With greater ambition comes some shagginess. This amiable show about a Mom raising a powered son is a fun all-ages romp, usually best with its plentiful heart moments. They should have got three seasons, but the two are a cool ride.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The (other) sharpest comedian in 1960 has to reset her life.</i></font><br />
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Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein are the best comedy duo on television, again.<br />
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Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino’s <small>(<i>‘The Gilmore Girls’</i>)</small> mantra seems to be, “Why do something good when you can do it double-excellent and elaborately?” It’s as if a Joan Rivers stand-up routine tumbled into a Gene Kelly musical. Take the first episode, “Rumble On The Wonder Wheel”, where -after a complicated one-take tour through an amusement park- the cast has a madcap public spat rotating in different ferris wheel cars.<br />
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And then there’s the burlesque extravaganzas, an FBI shakedown, a Bar Mitzvah inquisition, a stand-up death duel, the matchmaker mafia, and Lenny Bruce at the actual frickin’ Carnegie Hall. This show is the standard.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS <font size="2">(1951)</font>, MY FAVORITE YEAR <font size="2">(1982)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN;<br />
RESERVATION DOGS;<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>With the men away in WWII, women took hold of the baseball fields.</i></font><br />
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The most haunting part of the classic 1992 comedy film was the road not taken; the brief scene when an African-American pitcher has to walk away from a team she can’t join. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League <small>(1943-’54)</small> never integrated, despite the male majors doing so from 1947.<br />
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This excellent dramedy makes up for it. Co-creator and star Abbi Jacobson (<i>‘Broad City’</i>) brings in real history, exploring the lesbian empowerment within her team, while telling the parallel story of a female pitcher aiming for the Negro Leagues. The twin-killing play gives vital new meaning to the title. Abbi and D’Arcy Carden (<i>‘The Good Place’</i>) are great, and the pitcher Chanté Adams and her bestie Gbemisola Ikumelo are priceless.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RESERVATION DOGS</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>4 teen friends on an Oklahoma reservation try to get beyond it.</i></font><br />
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This show’s worldbuilding has become so faceted that spin-offs for characters should be fast-tracked; i.e., the hard-partying Aunties; the Rap brothers on their banana bikes; the enigmatic Deer Lady. Showrunner Sterlin Harjo and his comedy collective friends are creating magic here.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How do you investigate a murder while you are the suspects?</i></font><br />
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On the case, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez find everyone on their case. This fine season is bigger, twistier, and more meta.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GIRLS5EVA</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The reunited girl group struggles to make their comeback album.</i></font><br />
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The really funny aspect of this riotous send-up of the slick and ageist Pop industry is how the group and the songs are actually so much better than the real stuff. And MVP Renée Elise Goldsberry (also on <i>‘She-Hulk’</i>) is the gold standard, folks. So what are you waiting 5?<br />
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(Moving from the hidden Peacock network to Netflix next season can only help this gem’s profile.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ABBOTT ELEMENTARY</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An idealistic teacher starts at a challenging Philadelphia school.</i></font><br />
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Creator and star Quinta Brunson refreshes the mockumentary style with pluck, bite, and sass. She’s adorable, Lisa Ann Walter is tough, and Sheryl Lee Ralph is dignity.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CHRISTMAS CAROLE</b></i></font> (England)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can the miser redeem her mistakes before it’s too late?</i></font><br />
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A 70-minute Holiday special, reinterpreting <i>“A Christmas Carol”</i>. The modern corporate exec thinks she knows the 3-Spirits schtick inside out (like you), but this scriptflip boomarangs around wild with metatext and mash-ups. Suranne Jones <small>(<i>'Gentleman Jack'</i>)</small> is drolly perfect as the distaff Scrooge.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE <font size="2">(1946)</font>, SCROOGE <font size="2">(England, 1951)</font>, SCROOGED <font size="2">(1988)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WEDNESDAY</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Wednesday Addams is in the crosshairs of a mystery at her new monster school.</i></font><br />
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Very akin to the CW network formula style, this spin-off of <i>‘The Addams Family’</i> (from the creators of <i>’Smallville’</i>) is generally good with breakout moments: its beguiling star, Jenna Ortega; her instantly iconic dance at the prom; and the comedy gold that electrifies the show when a certain relative shows up toward the end.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>’The Addams Family’</i> <font size="2">(1964-’66)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MURDERVILLE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Celebrity guests get the shakedown in an ad-libbed cop mystery show.</i></font><br />
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<i>‘Arrested Development‘</i> was known for its cast’s spry ad-libs. Will Arnett throws his friends into an improvised mystery each episode, chucking havoc to trip them up. Kumail Nanjiani acquits himself pretty deftly.<br />
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Classic Films are the timeless canon from which all movies expand. They are essential to be seen, and should be enjoyed at their best.<br />
Here are some of the important film restorations of the past year.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI</b></i> </font><small>(Germany, 1920)</small> ⇧<br />
Robert Wiene • 4k <i>(Masters Of Cinema)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>CASABLANCA</b></i></font> <small>(1942)</small> ⇧<br />
Michael Curtiz • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>SHADOW OF A DOUBT</b></i></font> <small>(1943)</small><br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>DOUBLE INDEMNITY</b></i></font> <small>(1944)</small><br />
Billy Wilder • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN</b></i></font> <small>(1952)</small> ⇧<br />
Gene Kelly + Stanley Donen • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>PATHS OF GLORY</b></i></font> <small>(1957)</small><br />
Stanley Kubrick • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE TRIAL</b></i></font> <small>(1962)</small><br />
Orson Welles • 4k <i>(Studio Canal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>LAWRENCE OF ARABIA</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1962)</small> ⇧<br />
David Lean • 4k <i>(Sony Pictures)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD</b></i></font> <small>(1962)</small><br />
Robert Mulligan • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>A HARD DAY’S NIGHT</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1964)</small> ⇧<br />
Richard Lester • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE</b></i></font> <small>(Italy, 1965)</small><br />
Sergio Leone • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT</b></i></font> <small>(1967)</small><br />
Norman Jewison • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”</b></i></font><br />
<small>(TV, 1970)</small><br />
Arthur Rankin/Jules Bass • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>SHAFT</b></i></font> <small>(1971)</small> ⇧<br />
Gordon Parks • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE GODFATHER</b></i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
Francis Ford Coppola • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE GODFATHER II</b></i></font> <small>(1974)</small> ⇧<br />
Francis Ford Coppola • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>COOLEY HIGH</b></i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
Michael Schultz • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>CARRIE</b></i></font> <small>(1976)</small> ⇧<br />
Brian De Palma • <i>(Shout Factory)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE LAST WALTZ</b></i></font> <small>(1978)</small><br />
Martin Scorsese • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK</b></i></font> <small>(1981)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>STAR TREK II: The Wrath Of Khan</b></i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Nicholas Meyer • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>POLTERGEIST</b></i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Tobe Hooper • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1983)</small> ⇧<br />
Terry Jones • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>WINGS OF DESIRE</b></i></font> <small>(Germany, 1987)</small><br />
Wim Wenders • 4k <i>(Curzon)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE LOVER</b></i></font> <small>(France/Vietnam, 1992)</small> ⇧<br />
Jean-Jacques Annaud • 4k <i>(MPI Media Group)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE</b></i></font> <small>(China, 2000)</small> ⇧<br />
Wong Kar-wai • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>The INFERNAL AFFAIRS Trilogy</b></i></font><br />
<small>(Hong Kong, 2002, 2003)</small><br />
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung + Alan Mak • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>WALL-E</b></i></font> <small>(2008)</small><br />
Andrew Stanton • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>CORALINE</b></i></font> <small>(2009)</small> ⇧<br />
Henry Selick • 4k <i>(Shout Factory)</i><br />
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<a name="C5"></a><font color="ffffff"><center><h1><b>C R I T E R I O N</b></h1></center></font><br />
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<center><small><i>PEPE LE MOKO</i>; <i>IVAN THE TERRIBLE</i>;<br />
<i>THE THIRD MAN</i>; <i>RASHOMON</i>;<br />
<i>ON THE WATERFRONT</i>; <i>THE CRANES ARE FLYING</i></small></center><br />
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Netflix is like the flashy dance club of streaming entertainment, but <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/"target=_blank>The Criterion Channel</a> is for the deep cuts of real culture.<br />
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It needs to be said. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu impress with their glossy New Now, and they do have many current gems, but they completely lack heritage classics. All width and no depth. That's all fun, but how long can you chew gum for supper? At some point, when you crave for a more well-rounded diet of substance that sustains your mind and soul, there's only one place to get serious about learning full-quality cinema... The Canon Of Great Films That Actually Matter.<br />
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<center><small><i>A RAISIN IN THE SUN</i>; <i>CLEO FROM 5 TO 7</i>;<br />
<i>MONTEREY POP</i>; <i>JEANNE DIELMAN</i>;<br />
<i>THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH</i>;<br />
<i>IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES</i></small></center><br />
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While other streaming sites are High School, <b>The Criterion Channel</b> is Oxford.<br />
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<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/" target="_blank">The Criterion Channel</a> film-streaming site is the best cinema from around the world and every decade since film began, along with new indie films and acclaimed documentaries. Plus, Criterion is the vanguard in restoring great films to a precision standard of picture and sound that matches the present. Restored classics now look better than the day they were struck. If you've watched Mark Cousins' <i>"The Story of Film: An Odyssey"</i> documentary series as a primer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey"target=_blank>></a>, this site is the true library to expand your enjoyment into the most essential film classics. Every fine film we appreciate now branches directly from the roots of these timeless works of cinematic art, whether it's a romance, period piece, character drama, guerilla handheld, Rock film, style fest, rebel indie, or avant garde. Get the whole picture.<br />
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Later for sugar, next for substance. Subscribe today.<br />
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<center><small><i>TIME BANDITS</i>; <i>MYSTERY TRAIN</i>;<br />
<i>TWIN PEAKS: Fire Walk With Me</i>;<br />
<i>HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH</i>;<br />
<i>PARIAH</i>; <i>BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR</i></small></center><br />
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<small>(also explore: <a href="https://www.fandor.com/"target=_blank>Fandor</a>, <a href="https://filmatique.com/"target=_blank>Filmatique</a>, <a href="https://mubi.com/"target=_blank>Mubi</a>, <a href="https://www.tcm.com/"target=_blank>Turner Classic Movies</a>, <a href="https://www.kanopy.com/"target=_blank>Kanopy</a>, <a href="https://filmhub.com/"target=_blank>Filmhub</a>, <a href="http://www.indiepixunlimited.com/"target=_blank>IndiePix</a>, <a href="https://www.indieflix.com/"target=_blank>IndieFlix</a>, <a href="https://www.ovid.tv/"target=_blank>Ovid</a>, <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/"target=_blank>BFI Player</a> (UK), <a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline"target=_blank>OpenCulture</a>)</small><br />
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<small>• This will often spotlight directors for special merit.<br />
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<small>• Because of distribution hurdles during the pandemic, films made before 2022 have their date in italics.</small><br />
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<center>Dramas, Histories, and Thought</center><br />
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<center><small>CLARA SOLA;<br />
SMALL BODY</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CLARA SOLA</b></i></font> (Costa Rica) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The odd woman in the forest village may have inner power.</i></font><br />
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Living in poverty in the jungle, the fragile and alienated Clara begins sensing there is more to life. Can she find a way out of local limits for what she secretly desires?<br />
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Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s film is gentle, honest, profoundly human, and quietly poetic.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“One Hundred years Of Solitude”</i> <font size="2">(1967)</font>, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SMALL BODY</b></i></font> (Italy) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How far will a mother go to save the soul of her lost child?</i></font><br />
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In 1900, a young woman in a remote shore town has a crisis. The only solution is to chance everything on an odyssey across the outside lands.<br />
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Laura Semani’s film about migration and transmigration is meditative, surprising, and redemptive.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT</b></i></font> (Germany)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The classic anti-war novel.</i></font><br />
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Remarque’s 1929 novel shocked the world, a bestseller that exposed the true horrors of the hideous apocalypse of the first World War beyond the agitprop posters and jingoism tunes. Veterans felt vindicated, pacifists and universities canonized it, and killdogs hated it. The latter fascists promptly led us into World War II.<br />
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This German production spares nothing, staring right into hell unblinking: the used youth, the territorial pissings, the corrupt chessmasters, the mad leaders. <i>“Forward, he cried from the rear/ And the front rank died.”</i> Don’t turn away.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT <font size="2">(US, 1930)</font>, Renoir’s LE GRANDE ILLUSION <font size="2">(France, 1937)</font>, Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY <font size="2">(US, 1957)</font>, Weir’s GALLIPOLI <font size="2">(Australia, 1981)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE WOMAN KING;<br />
TILL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE WOMAN KING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A fantasy retelling of the real African amazons.</i></font><br />
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For 200 years, into the 19th Century, armies of all-female warriors held sway in West Africa (and inspired all modern cultural amazons, from Wonder Woman to the Dora Milaje).<br />
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Offsetting colonialist narratives and complementing Kurosawa epics, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Dana Stevens’ fictional story creates a counter-myth for new campfire tales. An excellent cast and intense action are metronomed by a warm heart. And who doesn’t want to see Viola Davis kick all the ass?<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SEVEN SAMURAI <font size="2">(Japan, 1954)</font>, BLACK PANTHER: Wakanda Forever <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TILL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of how Emmett Till’s mother exposed the South’s murderous bigotry to the world.</i></font><br />
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Emmitt’s death in 1955 was the shocking turning point for the Civil Rights Movement. His distraught mother wouldn’t allow the truth to be covered up anymore, and tirelessly fought for justice using the media despite itself. Chinonye Chukwu’s film is arresting and Danielle Deadwyler’s performance is heartbreaking. You’ll cry, and that’s invaluable.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
‘Eyes On The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965’ <font size="2">(1987)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>SHE SAID;<br />
TAR</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CALL JANE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1968 Chicago, a female underground performs illegal abortions to save women’s lives.</i></font><br />
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Oppression 101: controlling reproduction means controlling women. ‘Keep them pregnant, keep them at home’. Slaver logic.<br />
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Though Birth Control was legalized in the US in 1960, abortion wasn’t until 1973. In that tumultuous gulf, female activists created a network of secret hostels to aid pregnant women who needed the medical help that the Patriarchy fiercely denied them. This fictional story directed by Phyllis Nagy is based on the real-life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective"target=_blank>Jane Collective</a>, framed cleverly through a conservative woman who comes to the movement by incremental degrees. The ever-great Sigourney Weaver as 'Jane' shines as the passionate heart of a wry story more timely and necessary than ever.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
The supremely corrupt Supreme Court.<br />
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THE GLORIAS <font size="2">(2020)</font>, <i>‘Mrs. America’</i> <font size="2">(2020)</font>, HAPPENING <font size="2">(France, 2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHE SAID</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of how two New York Times reporters revealed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes.</i></font><br />
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Rich men think they can get away with any abuse.<br />
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But there are still vestiges of the Fourth Estate<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate"target=_blank>></a> left in this corporate century, and Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor proved it. Directed by Maria Schrader, written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, this taut journalism thriller exposing Harvey Weinstein and entrenched sexism in the film industry galvanizes the head and stirs the soul.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the Women’s March of 2017; the #MeToo movement<br />
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ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font>, THE POST <font size="2">(2017)</font>; HALF THE PICTURE <font size="2">(Doc, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TAR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The famous symphony conductor is coming apart behind the scenes.</i></font><br />
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The chameleonic Cate Blanchett proves she’s the best yet again in Todd Field’s opus, an intricate psychological drama of formidable intelligence that builds like a stealth thriller. A thoughtful audit of its charismatic yet troubled lead that deeply interrogates character, status, outlooks, ambition, desire, motives, and ethics. No matter how you respond to those inquiries and where they lead, the film haunts you with its insights.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALL ABOUT EVE <font size="2">(1950)</font>, JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles <font size="2">(Belgium/France, 1975)</font>, BLACK SWAN <font size="2">(2010)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE FABELMANS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A ‘50s boy realizes he wants to be a filmmaker, while his family life begins to unravel.</i></font><br />
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Steven Spielberg reveals his secret origin story; how the magic of learning filmmaking gave him a sense of control as his parents started to fracture. Told softly, with caring empathy, it is as astute and frank as it is kind and funny.<br />
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Along the way, you pick up on the inspirations that led to hallmarks, themes, and techniques in his storied film canon.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
CINEMA PARADISO <font size="2">(Italy, 1988)</font>, SUPER 8 <font size="2">(2011)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ELVIS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Everybody, lets Rock!</i></font><br />
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No one does beautiful excess better than Baz Luhrmann, a theatrical stylist with no apologies or boundaries. His operatic collage of Elvis' exhilerating/incendiary life converts all sceptics into believers, a pulpit pound that expounds four on the floor, an inclusive metatext that desegregates, intersects, and illuminates. It is a mashup love letter to Rock 'n' Roll as spiritual liberation, a manifesto for communal creativity fueled by soulful connection, and a cautionary tale about the predators who destroy those. Austin Butler is truly mesmerizing as the king besieged without and within.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Watch in a double-feture with PRISCILLA <font size="2">(2023)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE LOST DAUGHTER;<br />
MURINA;<br />
AFTERSUN</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE LOST DAUGHTER</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>On holiday, the professor is haunted by the past while menaced by the present.</i></font><br />
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As she observes the happenings at a Greek resort while reminiscing, things become less like they seem, turning inward at odd angles. What’s really going on here? Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut captures all of the nuanced ambiguity of Elena Ferrante’s book, brought out through Olivia Colman’s complex performance.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PURPLE NOON <font size="2">(France, 1960)</font>, <i>‘My Brilliant Friend’</i> <font size="2">(2018-)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MURINA</b></i></font> (Croatia) <i>2021</i><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A teen sea diver might do anything to escape her island and her family.</i></font><br />
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Sick of her obnoxious father and the lonely outpost, she longs for the freedom of the monied tourists. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s first effort is a fresh and nuanced character story that escalates with tense suspense.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS <font size="2">(Puerto Rico, 2016)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>AFTERSUN</b></i></font> (UK/US)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Scottish 11-year-old and her dad go on vacation at a Turkish resort.</i></font><br />
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Much more than meets the eye. Charlotte Wells’ feature debut flows like a sunny home movie with breezy interplay between the duo. But underneath, a whole shadow world of implications, foreshadowings, and memories prism your perception of what’s happening.<br />
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Paul Mescal <small>(THE LOST DAUGHTER)</small> is typically good, but newcomer Frankie Corio gives a natural performance so unaffected that it all seems real.<br />
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<center><small>THE QUIET GIRL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE QUIET GIRL</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The miserable country girl opens up during a summer stay with relatives.</i></font><br />
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One of the best films of the year.<br />
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Lost in a loveless family and careless school, young Cait (the terrific Catherine Clinch) is adrift on everyone's neglect. With her aunt and uncle, she discovers what life and love can actually mean. This beautifully sensitive film, spoken in Irish, is as lovely as it is moving.<br />
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<center><small>PETITE MAMAN;<br />
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER;<br />
THE NOVICE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PETITE MAMAN</b></i></font> (France) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The other little girl in the forest her same age seems strangely familiar.</i></font><br />
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Written and directed by Céline Sciamma, this idyllic stroll through generational bonds is quiet and profound. After a loss, an 8-year-old girl explores the woods and discovers new perspectives on those she loves.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A writer on holiday with her mother finds the hotel estate unsettling.</i></font><br />
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The story here is actually more of a mood, an atmospheric setting, a series of suggestions. Like a lantern in a maze, Tilda Swinton holds us spellbound weaving her dexterous skill and intuitive subtlety.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE INNOCENTS <font size="2">(1961)</font>, THE HAUNTING <font size="2">(1963)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE NOVICE</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The driven rowing student may be destroying herself.</i></font><br />
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Sports films are always about the bonding and the win. Lauren Hadaway’s debut subverts this by telling something else unexpected and honest. How far is too far in pursuing a goal, in dealing with others, in qualifying achievement? Isabelle Fuhrman gives an intense performance.<br />
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<center><small>LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER;<br />
PLEASURE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What is a life that has everything, except passion or love?</i></font><br />
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D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 book was banned for four decades worldwide, simply for being a romance that was honest about sex and using some of the words associated with it.<a href="https://time.com/6238284/lady-chatterleys-lover-history-censorship/" target="_blank">></a> Beyond prudery, the ban intended to quell the idea of a woman stepping outside her station or having sexual agency.<br />
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Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre <small>(THE MUSTANG)</small> adapts this with a velvet grudge, directly embracing the story’s frank pleasure, free love, environmentalism, anti-classism, and pro-worker politics. (Hmmm, now what else did those censors have a problem with?)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship"target=_blank>></a> Shot lovely, paced briskly, acted without shame.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WOMEN IN LOVE <font size="2">(England, 1969)</font>, THE LOVER <font size="2">(France/Vietnam, 1992)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PLEASURE</b></i></font> (Sweden/France/Netherlands) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Swedish woman’s dreams of porn industry stardom run headlong into the realities.</i></font><br />
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This is not a sexploitation picture, or a porn video. It’s a character study without censorship.<br />
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Director Ninja Thyberg and a film crew of mainly women follow the fictional aspiring star’s quest in quasi-documentary style. Perversely (ba-dump-bump), the actual porn industry participates on camera, with warts-and-all candor; real directors, agents, and stars demonstrate the pros and cons of the shoots and themselves with an abandon that’s almost oblivious. It’s an eye-opener, and stays in the mind well after.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HARDCORE <font size="2">(1979)</font>, KAMIKAZE HEARTS <font size="2">(1986)</font>, doc’ series ’Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization’ <font size="2">(England, 2006)</font>, ‘The Deuce’ <font size="2">(2017-’19)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE NORTHMAN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The outcast prince vows revenge.</i></font><br />
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The Scandinavian legend of Amleth inspired Shakespeare’s <i>“Hamlet”</i>. Robert Eggers <small>(THE WITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE)</small> goes full epic here with his take on it. BATMAN BEGINS with barbarians? JOHN WICK with swords? THE WITCH II with Anya Taylor-Joy? It’s an engaging eyeful, at least.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
HAMLET <font size="2">(England, 1948)</font>, THE GREEN KNIGHT <font size="2">(England, 2021)</font>, HAMLET <font size="2">(US, 2021)</font>, DUNE Part One <font size="2">(France, 2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OFFICIAL COMPETITION</b></i></font> (Spain)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A radical director deliberately casts two lead actors who despise each other.</i></font><br />
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Flat-out hilarious. A bold/crazed director (the impish Penelope Cruz) rubs a method actor (Oscar Martinez) against a hunk star (Antonio Banderas) for firewood and ignites chaos. Curveballs, poignancy, and mayhem zag around every turn. The best by bounds.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TRIANGLE OF SADNESS</b></i></font> (Sweden/Germany/France/UK)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The rich go on a cruise that isn’t smooth sailing.</i></font><br />
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A bitter antidote that goes down like honey. Ruben Östlund’s social satire rolls deceptively easy, breezily setting up the dominoes of bedlam. A brutal takedown of the greedy, the callous, and the selfish that will keep you amused or cheering the whole way.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE SQUARE <font size="2">(Sweden, 2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MATILDA The Musical</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The misfit genius at the horrible school has a will of her own.</i></font><br />
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Roald Dahl’s acclaimed 1988 young adult book was adapted as the long-running stage musical <small>(2010)</small>. The stage creators -director, writer, songwriter- return here translating it to the screen.<br />
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Imagine if Pink Floyd’s <i>“The Wall”</i> had been written by Syd Barrett instead, and staged by Tim Burton. This family-friendly romp loses no iota of Dahl’s outrageous wickedness, a stylish day-glo singalong with a brazenly Punk spirit. Its passionate defense of books and learning, of care and love, of kids and friends, and fierce blowback against those who would oppress these, is as jolting as it is great fun.<br />
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Unrecognizable in make-up, Emma Thompson roars as the villain with the same glorious abandon as her <small>NANNY McPHEE</small> films. The versatile Lashana Lynch <small>(NO TIME TO DIE, THE WOMAN KING, CAPTAIN MARVEL)</small> gifts us her voice. But the gale force here is newcomer Alisha Weir as Matilda, whose charm, singing, and pure ferocity ripple like the jet stream.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY <font size="2">(1971)</font>, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH <font size="2">(1996)</font>, FANTASTIC MR. FOX <font size="2">(2009)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>FIRE ISLAND</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A gay rom-com on the famous vacation isle.</i></font><br />
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Writer and star Joel Kim Booster balances smart subtext with slapstick fun, lobbing zingers and insight about young friends navigating lust and love. Brightly cartoonish, deviously subversive, brazenly whacky, quietly sweet. Catch the boat.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE <font size="2">(1940)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two old friends fall out in a lacerating spiral.</i></font><br />
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The quarrel between two buddies in 1923 becomes a metaphor for the infighting that will eat up Ireland’s century.<br />
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Not so much a black comedy as a fun time that tilts bleak. The rollicking comedy aspects, particularly the first hour, are worth the whole trip. The drama bent takes a macabre turn that may test your journey. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are great, but Kerry Condon steals it from them as the sensible sister.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IN BRUJES <font size="2">(2008)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DALILAND</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The art world is a surreal place.</i></font><br />
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A fun romp through Salvador Dali’s ’70s bacchanalias, most effective in the character moments where Ben Kingsley really shines.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Her mundane life suddenly opens up to a multiplicity of possible lives.</i></font><br />
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The best ComedyDramaIndieFamilySciFiWushuFantasy+ of the year.<br />
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Why accept limits? This film shatters all false boundaries between characters, outlooks, sexuality, nationality, age, and genre. Like Evelyn (the ubiquitous Michelle Yeoh), you can be anything and enjoy everything. Many do, which is why this movie became an instant classic.<br />
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Trad critics will continue hewing to the mundane, touting safe films set in the bleak past or angsty suburbia or the office grind, often relevant solely for their suffocating classism, or their resigned banality, or for (the current go-to buzz phrase) “processing grief”. Beyond these unmindful restraints, the varied is still valid. In the real world, fluid minds embrace the full range of life and imagination and possibility.<br />
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Because life is every thing and not just one.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
KUNG FU HUSTLE <font size="2">(China, 2004)</font>, ANOTHER EARTH <font size="2">(2011)</font>, DOCTOR STRANGE And The Multiverse Of Madness <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>NEPTUNE FROST</b></i></font> (Rwanda)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>His and her paths lead to a hacker underground disrupting the internet.</i></font><br />
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The best CyberpunkAfrofuturistPostgenderArthouseMusicalRomance of the year.<br />
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Rapper Saul Williams and playwright Anisia Uzeyman accord us this bounty, where conscripted miners rise up and become a hacker collective trying to liberate the world. Williams’ music, Uzeyman’s moody cinematography, and a vital cast create a low-budget, high-concept manifesto.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPACE IS THE PLACE <font size="2">(1974)</font>, THE MATRIX <font size="2">(1999)</font>, PUMZI <font size="2">(Kenya short, 2009)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>VESPER;<br />
STRAWBERRY MANSION</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>VESPER</b></i></font> (Lithuania/ France/ Belgium)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In a classist dystopic future with food scarcity, she might have a chance at saving everyone.</i></font><br />
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Cast out from the stingy bubble cities, the poor forage the wild for survival, as teen Vesper tries to save her ailing father. Surreal, understated, dreamy, and beautifully shot (Feliksas Abrukauskas).<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IO <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STRAWBERRY MANSION</b></i></font> <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The tax-collector of dreams finds a special house he can’t quantify.</i></font><br />
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Like a jam session between Lewis Carroll and Philip K. Dick. Dreams on VHS, time slips, absurdist satire, fedoras. What, you want more?<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A literary scholar finds that fables may be true when she discovers a djinn in a bottle.</i></font><br />
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George Miller's first film since MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is a fine effort the crowd missed out on. A modern fable laced with ancient fables, lushly crafted with a global cast, and lit through by the chemistry between Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SOMETHING IN THE DIRT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two neighbors try to make a documentary about the strange force in an apartment.</i></font><br />
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A psuedo-doc’, made by its stars, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, where a pair of mismatched idlers try to exploit the inversion of physics taking over the living room. Deceptively smart and archly funny.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT <font size="2">(1999)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BIGBUG</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Suburban neighbors are locked in together by a rogue robot takeover.</i></font><br />
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The increasingly rare Jean-Pierre Jeunet <small>(CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, AMELIE)</small> returns and that should be enough for you. But this <i>‘Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal’</i>-style SciFi comedy, with its fabulous ’50s Futurism and adroit slapstick, is the bonus.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Tati’s MON ONCLE <font size="2">(France, 1958)</font>, Gilliam’s THE ZERO THEOREM <font size="2">(2013)</font>, ‘Humans’ <font size="2">(England, 2015)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DON’T WORRY DARLING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An idyllic Space Age tract house community in the desert may be built on a terrible secret.</i></font><br />
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Olivia Wilde’s acerbic parable about domesticity, patriarchy, and capitalism keeps you guessing. Florence Pugh earned acclaim for her performance this year in THE WONDER, but in truth she is much more faceted here.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>’Manhattan’</i> <font size="2">(2014-’16)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE INNOCENTS</b></i></font> (Norway) <small><i>2021</i></small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>During summer break, stray kids in the apartment complex start discovering strange abilities.</i></font><br />
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This film’s easy lightness constantly disarms you before things go alarming. (Look away during the cat sequence.) The genuine performances by the young children beguile you while the edge creeps in.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED <font size="2">(England, 1960)</font>, LORD OF THE FLIES <font size="2">(England, 1963)</font>, CARRIE <font size="2">(1976)</font></small><br /><br>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PREY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Comanche woman in 1719 takes on an alien invader.</i></font><br />
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This prequel is the only PREDATOR sequel that matters. It gains all that cred from the inspired focus on Native Americans in an earlier time. Amber Midthunder <small>(<i>‘Legion’</i>)</small> is so effective as the Comanche warrior that the film almost doesn’t need the alien aspect at all. (Unless it’s as a metaphor for colonialism).<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PREDATOR <font size="2">(1987)</font>, A QUIET PLACE <font size="2">(2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SLASH/BACK</b></i></font> (Canada)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Teen Inuit girls lead a stand against alien invaders in a remote icy outback.</i></font><br />
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Nyla Innuksuk’s feature debut is a winner, filmed in the farflung fjord of Pangnirtung with a cast of local amateurs who knock it out of the park. The location, cast, and situations are so rich and funny that there should be an ongoing TV series in the mode of <i>‘Reservation Dogs’</i> beyond this adventure.<br />
<small>[Stares at the camera.]</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE THING <font size="2">(1982)</font>, <i>‘Fortitude’</i> <font size="2">(2015-’18)</font>, <i>‘Reservation Dogs’</i> <font size="2">(2021-)</font></small><br />
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<center>Mysteries, Thrillers, and Investigations</center><br />
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<center><small>DECISION TO LEAVE;<br />
KIMI</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DECISION TO LEAVE</b></i></font> (S. Korea)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A homicide detective discovers that two unconnected cases have one mysterious woman in common.</i></font><br />
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Director Park Chan-wook <small>(SNOWPIERCER)</small> returns with an layered abstraction on VERTIGO (Invertigo?). Knowing this going in won’t keep you ahead of this stealthy interpolation of that beloved refrain. Tang Wei <small>(LUST, CAUTION)</small> is mesmerizing as the suspect, and Kim Ji-yong’s cinematography is startlingly inventive.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
VERTIGO <font size="2">(1958)</font>, STAKEOUT <font size="2">(Japan, 1958)</font>, Park’s THE HANDMAIDEN <font size="2">(S. Korea, 2016)</font>, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT <font size="2">(China, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GOD’S CROOKED LINES</b></i></font> (Spain)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The woman in the mental institute claims to be uncovering a crime.</i></font><br />
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In post-Fascist 1979 Spain, a woman checks into an asylum. With direct purpose, she pursues her secret investigation of a recent death here. In another timeline, a mysterious murder happens. But what is really going on here, and where will it lead?<br />
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Bárbara Lennie captivates in this taut thriller, based on Luca de Tena’s acclaimed book.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
GASLIGHT <font size="2">(1944)</font>, MEMENTO <font size="2">(2000)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>KIMI</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A remote tech discovers recorded evidence of a murder.</i></font><br />
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Soderbergh’s abstraction of REAR WINDOW for the cyber age, cannily turning the gaze from other windows to the monitor screen that watches us. Zoe Kravitz (also heralded this year in <small>THE BATMAN</small>) is a shut-in suddenly caught up in a conspiracy that pushes her limits.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
REAR WINDOW <font size="2">(1954)</font>, BODY DOUBLE <font size="2">(1984)</font>, Soderbergh’s SIDE EFFECTS <font size="2">(2013)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>On the rich man’s island retreat, all of the guests become suspect.</i></font><br />
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Rian Johnson’s clever KNIVES OUT <small>(2019)</small> was just a warm-up for this ambitious, better sequel.<br />
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For starters, Daniel Craig’s detective is far more shaded and physical in this one, a comic riposte to his Bond. He’s clearly having a ball.<br />
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Wider, the intricate mystery is also one of the funniest comedies of the year. It’s a gleeful meta-text that roasts all forms of modern selfishness: odious tech messiahs, influencer vampires, alpha dawgs, corrupt politicos, classist stupidity, bougie excess, consumer addicts, foolish blowhards, and callous bigots. The primo cast is in on the joke and all excel, especially Janelle Monae. The result is a film so rich you have to see it multiple times to savor it all.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE <font size="2">(2018)</font>, KNIVES OUT <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/03/no-time-to-die-how-james-bond-advanced.html"target=_blank>NO TIME TO DIE: How James Bond Advanced Beyond</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE PALE BLUE EYE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>There are terrible murders happening at West Point in 1830.</i></font><br />
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A haunted investigator (Christian Bale) probes a series of killings with aid from an eccentric cadet named Poe. Moody, twisting, stark, tense, the tale unfolds like a fever dream.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FROM HELL <font size="2">(2001)</font>, INSOMNIA <font size="2">(2002)</font>, <i>‘The Fall of The House Of Usher’</i> <font size="2">(2023)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE WONDER</b></i></font> (Ireland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1860s Ireland, a nurse is sent to discover why the country girl who never eats survives.</i></font><br />
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A spare tale in an austere landscape. The English nurse (Florence Pugh) navigates local distrust, loneliness, and terrible secrets in her pursuit. Her passion lights up this strange purgatory.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ENOLA HOMES 2</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Sherlock’s teen sister gets a foot in the game.</i></font><br />
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Based on Springer’s book series, Millie Bobby Brown <small>(<i>'Stranger Things'</i>)</small> hits her stride with this funny, nimble sequel. Any Holmes story tends to be good, and any feminist twist on him is all for the better.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Sherlock’</i> <font size="2">(Series 4, 2017)</font>, <i>’Miss Sherlock’</i> <font size="2">(Japan, 2018)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE OUTFIT;<br />
EMILY THE CRIMINAL</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE OUTFIT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A quiet suit-maker runs afoul of the mob in 1955 Chicago.</i></font><br />
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The Cutter from Saville Row just wants to go about his business. Sharp as shears, this shrewd mystery thriller is a must-see with an impeccable cast, particularly Mark Rylance in the lead and Johnny Flynn as the seething hood.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE DROP <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>EMILY THE CRIMINAL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A student overwhelmed by debt tries to save herself through crime.</i></font><br />
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Indentured servitude ends, but slavery doesn’t. Capitalism is the ultimate slaver system, and debt is our path to death.<br />
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This fleet film deftly calls out a corrupt nation that cripples students through education debt. Aubrey Plaza is at her best here, an anyone pushed into reflecting the corruption she is the victim of.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> <font size="2">(2008-’13)</font>, NIGHTCRAWLER <font size="2">(2014)</font>, WIDOWS <font size="2">(2018)</font><br />
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Higher education should be free, end all student debt.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>CATCH THE FAIR ONE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The boxer goes undercover to find her abducted sister.</i></font><br />
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Real life boxer Kali Reis co-wrote and stars in this thriller, uncovering the trafficking of Native American women into limbo. Spare as a short story, sober as a documentary, it defuses revenge flick cliches with its clear-eyed realism.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
OLOTURE <font size="2">(Nigeria, 2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>AMSTERDAM</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A (relatively) true story of 1930s international espionage.</i></font><br />
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This mystery comedy is a clever jigsaw puzzle with a stellar cast, always canny and enjoyable with welcome social bite (if a bit long).<br />
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<br />Also:<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SEE HOW THEY RUN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Someone in the theatre’s murder mystery cast may be… a murderer!</i></font><br />
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This mild spoof is good for chuckles, especially with stand-out performances from an ardent Saoirse Ronan and campy David Oyelowo.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A SHOT IN THE DARK <font size="2">(1964)</font>, MURDER BY DEATH <font size="2">(1976)</font>, CLUE <font size="2">(1985)</font></small><br />
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<center>Films from Word/Art sources</center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BATMAN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Dark Knight Detective must outwit The Riddler to save the city.</i></font><br />
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In the early-’70s, writer Denny O’Neil and realist illustrator Neal Adams redefined Batman as the modern, edgy Dark Knight: a stiletto-eared night demon melting from the shadows to terrify the cruel, the greedy, and the lethal. The Shadow, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes in one black gargoyle.<br />
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Matt Reeves is the canny synthesist that Zack Snyder will never be. If Christopher Nolan’s exemplary DARK KNIGHT trilogy captured all of O’Neil/Adams’ work except the film noir and mysticism, director Reeves floors the pedal with those aspects, wedding ‘70s New Hollywood noir to ’90s Grunge. The resulting incubus is spellbinding.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
KLUTE <font size="2">(1971)</font>, THE GODFATHER <font size="2">(1972)</font>, ZODIAC <font size="2">(2007)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">Also hear:</font><br />
<i>“Something In The Way”</i> <font size="2">(1991)</font>, by Nirvana</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>DOCTOR STRANGE In The Multiverse Of Madness</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Will the sorcerer defend or destroy the girl who holds the key to the multiverse?</i></font><br />
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From cosmic sorcery to black magic. Director Sam Raimi <small>(THE EVIL DEAD, SPIDER-MAN 2)</small> tailors a horror movie, corded with a sci-fi dimensional odyssey.<br />
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Just as all ‘comic book movies’ or ’superhero films’ are actually separate genre styles from each other (e.g., demi-god, post-modern, film noir, mythology, Sci-Fi, fantasy, comedy, anime, spy, indie confessional, western, etc.), so this sequel is different from the first. For all of Raimi’s patented visual flair, attention should be focused on a strong story that really pushes the edge, with surprises and shocks at every turn, and a mosaic performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE EVIL DEAD II <font size="2">(1987)</font>, <i>‘What If’</i> <font size="2">(Season 1, 2022)</font>, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BLACK PANTHER: Wakanda Forever</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Panther is dead, long live the new Panther.</i></font><br />
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Here’s a film “processing grief” that is genuine and brilliant.<br />
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Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death forced this sequel to face that harsh reality. The result is a layered and moving rumination on loss -in family, ethics, and belief in self- as good as any out there. Couple this with a staggering cultural collision -Afrofuturism vs. Mayan futurism, a social comment on how cultures work against each other instead of uniting against a common oppressor writ on an operatic scale. And then there is Letitia Wright <small>(<i>'Small Ax'</i>)</small>, a superb actor stepping to the fore and taking the mantle. Undeniable.<br />
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<blockquote><font color="ffffff">★</font> <font color="9999ff">Here’s the thing, critics. WAKANDA is a smart film with a poignant story and impeccable craft, while RRR (India) is an empty style-void that’s only notable for its silly excess. If you snub the first while overpraising the second, then you don’t know your bias from a hole in the ground.</font></blockquote><br />
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<center>Animation and Moving Art </center><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE SEA BEAST</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The seafaring monster-hunters take on the wrong quarry.</i></font><br />
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Along with TREASURE ISLAND <small>(1951)</small>, this immediately became my favorite pirate movie ever.<br />
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Point blank, it is richer in inspiration and soul in any 10 minutes than many of the dry dramas on most <i>’Year's Best’</i> lists put together. Trads may howl foul, but the facts are intact. After all, why should mundanity be the metric? A cornucopia always beats famine.<br />
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Here lies a bounty of riches. The craft is astonishing: a rich character story with crisp turns; a refreshingly global crew; exquisite art direction and design; and an infectiously adorable lead in little Maisie Brumble. C’mon, that name alone. This film is greatness from stem to stern.<br />
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Netflix Animation just gave Pixar and Disney a serious run for their cred. Hoist the flag.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Moby Dick”</i> <font size="2">(1851)</font>, <i>“Treasure Island”</i> <font size="2">(1883)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TREASURE ISLAND <font size="2">(1951)</font>, MOANA <font size="2">(2016)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html"target=_blank>THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TURNING RED</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Mei hits adolescence and turns into a big red monster beyond control.</i></font><br />
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The truly excellent Pixar movie of the year.<br />
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Wound tight in a traditional Chinese-American household, young Mei’s life unravels when her monthly visit starts, unleashing a big red fuzzy beast self. Domee Shi’s quickwit film is a pure blast, as sensitive as it is uproarious.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE NAMESAKE <font size="2">(2007)</font>, ENCANTO <font size="2">(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LIGHTYEAR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The origin adventure of Buzz Lightyear.</i></font><br />
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To be clear, this isn’t a spin-off of the toy from TOY STORY, but instead the pretend ‘90s SciFi film’ from which the toy was derived. Despite lackluster response from folks, this is actually a very good movie, with many great moments. Time will bring them around.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
the TOY STORY films, <i>‘Star Trek: Prodigy’</i> <font size="2">(2021-)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>APOLLO 10 1/2;<br />
BELLE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>APOLLO 10 <small>1/2</small>:<br />
A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Texas boy is chosen by NASA in 1969 to go to the moon secretly before Apollo 11.</i></font><br />
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Richard Linklater reveals his origin story, growing up in a Texas suburb directly connected to the Space Race. The moon launch framework is fun, but the real charm of the film is the candid and witty parade of anecdotes about his home life and the era.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A SCANNER DARKLY <font size="2">(2006)</font>, BOYHOOD <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html"target=_blank>2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>BELLE</b></i></font> (Japan)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A charming cyberpunk reboot of “Beauty And The Beast’”.</i></font><br />
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This lovely and well-crafted anime contrasts a normal boring life with a fantastical virtual life, forcing a young girl to question each. A positive empowerment tale, some sideways romance, nice songs, and mindtrip visuals.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Cocteau’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST <font size="2">(France, 1946)</font>, WHISPER OF THE HEART <font size="2">(Japan, 1995)</font>, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME <font size="2">(Japan, 2006)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>INU-OH</b></i></font> (Japan)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Centuries ago in feudal Japan, two outcasts challenge the system with music.</i></font><br />
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The latest Science SARU production, helmed by the iconoclastic Masaaki Yuasa, is everything great at once: an impressionistic legend told in varying art styles, from ink to wash to paint; an excellent Rock Opera (!) with great songs and theatric sequences; and a layered allegory protesting all oppressors who ostracize the different, from creativity to appearance to outlook. Hold up your fist and say, "We are here."<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PINOCCHIO</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The puppet who wanted to be a boy.</i></font><br />
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Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong dream project, realized in stop-animation. This finely crafted version has gritty candor, a sterling voice cast, top-notch songs, and -set in the tyranny of Fascist Italy- some seriously relevant political punch against all forms of oppression.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
PINOCCHIO <font size="2">(1940)</font>, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH <font size="2">(1996)</font>, THE BOXTROLLS <font size="2">(2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>IF THESE WALLS COULD SING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Mary McCartney's doc about the legendary Abbey Road Studios, with Paul, Ringo, and many more.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MOONAGE DAYDREAM</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK AND BLUES</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The life story of the Jazz ambassador.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How photographer Nan Goldin exposed the rich family behind the opoid crisis.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RIOTSVILLE, USA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In the '60s, the US Government trained soldiers in fake town sets to crush social dissent.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>FRAMING AGNES</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A transgender history, with analysis and reenactments.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE LAST MOVIE STARS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE COME UP</b></i></font> (TV series)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>6 young creators try to make it in NYC.</i></font><br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE DAILY SHOW, with Trevor Noah</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BETTER CALL SAUL</b></i></font> 6<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale.</i></font><br />
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If <i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> is THE GODFATHER, then <i>‘Better Call Saul’</i> is THE GODFATHER II; while the first is a linear crime drama, the second is a prequel/sequel simultaneously, telling a wider and deeper story in between those time contrasts about consequences and redemptions.<br />
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Where will reflection lead you? Note how Saul’s memories are often in dark rooms lit by available light from outside, a reverse chiaroscuro, a naturalist noir. Is he trying to illume insight from his past or find escape from the present through his recollections? The finale season is an unsparing mirror on that choice, sharply focused and bluntly realistic.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Breaking Bad’</i> <font size="2">(2008-’13)</font>, EL CAMINO <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GENTLEMAN JACK</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Anne Lister enacts grand plans to take over 1830s Halifax, Yorkshire.</i></font><br />
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The real-life Lister was a businesswoman who hid her secret sexual life in encrypted journals. Recently deciphered, they are interpreted in Sally Wainwright’s <small>('<i>Happy Valley'</i>)</small> shrewd dramedy series, holding a mirror to our current progress and lapses. Suranne Jones is completely mesmeric as the lead.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Tipping The Velvet’</i> <font size="2">(2002)</font>, CAROL <font size="2">(2005)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE HANDMAID’S TALE</b></i></font> 5<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can June escape the damage left inside her?</i></font><br />
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Must pain lead only to violence? To its estimable credit, the penultimate season of the series processes all of this unflinchingly, hearing the heart but heeding the head. June (Elisabeth Moss) grows deeper while the scope expands wider, setting the stage for the finale season.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“The Handmaid’s Tale”</i> <font size="2">(1985)</font> and <i>“The Testaments”</i> <font size="2">(2019)</font>, by Margueriete Atwood</small><br />
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<font color="008ae6"><i>Are the crimes happening on a 1971 Navajo reservation connected?</i></font><br />
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Tony Hillerman wrote 18 popular mystery novels about Rez cops; three each about Leaphorn and then Chee, before the duo teamed up from the seventh onward.<br />
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This adaptation series combines them from the beginning, clashing and then bonding. It’s a solid show, if a tad basic at times. It’s truest value is in simply being there, showcasing the community, their traditions, their conflicts, their dislocation and struggle in a colonized wilderness. There should be a hundred shows in all genres about Native Americans, to make up for lost time and neglect, and this helps. The omnipresent Zahn McClarnon is reliably good, while Jessica Matten breaks out as the intuitive sergeant.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Frontline: The Spirit Of Crazy Horse’</i> <font size="2">(PBS, 1990)</font>, THUNDERHEART <font size="2">(1992)</font>, SIOUX CITY <font size="2">(1994)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHERWOOD</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An English town divided by bitter history is fissured anew by two murders.</i></font><br />
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Set in Knottinghamshire, this modern procedural uses two killings (inspired by actual events) to examine an unjust past. The town still seethes over a fallout between Unions during the Miners Strike of 1984. While telling a gripping investigation, the series sheds light on the fascistic methods Thatcher had used to divide and conquer the working class. (The lawyer’s ‘Deep Throat’ informer scene in episode 4 nails it.) Playwright James Graham’s sharp series has an excellent cast, great heart, and fleet turns.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
CASTLE IN THE SKY <font size="2">(Japan, 1986)</font>, THE BIG MAN <font size="2">(England, 1990)</font>, BILLY ELLIOTT <font size="2">(England, 2000)</font>, <i>’Happy Valley’</i> <font size="2">(2014-’23)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SLOW HORSES</b></i></font> 1 + 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>MI5’s house for outcast spies gets down and dirty.</i></font><br />
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Imagine if Harry Palmer from THE IPCRESS FILE <small>(1967)</small> became seedy and jaded after a long career. That’s the underlying premise here, adapted from Mick Herron’s espionage book series. Gary Oldman clearly relishes playing the caustic bastard Jackson Lamb, flipping quips like shurikens. Add to this zigzag cases, a misfit ensemble, and tight cinematography for the total win.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE IPCRESS FILE <font size="2">(1967)</font>, <i>‘The Iprcess File’</i> <font size="2">(2022)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>RIDLEY ROAD; THE IPCRESS FILE</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RIDLEY ROAD</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>With Fascism on the rise in 1963 London, a young Jewish woman infiltrates the enemy.</i></font><br />
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A 4-episode fiction series set in the actual events of the time, when the hideous Colin Jordan began his neo-Nazi crusade. Director Lisa Mulcahy and writer Sarah Solemani adapt Jo Bloom’s book into a gripping thriller, helmed by impressive newcomer Agnes O’Casey as the brave lead.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘The Hour’</i> <font size="2">(England, 2011-’12)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE IPCRESS FILE</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A reimagining of the classic 1967 spy film.</i></font><br />
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Dovetailing with the new <i>‘Slow Horses’</i> series (above) comes a mini-series rethinking Len Deighton’s spy book. The show is keenly aware of the classic 1967 film version, winking at its low-angled shots and <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/05/john-barry-mr-kiss-kiss-bang-bang-and.html"target=_blank>Barry</a>’s haunting score, while expanding past it with nervy verve. Our favorite spy anti-hero ups the ante tackling a global conspiracy, capering into a finale with more twists than Chubby Checker.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE IPCRESS FILE <font size="2">(1967)</font>, JFK <font size="2">(1991)</font>, <i>'Slow Horses’</i> <font size="2">(2022-)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>THE OFFER;<br />
GASLIT</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE OFFER</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The impossible and astonishing making of THE GODFATHER.</i></font><br />
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Mario Puzo’s unstoppable bestseller was never going to get made as a movie.<br />
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At every step, it was hindered by clueless corporate execs, a coked-out studio head, squabbling creators, erratic actors, budget crunch, puppet politicos, and the actual Mafia. Despite all this incessant lack of vision, producer Al Ruddy helped Coppola triumph with what many consider the finest American movie ever made. Don’t refuse this astounding trip.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE GODFATHER <font size="2">(1972)</font>, THE GODFATHER II <font size="2">(1974)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>GASLIT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Margaret Mitchell knew about Watergate before anyone, but who would listen?</i></font><br />
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John Mitchell was the head of Nixon’s reelection committee (or CREEP) and authorized the 1972 Watergate break-in. After press leaks from his wife, he had her kidnapped.<br />
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This series is most valuable as a clear linear breakdown of how the break-in occurred and who was involved. (It’s less effective when it plays the burglars for laughs.) Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are strong leads, while Shea Whigham goes off as the psychotic G. Gordon Liddy.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Watch ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN <font size="2">(1976)</font>, and then MARK FELT <font size="2">(2017)</font>, and then this mini-series.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PISTOL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The story of the Sex Pistols, from guitarist Steve Jones’ perspective.</i></font><br />
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Based on Jones’ memoir, you might expect a skewed brag-and-slag.<br />
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Never mind that. Instead, writer Craig Pearce and director Danny Boyle <small>(TRAINSPOTTING)</small> tell the history of the Sex Pistols in six hours with unflinching honesty and uniform fairness. Jones owns up to his flaws and insecurities, abused homelife, criminal record, and band missteps while crediting everyone around him for their valuable acts, from McClaren to Westwood to Lydon to Jordan to Hynde. Punk is really about destroying all artifice and constraint, and the bracing honesty here is the punkest act possible.<br />
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Aiding this is the perfect craft: shot handheld, film-grain, square ratio like 1976; the diverse entourage and their eclectic music tastes; the actors actually performing the music, learning to play as they went; the uncanny cast likenesses of everyone from Don Letts to Siouxsie; and the political context of why it all matters, more than ever. Every minute of this works.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Temple’s THE FILTH AND THE FURY <font size="2">(doc, 2000)</font>, Letts’ PUNK: Attitude <font size="2">(doc, 2005)</font><br />
<font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“England’s Dreaming”</i> <font size="2">(1991)</font>, by Jon Savage</small><br />
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<center><small>SHINING GIRLS;<br />
WE OWN THIS CITY</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHINING GIRLS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An assault survivor finds the fabric of her life mysteriously changing around her.</i></font><br />
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Imagine watching <i>‘Mindhunter’</i> as it slowly turns into TIME AFTER TIME. In the best David Fincher-meets-Gillian Flynn style, this moody and well-crafted mystery grows more surreal and surprising as it goes.<br />
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A newspaper archivist (Elizabeth Moss) recovering from trauma discovers she has some connection to a recent murder, as her reality seems to be altering without explanation.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
TIME AFTER TIME <font size="2">(1979)</font>, ZODIAC <font size="2">(2007)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>WE OWN THIS CITY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The true story of the corrupt Baltimore police.</i></font><br />
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Everyone wants a sequel to <i>‘The Wire’</i>, which many feel is the best TV series ever made.<br />
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Writers George Pelecanos and David Simon come back with the closest thing to it examining the true story of a corrupt cop squad, a lens through which they expose the rampant corruption of the current Baltimore justice system.<br />
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This invaluable series indicts the U.S. Police State for what it is: bigots with war weaponry sanctioned by an unspoken civic mandate to oppress the citizens.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘The Wire’</i> <font size="2">(2002-’08)</font>, <i>'The Shield’</i> <font size="2">(2002-’08)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Picard</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To the alternate Past, and his past altered.</i></font><br />
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<i>‘Picard’</i> is about second chances, and about facing harsh times to forge better ones. This fine season put his current crew to the test, while setting the stage for the return of his original crew.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’</i>, “Past Tense” <font size="2">(S03/E11+12; 1997)</font>, <i>‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’</i>, “Family” <font size="2">(S04/E02; 1990)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Strange New Worlds</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The adventures of the Enterprise before the Original Series.</i></font><br />
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Before Kirk, there was Captain Pike. 55 years in the making, we at last get to revel in the possibilities. The beauty of the show is how well it channels everything right about the Original Series <small>(1966-’69</small>), while amping that in ways we’ve never seen (a la <i>‘Discovery’</i>). Bold.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Trek’</i>, “The Menagerie” <font size="2">(S01/E11+12, 1967)</font>, <i>‘Star Trek: Discovery’</i>, Season 2 <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE ORVILLE: New Horizons</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The parallel ‘Star Trek’ gets bigger and bolder.</i></font><br />
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Hopping from Fox to Hulu with a whopping new budget, the ‘Next Gen Lite’ dramedy made 80-minute mini-movies with hyper-ramped effects each episode. The strongest stories revolved around the new youth, Topa (Imani Pullum).<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OBI-WAN KENOBI</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The hinge from the Prequel Trilogy to the Original Trilogy.</i></font><br />
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<i>"She's just as important as he is."</i> Stepping out of young Luke’s orbit, the Jedi looks after the Other.<br />
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What’s most impressive here is how well this mini-trilogy (6 hours) bridges the genocidal Episode III to the optimistic Episode IV: the brave choice of processing Kenobi’s debilitating PTSD from guilt; the fate of padewans; finally seeing young Leia on Alderaan; and all the subtle ways it ties up loose ends and continuity transitions.<br />
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Ewan MacGregor is shaded here in ways we haven’t seen before, from grief to paternal. The finale saber fight is shocking. And the delightful 10-year-old Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) is the best best.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Star Wars: Rebels’</i>, “Twilight Of The Apprentice” <font size="2">(S02/E21+22, 2016)</font> and “Twin Suns” <font size="2">(S03/E20, 2017)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>Mercenary and/or Rebel.</small></center>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ANDOR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The ambitious prequel to ROGUE ONE.</i></font><br />
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This is adroit you’re looking for.<br />
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STAR WARS needs to get out of mirroring itself by remembering its inspirations, goals, and possibilities. Here, a pre-prequel to the edgy prequel ROGUE ONE <small>(2016)</small> takes a sober ‘70s SciFi arthouse approach that bypasses nostalgia for mature intensity.<br />
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<i>’Andor’</i> is a hyperjump advance, a tale of personal crisis within an espionage epic, which includes a heist, political conspiracy, class soap, prison break, and slave revolt. Shot like an art film, paced like a novel, felt like a nervous breakthrough. Profoundly humanist, vehemently anti-fascist, fragilely hopeful.<br />
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Catch up to the Revolution.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE <font size="2">(1961)</font>, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS <font size="2">(Italy/Algiers, 1966)</font>, MATEWAN <font size="2">(1987)</font>, AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD <font size="2">(1991)</font></small><br />
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For a longer essay of this essential series, with many photos from cinema history, read:<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/andor-new-revolution.html" target="_blank">ANDOR, The New Revolution</a>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The twisty fate of Boba Fett after RETURN OF THE JEDI.</i></font><br />
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The entire point of STAR WARS is positive redemption. If <i>‘The Mandalorian’</i> is essentially the Ultimate Boba Fett Story every kid with Kenner figures hoped for, then the actual Fett show dares to do what they hadn’t considered. This is as gutsy as it is spiritually consistent. Thoroughly enjoyable, thus. Plus Ahsoka, Luke, and Krrsantan!<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE <font size="2">(Italy, 1965)</font>, A MAN CALLED HORSE <font size="2">(1970)</font>, QUADROPHENIA <font size="2">(1979)</font>, THEEB <font size="2">(Jordan, 2014)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>DOCTOR WHO</b></i></font> Specials<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>3 Specials winding up the run by Jodie Whittaker.</i></font><br />
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The Whittaker cycle liberated this series.<br />
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All the constraints -male, white, limited regenerations, canon, conservative fans- are now shattered with the expansions and inclusiveness brought in by innovative showrunner Chris Chibnell <small>(<i>‘Broadchurch’</i>)</small>.<br />
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The core of the Doctor is fluid change. No other run in the show’s history did more or better in honoring that. So yokels be damned, bring in all possibility. We want the world and we want it now.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>"Orlando"</i> <font size="2">(1928)</font>, by Virginia Woolf</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RUSSIAN DOLL</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Her history is a much bigger puzzle.</i></font><br />
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The first season was headtrip fun in a local tapeloop. The second goes for glory, an international time epic as ambitious as it is poignant. Natasha Lyonne, shuffling like <i>'Columbo'</i> and grousing like Jackie Mason, is multiform.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
GROUNDHOG DAY <font size="2">(1993)</font>, <i>‘Day Break’</i> <font size="2">(2006)</font>, <i>‘Awake</i> <font size="2">(2012)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WESTWORLD</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Futureworld 2.2.</i></font><br />
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This all began with Michael Crichton’s original film WESTWORLD <small>(1973)</small>, and the sequel FUTUREWORLD <small>(1976)</small>.<br />
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The TV series rethought the first film in its first two seasons, and then the second in its next two. Across Season 3 and 4, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan remade/remodeled it into Gibson and Wachowski cyberpunk, challenging our perceptions of life, sentience, otherness, and destiny. And of the series itself. Thank you.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SEVERANCE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can you really separate your work life from your real life?</i></font><br />
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Perhaps recent years have you suspecting that Capitalism is slavery.<br />
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A devious SpecFic, like <i>‘The Office’</i> overwritten by <i>‘Black Mirror’</i>, where your work self and life self have no memory of each other. That’s a bad thing handled brilliantly here in an edge comedy brimming with dry surrealism, copious social satire, Kubrick-esque cinematography, and moments of unexpected tenderness. The sly cast includes canny turns by John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Homecoming’</i> <font size="2">(2018-’20)</font>, <i>’Made For Love’</i> <font size="2">(2021-’22)</font></small><br />
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<center>_____ F A N T A S Y _____</center><br />
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<font color="#FFFFFF">✭✭✭✭✭</font> The pinnacle.<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A new prequel about the original rise of Sauron.</i></font><br />
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The excellence of the LORD OF THE RINGS television series is on a new level so high that everything else is just a school play. Everything.<br />
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No other show or film can match it for its new standard of quality craft. It is an IMAX masterpiece on a medium far too small for it. It equals Jackson’s films and betters them, in scope and design and inclusion. And it does the most impossible task of all, crafting a rousing new story narrative from Tolkien’s academic addendums that perfectly complements his acclaimed books while liberating new possibilities.<br />
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The trolls lose and the world wins.<br />
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For a longer review of this excellent series, read:<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/02/lord-of-rings-rings-of-power-one-rules.html" target="_blank">LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings Of Power ⬤ The One Rules All</a><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING <font size="2">(2001)</font>, THE TWO TOWERS <font size="2">(2002)</font>, THE RETURN OF THE KING <font size="2">(2003)</font>;<br />
also, TOLKIEN <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>HIS DARK MATERIALS</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The finale of the trilogy.</i></font><br />
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HBO has adapted Pullman’s Fantasy book trilogy in three seasons. The finale, whether from the third book’s tone or the pandemic delays, is a notably somber stroll. The ‘dead’ world is a cheerless slog compared to the delightful ‘eden’ world, which is naturally the point.<br />
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This season’s strength is in how it maturely defies Fantasy codes; not everything works out perfectly, and there’s loss for every hard-won gain. And it’s an inverse rebuke to Lewis’ faith-based <i>“Narnia”</i> books; underling the series is one of the strongest refutations of fundamentalist religion ever aired, in favor of embracing a full life without repression.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
LABYRINTH <font size="2">(1986)</font>, SPIRITED AWAY <font size="2">(Japan, 2001)</font>, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE <font size="2">(2005)</font>, del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH <font size="2">(2006)</font></small><br />
<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”</i> <font size="2">(1865)</font>, by Lewis Carroll</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STRANGER THINGS</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Where did Eleven come from, and where will that lead her?</i></font><br />
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The first three seasons were just prelude. The Duffer Brothers mature up and go big: 72-minute episodes, character beats for the full cast, huge cinematic vistas, global breadth, and a palpable maturity. By exploring Eleven’s origin, they open it all up for the entire ensemble. Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink shine this year.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ALTERED STATES <font size="2">(1981)</font>, SCANNERS <font size="2">(Canada, 1981)</font><br />
<font color="008ae6">Also play:</font><br />
<i>“Dungeons And Dragons”</i> RPG; air guitar</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>OUTLANDER</b></i></font> 6<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Will their new colony come apart from within?</i></font><br />
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My favorite screen romance continues its winning streak, turning romance novel conventions inside out with historical savvy and bracing shifts.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An update on Anne Rice’s classic book.</i></font><br />
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The flaw in the 1976 book was that the 18th Century lead starts as a plantation owner. There’s no way to spin that now with all the toxic negatives entailed. This series wisely resituates Louis as a 1910s New Orleans African-American, a richly contextual decision that improves upon the original while amplifying it with new dimensions and extended span.<br />
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The other smart move, in the wake of the recent <i>‘American Gods’</i> fiasco, is their plan to directly adapt the book in two seasons and stop. Jacob Anderson <small>(‘Game Of Thrones’)</small> reveals his range as Louis, and Sam Reid was born to play the legendary Lestat.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
<i>“Fevre Dream”</i> <font size="2">(1982)</font>, by George R.R. Martin</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>KINDRED</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An update on Octavia Butler’s classic book.</i></font><br />
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Taking its cue from the <i>‘Handmaid’s Tale’</i> TV series, this adaption lateralizes the story outward with new material. This might irk purists, but the core story remains and the additions bring fuller possibilities.<br />
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Butler’s book, taught in colleges, is a damning indictment of slavery, and a wake-up call for inclusive fantasy that helped pave AfroFuturism. It raised many ramifications that this strong series does quite well expanding upon. Mallori Johnson is riveting as the young 2016 woman (instead of 1976) who, by some ancestral connection, keeps being pulled back to a hellish 1815 plantation.<br />
<small>(Also, props to the serious musichead choosing the soundtrack songs.)</small><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Outlander’</i> <font size="2">(2014-)</font>, <i>‘The Underground Railroad’</i> <font size="2">(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Prodigy</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To boldly go like you've never been there before.</i></font><br />
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This trojan horse, pitched as an entry show into <i>'Trek'</i> for young viewers, is sneaking in a whole lot more: STAR WARS energy, youthful shenanigans, refreshed outlook, an edgy arc with intense villains, a sequel to <i>'Star Trek: Voyager'</i>, and some of the most forward redesigns in TREK history. Anyone skipping the trip has missed the wildest ride.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Lower Decks</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>To boldly explode everything that’s gone before.</i></font><br />
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Siblings knock each other because they love each other. This comedy show spoofs everything that ever happened in <i>‘Star Trek’</i> -and things that should- because it’s a family affair. But anyone tuning in will enjoy the fun, fan or not.<br />
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(The key to doing humor on <i>‘Trek’</i> is smart absurdism, a la Douglas Adams, something that the frat yuks on <i>‘The Orville’</i> haven’t grasped.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR WARS: Tales Of The Jedi</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An animated anthology leading into the Prequel Trilogy.</i></font><br />
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Two arcs, one following the path of Ahsoka from her birth to Coruscant, the other revealing the corruption of Count Dooku by Sidious. Special shout-out to the animators for designing the younger Count after Christopher Lee in DRACULA <small>(1958)</small>!<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>UNDONE</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can Alma save her family, in time?</i></font><br />
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Television’s most trippy adult animated show returns, moving from the father’s limbo to the mother’s secret history. It pulls the family together and makes the series even stronger. The genuinely moving character story spans from rural Mexico to Nazi-occupied Poland, and saves the cosmic blowout for last.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A WAKING LIFE <font size="2">(2001)</font>, INCEPTION <font size="2">(2010)</font>, <i>’Russian Doll’</i> Season 2 <font size="2">(2022)</font></small>
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MOON KNIGHT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The unstable champion of a dubious Egyptian god.</i></font><br />
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Moon Knight was one of Marvel Comics' ersatz Batmans, but more supernatural and schizoid. Taking cues from wise retcons in the comics, this series magnifies the Egyptian cultural dimensions while being sensitive to his apparent mental illness. Oscar Isaac, renowned for playing edge or jest well, has a field day navigating his characters.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MS. MARVEL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>New Jersey’s finest hero, by way of Pakistan.</i></font><br />
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Cool as SPIDER-VERSE! Woke as BLACK PANTHER! Bright as CAPTAIN MARVEL! It's... Ms. Marvel!<br />
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This is the hippest, happiest, heartfelt show on TV. It does everything at once and exactly right.<br />
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It’s as current as sockets on teen life, tech, and style; it’s a family show more layered than a rug store; it’s as funny as saying monkey in every sentence; it’s as wise as the wherefores; it’s got It and that’s that.<br />
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And it rivals BLACK PANTHER and SHANG CHI for inclusive cultural panorama. Spidey’s over in Queens, but has never had the range and realness of Jersey here, let alone its Pakistani diaspora. And then they go full-gamut dealing with The Partition of India in 1947 (!) like the ghost of David Lean. There’s nothing on the air that can compare.<br />
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Iman Vellani is a force for joy as Kamala Khan, the Ms. with the biz. Plus, the Illumin-Aunties, tube vids, comic convention, wedding gala highstepping, positive Islam, school heist, cartoon schemes, more. Marvelous.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SPIDER-MAN: Into The Spider-Verse <font size="2">(2018)</font>, <i>‘Doctor Who’</i>, “Demons Of The Punjab” <font size="2">(S11/E06, 2018)</font>, CAPTAIN MARVEL <font size="2">(2019)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHE-HULK: Attorney At Law</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Jennifer smash fourth wall!</i></font><br />
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In her second comic book series <small>(1989)</small>, Jenn’ spoke directly to the reader -before Deadpool- taunting fanboys, sexism, and comics cliches.<br />
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We’re all tired of Online trolls with their scared harassment of female heroes. Before they could even start, this TV show roasts them like lava. Metatextual with a megaphone, Jenn’s whipsmart wit prosecutes sexist brats, toxic cyber-bullies, yuppie bros, blithering tabloid media, anti-creativity press hacks, and the consumer machine. It even goofs happily on the MCU itself. Tatiana Maslaney <small>(<i>‘Orphan Black’</i>)</small> is puckishly hilarious in a satire leaps ahead of rote network comedies.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WEREWOLF BY NIGHT</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>What horror awaits the monster-hunters in the labyrinth?</i></font><br />
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Mark Giacchino, acclaimed for his film scores, directs this black and white Special homaging 1930s Universal horror films, all expressionist lighting and tense suspense (instead of today’s gory sadism).<br />
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After Congress conservatives murdered EC Comics in 1954<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america-david-hajdu/10092241?"target=_blank>></a>, horror series were banned in comics for two decades. But the Marvel supernatural heroes of the ‘70s are now reaching the screen, such as Blade and Morbius and the two-for-one here.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME <font size="2">(1932)</font>, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN <font size="2">(1935)</font>, THE WOLF MAN <font size="2">(1941)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE SANDMAN</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece translated to the screen.</i></font><br />
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The Holy Grail of comics, done precisely right and bettered.<br />
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Writer Alan Moore <small>(<i>“Watchmen”</i>, <i>“V For Vendetta”</i>, <i>“From Hell”</i>)</small> was the core of the ‘80s Comics Renaissance, when literate graphics bridged the comic stores to the book stores. His compatriot Neil Gaiman carried the torch into the ’90s, primarily through his 75-issue run of the mature comic <i>“The Sandman”</i> <small>(1989-’96)</small>. Where Moore was the macro, Neil was the micro, writing chameleonic short stories that stealthily built up into epics.<br />
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Straights don’t know this, but every hip reader from the ’90s up does. The character Morpheus, and his sister Death, are legendary in circles from Goth to Grunge, Cosplay to Comic-Con. The collected graphic novels are bestsellers and shelf staples.<br />
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<center><small>"The Sandman: Overture" (2015),<br />
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The intense pressure to adapt it to the screen properly has overwhelmed every attempt. Ironically, it was another show’s cautionary tale that ensured it. The TV adaptation of Gaiman’s <i>“American Gods”</i> novel had a brilliant first season, but the showrunner was foolishly fired over budget, and the series then spun its wheels till it dug its own grave, canceled without finishing. Meanwhile, the adaption of Gaiman’s <i>“Good Omens”</i> went over very well. The lesson was… do the material exactly and let Neil have total control of it.<br />
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Now we have the best done better. Exactly correctly, the new <i>'Sandman'</i> TV series helmed by Gaiman adapts each issue in sequence, covering the first 17 issues in 11 episodes faithfully. The only changes are improvements, such as the wise move of inclusive casting. And what a cast: Tom Sturridge as Dream, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, and Jenna Coleman as the flip on John Constantine. Plus easter eggs with more subtext than entire rival series. It’s perfect.<br />
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While amiable usurpers like <i>‘His Dark Materials’</i>, <i>‘Cabinet Of Curiosities’</i>, and <i>‘Stranger Things’</i> may get all the attention, this is better and always has been. Straights may sleep on it, but the rest of us are wide awake.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
MIRRORMASK <font size="2">(2005)</font>, CORALINE <font size="2">(2009)</font>, <i>‘American Gods’</i>, Season One only <font size="2">(2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PAPER GIRLS</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>4 newspaper delivery teens from 1988 are thrown together in a ricochet through time.</i></font><br />
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The indie series <i>‘Paper Girls’</i> <small>(2015-’19)</small> is one of the best comics of the century.<br />
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Writer Brian K. Vaughan <small>(<i>‘Lost’</i>)</small>, artist Cliff Chiang, and colorist Matt Wilson crafted a complete novel across 30 issues. Its familiar suburban setting, clean graphics, and bold color slid the reader into an unguessable story unfolding on a monumental scale.<br />
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This screen adaption is damned impressive. It directly clones the initial issues with eerie perfection, from the girls’ casting and attitudes, to the contrasty night scenes, to the bold color washes across scenes. In the second half, it expands with new material about their future selves.<br />
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It got only one season before cancellation but it’s worth the trip anyway. Then <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/paper-girls-the-complete-story-brian-k-vaughan/16945554"target=_blank>read the entire, finished story</a>.<br />
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<center><small>"Paper Girls: The Complete Story" (2021)</small></center><br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">Also read:</font><br />
Vaughan and Staples’ <i>’Saga’</i> <font size="2">(2012-)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The motley group meets their match… their replacements.</i></font><br />
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Starting out as ‘<i>Watchmen</i> meets <i>Doom Patrol</i>’, this show has evolved into something more uniquely itself. A heady cocktail of action, slapstick, doomsday, time trickery, sibling survivor-y, and cascades of surrealism.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Holiday Special</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Christmas, in spaaaaaaaaace!</i></font><br />
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Everyone was disappointed by <i>‘The STAR WARS Holiday Special’</i> <small>(1978)</small>, except for its Boba Fett cartoon. This deliberately makes up for it. Hijinks with Kevin Bacon ensue. And Mantis (Pom Klementieff) again proves she’s the funniest Guardian of all.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RAISING DION</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The second and final season.</i></font><br />
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With greater ambition comes some shagginess. This amiable show about a Mom raising a powered son is a fun all-ages romp, usually best with its plentiful heart moments. They should have got three seasons, but the two are a cool ride.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL</b></i></font> 4<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The (other) sharpest comedian in 1960 has to reset her life.</i></font><br />
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Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein are the best comedy duo on television, again.<br />
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Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino’s <small>(<i>‘The Gilmore Girls’</i>)</small> mantra seems to be, “Why do something good when you can do it double-excellent and elaborately?” It’s as if a Joan Rivers stand-up routine tumbled into a Gene Kelly musical. Take the first episode, “Rumble On The Wonder Wheel”, where -after a complicated one-take tour through an amusement park- the cast has a madcap public spat rotating in different ferris wheel cars.<br />
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And then there’s the burlesque extravaganzas, an FBI shakedown, a Bar Mitzvah inquisition, a stand-up death duel, the matchmaker mafia, and Lenny Bruce at the actual frickin’ Carnegie Hall. This show is the standard.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS <font size="2">(1951)</font>, MY FAVORITE YEAR <font size="2">(1982)</font></small><br />
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<center><small>A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN;<br />
RESERVATION DOGS;<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>With the men away in WWII, women took hold of the baseball fields.</i></font><br />
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The most haunting part of the classic 1992 comedy film was the road not taken; the brief scene when an African-American pitcher has to walk away from a team she can’t join. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League <small>(1943-’54)</small> never integrated, despite the male majors doing so from 1947.<br />
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This excellent dramedy makes up for it. Co-creator and star Abbi Jacobson (<i>‘Broad City’</i>) brings in real history, exploring the lesbian empowerment within her team, while telling the parallel story of a female pitcher aiming for the Negro Leagues. The twin-killing play gives vital new meaning to the title. Abbi and D’Arcy Carden (<i>‘The Good Place’</i>) are great, and the pitcher Chanté Adams and her bestie Gbemisola Ikumelo are priceless.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RESERVATION DOGS</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>4 teen friends on an Oklahoma reservation try to get beyond it.</i></font><br />
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This show’s worldbuilding has become so faceted that spin-offs for characters should be fast-tracked; i.e., the hard-partying Aunties; the Rap brothers on their banana bikes; the enigmatic Deer Lady. Showrunner Sterlin Harjo and his comedy collective friends are creating magic here.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How do you investigate a murder while you are the suspects?</i></font><br />
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On the case, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez find everyone on their case. This fine season is bigger, twistier, and more meta.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GIRLS5EVA</b></i></font> 2<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The reunited girl group struggles to make their comeback album.</i></font><br />
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The really funny aspect of this riotous send-up of the slick and ageist Pop industry is how the group and the songs are actually so much better than the real stuff. And MVP Renée Elise Goldsberry (also on <i>‘She-Hulk’</i>) is the gold standard, folks. So what are you waiting 5?<br />
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(Moving from the hidden Peacock network to Netflix next season can only help this gem’s profile.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ABBOTT ELEMENTARY</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An idealistic teacher starts at a challenging Philadelphia school.</i></font><br />
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Creator and star Quinta Brunson refreshes the mockumentary style with pluck, bite, and sass. She’s adorable, Lisa Ann Walter is tough, and Sheryl Lee Ralph is dignity.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CHRISTMAS CAROLE</b></i></font> (England)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can the miser redeem her mistakes before it’s too late?</i></font><br />
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A 70-minute Holiday special, reinterpreting <i>“A Christmas Carol”</i>. The modern corporate exec thinks she knows the 3-Spirits schtick inside out (like you), but this scriptflip boomarangs around wild with metatext and mash-ups. Suranne Jones <small>(<i>'Gentleman Jack'</i>)</small> is drolly perfect as the distaff Scrooge.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE <font size="2">(1946)</font>, SCROOGE <font size="2">(England, 1951)</font>, SCROOGED <font size="2">(1988)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WEDNESDAY</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Wednesday Addams is in the crosshairs of a mystery at her new monster school.</i></font><br />
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Very akin to the CW network formula style, this spin-off of <i>‘The Addams Family’</i> (from the creators of <i>’Smallville’</i>) is generally good with breakout moments: its beguiling star, Jenna Ortega; her instantly iconic dance at the prom; and the comedy gold that electrifies the show when a certain relative shows up toward the end.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>’The Addams Family’</i> <font size="2">(1964-’66)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MURDERVILLE</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Celebrity guests get the shakedown in an ad-libbed cop mystery show.</i></font><br />
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<i>‘Arrested Development‘</i> was known for its cast’s spry ad-libs. Will Arnett throws his friends into an improvised mystery each episode, chucking havoc to trip them up. Kumail Nanjiani acquits himself pretty deftly.<br />
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Classic Films are the timeless canon from which all movies expand. They are essential to be seen, and should be enjoyed at their best.<br />
Here are some of the important film restorations of the past year.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI</b></i> </font><small>(Germany, 1920)</small> ⇧<br />
Robert Wiene • 4k <i>(Masters Of Cinema)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>CASABLANCA</b></i></font> <small>(1942)</small> ⇧<br />
Michael Curtiz • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>SHADOW OF A DOUBT</b></i></font> <small>(1943)</small><br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>DOUBLE INDEMNITY</b></i></font> <small>(1944)</small><br />
Billy Wilder • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN</b></i></font> <small>(1952)</small> ⇧<br />
Gene Kelly + Stanley Donen • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>PATHS OF GLORY</b></i></font> <small>(1957)</small><br />
Stanley Kubrick • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE TRIAL</b></i></font> <small>(1962)</small><br />
Orson Welles • 4k <i>(Studio Canal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>LAWRENCE OF ARABIA</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1962)</small> ⇧<br />
David Lean • 4k <i>(Sony Pictures)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD</b></i></font> <small>(1962)</small><br />
Robert Mulligan • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>A HARD DAY’S NIGHT</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1964)</small> ⇧<br />
Richard Lester • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE</b></i></font> <small>(Italy, 1965)</small><br />
Sergio Leone • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT</b></i></font> <small>(1967)</small><br />
Norman Jewison • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”</b></i></font><br />
<small>(TV, 1970)</small><br />
Arthur Rankin/Jules Bass • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>SHAFT</b></i></font> <small>(1971)</small> ⇧<br />
Gordon Parks • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE GODFATHER</b></i></font> <small>(1972)</small><br />
Francis Ford Coppola • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE GODFATHER II</b></i></font> <small>(1974)</small> ⇧<br />
Francis Ford Coppola • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>COOLEY HIGH</b></i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
Michael Schultz • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>CARRIE</b></i></font> <small>(1976)</small> ⇧<br />
Brian De Palma • <i>(Shout Factory)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE LAST WALTZ</b></i></font> <small>(1978)</small><br />
Martin Scorsese • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK</b></i></font> <small>(1981)</small><br />
Steven Spielberg • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>STAR TREK II: The Wrath Of Khan</b></i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Nicholas Meyer • 4k <i>(Paramount)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>POLTERGEIST</b></i></font> <small>(1982)</small><br />
Tobe Hooper • 4k <i>(Warner Bros.)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE</b></i></font> <small>(England, 1983)</small> ⇧<br />
Terry Jones • 4k <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>WINGS OF DESIRE</b></i></font> <small>(Germany, 1987)</small><br />
Wim Wenders • 4k <i>(Curzon)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE LOVER</b></i></font> <small>(France/Vietnam, 1992)</small> ⇧<br />
Jean-Jacques Annaud • 4k <i>(MPI Media Group)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE</b></i></font> <small>(China, 2000)</small> ⇧<br />
Wong Kar-wai • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>The INFERNAL AFFAIRS Trilogy</b></i></font><br />
<small>(Hong Kong, 2002, 2003)</small><br />
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung + Alan Mak • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>WALL-E</b></i></font> <small>(2008)</small><br />
Andrew Stanton • 4k <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>CORALINE</b></i></font> <small>(2009)</small> ⇧<br />
Henry Selick • 4k <i>(Shout Factory)</i><br />
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<a name="C5"></a><font color="ffffff"><center><h1><b>C R I T E R I O N</b></h1></center></font><br />
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<center><small><i>PEPE LE MOKO</i>; <i>IVAN THE TERRIBLE</i>;<br />
<i>THE THIRD MAN</i>; <i>RASHOMON</i>;<br />
<i>ON THE WATERFRONT</i>; <i>THE CRANES ARE FLYING</i></small></center><br />
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Netflix is like the flashy dance club of streaming entertainment, but <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/"target=_blank>The Criterion Channel</a> is for the deep cuts of real culture.<br />
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It needs to be said. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu impress with their glossy New Now, and they do have many current gems, but they completely lack heritage classics. All width and no depth. That's all fun, but how long can you chew gum for supper? At some point, when you crave for a more well-rounded diet of substance that sustains your mind and soul, there's only one place to get serious about learning full-quality cinema... The Canon Of Great Films That Actually Matter.<br />
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<center><small><i>A RAISIN IN THE SUN</i>; <i>CLEO FROM 5 TO 7</i>;<br />
<i>MONTEREY POP</i>; <i>JEANNE DIELMAN</i>;<br />
<i>THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH</i>;<br />
<i>IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES</i></small></center><br />
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While other streaming sites are High School, <b>The Criterion Channel</b> is Oxford.<br />
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<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/" target="_blank">The Criterion Channel</a> film-streaming site is the best cinema from around the world and every decade since film began, along with new indie films and acclaimed documentaries. Plus, Criterion is the vanguard in restoring great films to a precision standard of picture and sound that matches the present. Restored classics now look better than the day they were struck. If you've watched Mark Cousins' <i>"The Story of Film: An Odyssey"</i> documentary series as a primer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey"target=_blank>></a>, this site is the true library to expand your enjoyment into the most essential film classics. Every fine film we appreciate now branches directly from the roots of these timeless works of cinematic art, whether it's a romance, period piece, character drama, guerilla handheld, Rock film, style fest, rebel indie, or avant garde. Get the whole picture.<br />
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Later for sugar, next for substance. Subscribe today.<br />
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<center><small><i>TIME BANDITS</i>; <i>MYSTERY TRAIN</i>;<br />
<i>TWIN PEAKS: Fire Walk With Me</i>;<br />
<i>HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH</i>;<br />
<i>PARIAH</i>; <i>BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR</i></small></center><br />
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<small>(also explore: <a href="https://www.fandor.com/"target=_blank>Fandor</a>, <a href="https://filmatique.com/"target=_blank>Filmatique</a>, <a href="https://mubi.com/"target=_blank>Mubi</a>, <a href="https://www.tcm.com/"target=_blank>Turner Classic Movies</a>, <a href="https://www.kanopy.com/"target=_blank>Kanopy</a>, <a href="https://filmhub.com/"target=_blank>Filmhub</a>, <a href="http://www.indiepixunlimited.com/"target=_blank>IndiePix</a>, <a href="https://www.indieflix.com/"target=_blank>IndieFlix</a>, <a href="https://www.ovid.tv/"target=_blank>Ovid</a>, <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/"target=_blank>BFI Player</a> (UK), <a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline"target=_blank>OpenCulture</a>)</small><br />
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Make a better future.</center><br />
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<center>Count your blessings,<br />
every year.</center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>:<br />
Rock'n'Soul Playlist,<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
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A history of NEW YEARS songs from the 1950s to today, in chronological order.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="00cc00">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf">Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="00cc00">Blues!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff9900">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="#ff6600">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="#ff9900">Country!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#cc66ff">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="#9933ff">Psychedelic!</font> <font COLOR="#cc66ff">Funk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ccff66">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="#ffff66">Reggae!</font> <font COLOR="#ccff66">Punk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff66cc">New Wave!</font> <font COLOR="#ff3399">HipHop!</font> <font COLOR="#ff66cc">Electro!</font></b><br />
and more!</center><br />
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© <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com"target=_blank>Tym Stevens</a><br />
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See Also:<br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/10/halloween-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HALLOWEEN!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
<br />
• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/dia-de-los-muertos-rock-music-player.html”target=_blank>DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A Rock Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/thanksgiving-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>THANKSGIVING!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-holidays-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html”target=_blank>The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-91875375369837097262022-03-03T00:33:00.014-08:002023-02-10T17:04:11.370-08:00NO TIME TO DIE: How James Bond Advanced Beyond<br />
<font size="4"><center>The most radical <font color="cc0000"><b>James Bond</b></font> run<br />
has reached its fearless conclusion.</center></font><br />
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Chapter links:<br />
<font size="4"><font color="cc0000">•</font></font> <a href="#C1">What James Bond Was.</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C2">What James Bond Might Be.</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="cc0000">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">What James Bond Needed To Become.</a><br />
<font size="4"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <a href="#C4">Where Does James Bond Go After This?</a><br />
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<center><small>(This article speaks generally about all Bond<br />
films, without any specific spoilers.)</small></center>
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What if the revolution happened in front of you, but you failed to recognize it?<br />
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<center><b><font size="7"><font color="cc0000">1</font></font></b><br />
<b><font size="5"><font color="ffffff"><i>What JAMES BOND Was.</i></font></font></b></center><br />
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<center><small>Fleming's ideal of Bond, Hoagy Carmichael;<br />
<i>"Casino Royale"</i> (Swedish edition)</small></center><br />
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Beginning in the 1950s, Ian Fleming’s <i>James Bond</i> books featured a hardboiled government assassin drowning his emptiness in wine and women. The Cold War man, cool demeanor, icy heart.<br />
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<center><small>Cary Grant, TO CATCH A THIEF (1955);<br />
<i>Playboy</i> publisher Hugh Hefner</small></center><br />
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The 1960s films, influenced by the impossibly suave Cary Grant in TO CATCH A THIEF <small>(1955)</small>, streamlined him as a Hefner fantasy stud, macking and mocking as he fought spectral villains in Mod futurist lairs. His charm seduced, his expertise triumphed. The impact was so seismic in the mainstream that Bond-mania dominated all pop culture in the ’60s, from screen<small><a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/11/the-prisoner-its-influence-on-music-tv.html" target="_blank">></a></small> to music<small><a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-barry-mr-kiss-kiss-bang-bang.html" target="_blank">></a></small> to comics<small><a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/09/rock-sex-jim-steranko-agent-of-style.html" target="_blank">></a></small>.<br />
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The Bond formulas became like cultural codexes imprinted into our collective consciousness, omnipresent and almost immutable. He was always perfect, he was always single, he would always escape in the end.<br />
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<center><small>DR. NO; THUNDERBALL;<br />
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE poster</small></center><br />
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Under all the pulp exploits and cool style we enjoyed lay a lot of macho flaws that didn’t weather well across the franchise’s passing decades (or feminism): elite man, sexy girls, gunkill, flip quips, nationalism, warfare, bed tucking. (Think about how many other franchises that formula has inbred, from Matt Helm to <small>THE KINGSMAN</small>.)<br />
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While the enemy storyline of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. loosely threaded the ‘60s films, there was no character growth, no emotional turnover, no commitment for the man himself. Each contained adventure became a vogue of male conquest without any self-awareness for inner evolution. Unmussed, detached, invulnerable. It’s the subliminal undertow that reminds you that this is all a fantasy instead of realistic. (Contrast this against the gritty and downtempo counter-films about agent Harry Palmer, played by everybloke Michael Caine.)<br />
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To avoid being a shell, a statue, or a parody of himself, James Bond needed a radical fix that liberated him from stasis.<br />
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<center><small>Diana Rigg and George Lazenby,<br />
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font size="7"><font color="cc0000">2</font></font></b><br />
<b><font size="5"><font color="ffffff"><i>What JAMES BOND Might Be.</i></font></font></b></center><br />
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<center><small>Diana Rigg and George Lazenby</small></center><br />
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There was a moment they tried to fix this. After Sean Connery left his breakthrough role, the producers made the bold experiment <font color="cc0000">ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE</font> <small>(1969)</small> with a new lead, which tried humanizing Bond as an agent, a person, a lover. It reached a shocking conclusion that no one saw coming. And, expecting the formula they’d become accustomed to, not enough patrons came to see it. Retreating from the promise of change, the franchise then reverted back into cycles of formula ever more stylish and less risky (Connery’s brief return; Moore’s ‘70s films). Bond had become a posture on a poster, interchangeable but invariable.<br />
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There are essentially two Bond films: Spy and Spectacle. Across the years, the franchise sways between the two.<br />
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<center><small>FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE;<br />
GOLDFINGER; THUNDERBALL;<br />
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE</small></center><br />
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After the initial light adventure of <font color="cc0000">DR. NO</font> <small>(1962)</small>, the Bond films defined themselves with the serious Cold War spy film, <font color="cc0000">FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE</font> <small>(1963)</small>: all practical stunts and political intrigue, noir tone and sober suspicion. <b>Spy</b>. With the next film, <font color="cc0000">GOLDFINGER</font> <small>(1964)</small>, they redefined themselves by going more spectacular: pulp adventure, sci-fi devices, theatrical villain, giant lair set, huge finale. <b>Spectacle</b>. Then the hybrid comes in, <font color="cc0000">THUNDERBALL</font> <small>(1965)</small>. Then the ultra-Spectacle of <font color="cc0000">YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE</font> (1967), which went so far so well they didn’t know how to top it, only to repeat it in variations later.<br />
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The Moore films of the ‘70s essentially remade this same arc, getting more stylish and less serious as they went. (All fine fun, by the way, to be fair.) But after <font color="cc0000">THE SPY WHO LOVED ME</font> <small>(1977)</small> remade YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE underwater, and <font color="cc0000">MOONRAKER</font> <small>(1979)</small> remade both in outer space, the cycle had played out. Stylism and trend-chasing had eaten itself and it was time to start over.<br />
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<center><small>FOR YOUR EYES ONLY;<br />
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS</small></center><br />
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Fully in the spirit of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, the reset movie <font color="cc0000">FOR YOUR EYES ONLY</font> <small>(1981)</small> began a stealth change in Bond conventions: more realistic and less fantastic, more stunts and less effects, more flirty and less sexist. This continued with the underrated <font color="cc0000">OCTOPUSSY</font> <small>(1983)</small> and the first half of the wonky <font color="cc0000">A VIEW TO A KILL</font> <small>(1985)</small>. From this decade on, the Bond franchise is trying to streamline Spy and Spectacle into one, now becoming taut intrigue thrillers with spectacular practical stunts and locations. It’s like sobriety after a long bacchanal.<br />
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Still the suave agent icon we'd come to expect, he will become tougher and more shrewd as the years continue. The intense Dalton’s takeover in <font color="cc0000">THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS</font> <small>(1987)</small> gave the franchise a chance to do a smoother variant of MAJESTY’S, flexing change again. <small>(Note the unusual turn at the end. But also how continuity never followed up on it.)</small> Maybe the truest seed of things to come is the brutality of Dalton’s performance in <font color="cc0000">LICENSE TO KILL</font> <small>(1989)</small>, where he has the smooth veneer of Moore but the flinty edge always underlying Connery. This synthesis of manner and actions ushers in Brosnan, who will arc from the practical Spy of <font color="cc0000">GOLDENEYE</font> <small>(1995)</small> to the hybrid Spectacle of <font color="cc0000">DIE ANOTHER DAY</font> <small>(2002)</small>. Suave while steely.<br />
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To go forward, Bond had to be more real for us to relate to him anymore.<br />
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<center><small>Eva Green and Daniel Craig,<br />
CASINO ROYALE</small></center><br />
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<b><font size="5"><font color="ffffff"><i>What JAMES BOND<br />
Needed To Become.</i></font></font></b></center><br />
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<center><small>Lee Marvin, POINT BLANK (1967);<br />
Steve McQueen, BULLITT (1968)</small></center><br />
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During one of the Bond franchise’s periodic hiatuses, THE BOURNE IDENTITY <small>(2002)</small> stole their car and put a kit on it, stripping the Bond archetype down to a robotic rogue agent doing astounding physical stunts which seemed real. <small>[re: Hong Kong action flicks]</small> Meanwhile, the current producers had finally reeled in the rights to the first Bond book, <i>"Casino Royale"</i> <small>(1953)</small>, and made the brazen choice to discard all formula and start over.<br />
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If Connery/Lazenby/Moore/Dalton/Brosnan had each reflected Cary Grant, all charm and coif at embassy receptions, the new archetype was instead in the mode of Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen, all tough pug and coiled rage from street brawls. Enter Daniel Craig.<br />
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<center><small>"Bond. James Bond."</small></center><br />
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BOURNE had raised the heat and the Bond creators responded with the flamewar of <font color="cc0000"><b>CASINO ROYALE</b></font> <small>(2006)</small>, a comprehensive beatdown from which the usurper never recovered: the stunts were better, the vision inspired, the story eternal. James Bond was rejuvenated in ways we had never seen or (most importantly) felt before. The film’s excellence is so universally hailed that it has become a standalone classic beyond the franchise itself.<br />
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To a fault, the love for the film is so fervent that it is held unfairly against its follow-ups, often obscuring their own merits or awareness of the progressing story they are telling. Looking closer, it was the beginning of a James Bond <b>origin arc</b> that would tell how he came to be the agent we know. Deeper still, it was a complete rewrite and upgrade of the man for the present, replacing the sexism and sleek perfection with vulnerability and rough realism, humanizing him as an agent, a person, a lover. And it reached a shocking conclusion that no one could get over, including him.<br />
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<center><small>Vesper Lind and James Bond</small></center><br />
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The book <i>"Casino Royale"</i> ended on an uncensored statement that sealed Bond as a callous killer going forward, a dead-hearted gunman. The film deconstructs this, making that spoken line ironic as time -and the following film arc- reveals his conflicted soul. It’s the key to the new doorway. Now the blunt thug of the books is a front for a fractured spirit.<br />
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<center><small>QUANTUM OF SOLACE;<br />
SKYFALL;<br />
SPECTRE</small></center><br />
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Rather than a one-off adventure like the past installments, the film began what seemed like a sly ongoing <b>prequel arc</b> to Connery’s ’60s run, sewing the origin seeds for everything that was fully in place in those films, but now told solely in realistic, contemporary terms.<br />
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Watch how the seeds took root: the spy games, the secret enemy organization, the front villain, and the <small>(real world Ken Adam-style)</small> Mod hotel in the wrongly under-valued <font color="cc0000"><b>QUANTUM OF SOLACE</b></font> <small>(2008)</small>; his outcast past, M, and Q in <font color="cc0000"><b>SKYFALL</b></font> <small>(2012)</small>; and reaching familiar fruition with Eve, the proto-crater base, the unstoppable henchman, and the Enemy in <font color="cc0000"><b>SPECTRE</b></font> <small>(2015)</small>. All there now: the gun, the car, the suit, the demeanor, the mistrust, the jokes, the devices, the team, the enemy, paced in piece by piece.<br />
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<center><small>QUANTUM OF SOLACE;<br />
SKYFALL; SPECTRE;<br />
NO TIME TO DIE</small></center><br />
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Look again, at what wasn’t there before in the agent: hurt by any collateral death; comforting Vesper after a trauma; working with Camille and Paloma as a colleague instead of a lover; trolling M yet respecting her, while she scolds him for behaving like a thug; the reveal of his Scottish/French heritage and hard childhood; his absolute disdain for establishment, class, rank, arrogance, rote, slickness, red tape, falsity; saving his civility for working people; helping save the Bolivian poor from the soulless Capitalist; choosing not to kill a villain (directly); using devices, vehicles, credentials like throwaways (but never so regarding loyalty, trust, respect); treating the suit like a costume, and resorting to casual clothing every chance he can; slicing through protocol, manners, borders, buildings like a scythe; his brotherhood with Felix; intimation of wider sexual latitude; his reflexive pride, stealth loyalty, tortured mistrust, aloof loneliness, soft forgiveness; reading heavily in his off-time <small>(including <i>"Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance"</i>)</small>; the arc of his love, from her to them.<br />
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He’s a different guy. There’s been a stealth switch-up underneath. The hardboiled assassin transplanted from the first books now sheaths a wounded soul onscreen. A lover corrupted into a killer, looking for redemption. Daniel Craig’s Bond occupies the same conceptual space as his suave predecessors, but he is the direct counter to them in every way: appearance, motivation, subtlety, complexity, outlook, moves, edge, possibility. Beyond his buff form, always watch his eyes.<br />
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<center><small>DR. NO;<br />
NO TIME TO DIE</small></center><br />
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This is the moment where everything could have gone conventional, a fifth film wrapping the saga up in a crowd-friendly smoothie of the standard Bond we expect him to become. Though seeming to hem itself into the outlines of the vintage Bond, the previous movie <font color="cc0000"><b>SPECTRE</b></font> had instead ended with three things that can’t happen in continuity as we know it. The ominous implication was that the creators would have to wipe all that away to go back to what’s expected.<br />
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But, with admirable bravery, the producers instead stayed true to the course in the final Craig film. This wasn’t really just a prequel arc harkening the classic Bond. It was <b>a five-chapter story</b>, from beginning to end, of the new Bond beyond. <font color="cc0000"><b>NO TIME TO DIE</b></font> <small>(2021)</small> is the yang to CASINO’s yen, the other bracket, the inevitable endgame. It sews all of the aspects (and foreshadowings) of the previous four chapters into an unparalleled climax completely past the range of any Bond film done before.<br />
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<center><small>George Lazenby and Diana Rigg;<br />
Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux</small></center><br />
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Look at how it now only echoes the past to replace or counter it. If ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE was the fledgling seed for a possible new Bond, then this film is the arboretum of its fruition. Deep fans will note the quiet use of MAJESTY’S music, locations, and inversion of key story beats in NO TIME TO DIE, a metatext for what was being replaced with what will be.<br />
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Note also how it covertly mirrors Connery’s run, if only to reconsider every allusion with other options. Not imitation, but reformation. Just as Connery’s run started with the Jamaican lilt of DR. NO <small>(1962)</small> and climaxed with the spectacular Japanese volcano base of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE <small>(1967)</small>, Craig’s arc went from the Bahamas of CASINO to the pan-Asian waters military island of NO TIME TO DIE, with the unwavering distinction of staying realistically grounded the entire span. NO TIME TO DIE’s finale may have parallels to YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, but only as a realist overwrite. Notice how the fantastic volcano base is replaced by an actual Cold War base, referencing the Connery-era history as an architecture that has been repurposed. The Craig arc has built a new past for Bond with a different future.<br />
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This is the movement where the Bond films had the courage to grow up. Consider everything NO TIME TO DIE does that hasn’t been done before. The elongated opening, the emotional break, the eerie flashbacks, the artful framing, the sober angst, the fatalism, the skewed humor <small>(from co-writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge)</small>, the hope, the complex romance, the kinship ties, the fully proactive women, the anti-villain villain and his score-settling, the personal reveals, Bond's mea culpas, the formula inversions, and the epic length.<br />
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Most crucially, an unprecedented revelation in the heart of the film is the decisive moment that breaks from all formula and hinges everything straight into completely unknown territory. And it all pivots on unconditional love.<br />
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<center><small>CASINO ROYALE;<br />
QUANTUM OF SOLACE;<br />
SKYFALL;<br />
SPECTRE</small></center><br />
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The quiet truth of the Craig arc is that James Bond has been revealed as what he has always been, not a charming libertine, but a hired killer. Bereft of love, embittered by any betrayal of it, he has lived heedless like he has nothing to live for. He's not afraid of death because he is death. And this starts to destroy everyone around him as it steadily catches up with him. Watching the five chapters in sequence, the foreshadowings of this inevitable spiral are everywhere. (Spirals are used to denote death and life throughout NO TIME TO DIE.)<br />
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But what if there was something worth living for? Something more important than yourself? Under the pain, this Bond does care and wants to make a difference. His compassion has come to the fore in the abstract -for country, justice, the world- as well as the implicit -for friends, lovers, mentors. Each loss that leaves him alone deepens a grief that hastens his self-destruction cycle. He seeks redemption through eros, but unconditional love can regenerate in new forms. In NO TIME TO DIE, this revelation comes home to him in a profoundly personal way.<br />
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From that point on, Bond goes fully from paper doll to person, operating off-mission for personal reasons beyond any Bond we known, with motivations and outcomes that change our entire perception of what is now possible in these films. With the Craig arc, we don’t look at Bond anymore, we now fully see and feel him. All of this change culminates in a shocking conclusion that no one can get their head around.<br />
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What if re-evolution happens in front of you, but you lack insight to asses it?<br />
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15 years for an arc is a bit of a span. (More production delays.) When pop culture reviews are now often written by novices with no cultural memory for context, all trivia and no awareness, this thoroughly subversive film gets mistaken at face value as more franchise formula. But it’s been the precise opposite all along for those paying attention to the revolution. Maybe some diehards were threatened, coasters were baffled, latekids shrugged. That’s fine. Go watch the previous 20 films before Craig if you wanted the past to stay fixed. But what was before has now gone beyond.<br />
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<b><font size="5"><font color="ffffff"><i>Where Does JAMES BOND<br />
Go After This?</i></font></font></b></center><br />
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He’s not the same guy. And realizing all Bonds are actually separate liberated the creators to go forward into the future.<br />
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The long-time fan theories were off-base, holding the concept hostage to formula. No, all six actors are not playing the same guy with a single continuity. No, ‘James Bond’ is not a rotating codename shared across successive agents. James Bond is a book character, interpreted like a standard song by different singers. Imagine each actor/era as a parallel earth in a Bond multiverse, each telling its one arc across a select run. Craig is the unique ballad of Earth 6. Yes, James Bond will return with a seventh face, a new person. And, if the creators hold true to what they’ve just accomplished, will be more unbound, human, and believable than ever before. And hopefully do what hasn’t been done but now can.<br />
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Bond beyond.<br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/11/the-prisoner-its-influence-on-music-tv.html" target="_blank">THE PRISONER: Its Influence On Music, TV, and Comics</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/09/rock-sex-jim-steranko-agent-of-style.html" target="_blank">JIM STERANKO, Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.! - His Inspirations and His Influence</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/05/star-wars-is-to-cinema-what-beatles-are.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<font color="#FFFFFF">✭✭✭✭✭</font> Film Of The Year.<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BAD LUCK BANGING Or LOONY PORN</b></i></font> (Romania) ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A woman’s personal life is misused against her by a hypocritical society.</i></font><br />
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An acerbic satire in three acts, unfolding like a casual documentary. Connecting the thread between Covid-deniers and latent Fascism, it mocks the selfish as the social cancer which poisons democracy, progress, and public health.<br />
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It’s also deviously funny, whip smart, and climaxes with brazen verve.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
WEEKEND <font size="2">(France, 1967)</font>, THE FIREMAN’S BALL <font size="2">(Czech, 1967)</font>, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE <font size="2">(France/Spain, 1973)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A true story of how the Black Panthers were infiltrated and terrorized by the FBI.</i></font><br />
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Fred Hampton was the charismatic leader of the late-‘60s Chicago branch of the Black Panther Party. This biopic traces their betrayal by an informant, and exposes to a mainstream audience the relentlessly bigoted and fascistic drive of the FBI, and their puppet cops, to destroy all populist empowerment movements.<br />
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Which makes it a precisely relevant parable for now, as the corrupt heirs to this in today’s precincts and courts and assemblies continue that persecution. Kudos to director Shaka King and star Daniel Kaluuya for bringing this crucial history to life.<br />
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Hell should exist, solely for monsters like Hoover.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO" target="_blank">COINTELPRO</a></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ANNETTE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An unlikely romance and an unworldly wunderkind propel this postmodern musical.</i></font><br />
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The avant-popsters Sparks and director Leos Carax (HOLY MOTORS) homage -while completely deconstructing- Classic Hollywood and musical extravaganzas. A song cycle that lilts like Piaf with a punk heart, impelled by Marion Cotillard and reaching its startling pinnacle in a duet/duel between Adam Driver and young Devon McDowell.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG <font size="2">(France, 1964)</font>, TOMMY <font size="2">(1975)</font>, TRUE STORIES <font size="2">(1986)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PARIS, 13th DISTRICT</b></i></font> <small>(France)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The intersecting lives of three people with commitment issues.</i></font><br />
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This sophisticated dramedy weaves together short stories from Adrian Tomine's graphic novels into one immensely satisfying narrative. Rather than simply reiterate the conventional frictions of a triad (plus), the story is more honest about the fluidity of human connection, and the value of lows to guide us to highs. Noémie Merlant and Makita Samba are great here, while Lucie Zhang and Jehnny Beth own each scene.<br />
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SHORTCOMINGS <font size="2">(2023)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The lust for royal power corrodes a treacherous couple’s souls.</i></font><br />
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Filmed in black and white, with serious debt to Orson Welles, the enduring cautionary tale writhes with a sterling cast led by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, but purloined by the unnerving performance of Kathryn Hunter as the Witches.<br />
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MACBETH <font size="2">(1948)</font>, OTHELLO <font size="2">(1951)</font>, THRONE OF BLOOD <font size="2">(Japan, 1957)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE CARD COUNTER</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The stealthy card shark cruising the casino circuit is haunted by traumatic secrets.</i></font><br />
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Paul Schrader's latest quietly follows a stealth nobody (the typically great Oscar Isaacs) milking from the margins as life catches up with him.<br />
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ATLANTIC CITY <font size="2">(1980)</font>, THE COLOR OF MONEY <font size="2">(1986)</font>, 'Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib' <font size="2">(doc, 2007)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>A HERO</b></i></font> (Iran) ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>On a brief furlough from debtor’s prison, a man does a good deed that makes him an unintended celebrity and target.</i></font><br />
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Asghar Farhadi’s low-key and subtly complex film (Grand Prix winner at Cannes) questions motivations on everyone’s part, from the desperate to the vacillating to the cruel. With quiet ease, it grills bureaucracy, incarceration, social media, greed, and notions of pure intent.<br />
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Kafka’s <i>“The Trial”</i> <font size="2">(1925)</font>, A SEPARATION <font size="2">(Iran, 2011)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PARALLEL MOTHERS</b></i></font> (Spain) ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two pregnant women bond in the hospital, and their lives become intertwined in ways they’d never suspect.</i></font><br />
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Almodovar triumphs with this excellent return. Penelope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit mesmerize in a story that keeps trysting like desire while twisting like a thriller. All this amid a strong bracket of antifascism.<br />
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THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE <font size="2">(Spain, 1973)</font>; VOLVER <font size="2">(Spain, 2006)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE POWER OF THE DOG</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1925, the rift between two rancher brothers becomes dangerous for all involved.</i></font><br />
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Jane Campion inverts Western conventions telling something else. Conflict, romance, abuse, secrets, seduction. Where do all these stray strands lead?<br />
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REBECCA <font size="2">(1940)</font>, THERE WILL BE BLOOD <font size="2">(2007)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD</b></i></font> (Norway) ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>She could have a great life, if she could just figure out what she really wants.</i></font><br />
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This relaxed dramedy flows like real life, following the brilliant while mercurial lead in her journey to herself. By turns funny, odd, amorous, thorny, and then poignant, it logs the soul on the cusp. Renate Reinsve won Best Actress at Cannes, and rightfully so.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WEST SIDE STORY</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Can two lovers cross all the lines of division that force them apart?</i></font><br />
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Robbins, Bernstein, and Sondheim’s 1957 street-opera musical -inspired by <i>“Romeo And Juliet”</i>- became Wise’s essential 1961 film, with its stunning craft and immortal songs.<br />
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This screen version by Steven Spielberg equals the film original, while enhancing it. It rings truer, with tougher edge, truly inclusive casting, and a deeper social context that speaks directly to now. If the original was a warning about social division, this is an indictment for not listening before.* WSS always told more truth than the times could handle and here every box step comes with a body blow. The leads -Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort- are as perfect as destiny, Ariana Debose steals the spotlight off them often as Anita, and Rita Moreno (the original ’61 Anita) swipes it from everyone simply by being.<br />
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See the original, see the new.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
BLACK ORPHEUS <font size="2">(1959)</font>, WEST SIDE STORY <font size="2">(1961)</font>, ROMEO + JULIET <font size="2">(1996)</font>, RENT <font size="2">(2005)</font></small><br />
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✶ <small>Human History spoiler alert: the Elite always play the poor against each other with false divisions while stealing their land for power.<br />
For example, New York City.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>TICK, TICK… BOOM!</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A biopic/musical about Broadway playwright Jonathan Larson, detailing his years of struggle in NYC before the success of ‘Rent’.</i></font><br />
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The directing debut of Lin Manuel-Miranda captures an artist under intense pressure, who has to face his flaws to unlock his strengths. Andrew Garfield is a powerhouse as Larson, and the inventive structure and musical exuberance jolts.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>RESPECT</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A biopic of the almighty Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.</i></font><br />
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Broadway director Liesl Tommy breaks out and star Jennifer Hudson amazes in this loving while honest tribute to an essential artist. Any formulaic moments are offset by a wealth of bracing edge, from the shocking trauma in her childhood to the struggle to be her own person. And (like the records) the scenes in the Muscle Shoals studio are absolute gold.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
RESPECT YOURSELF: The Stax Records Story <font size="2">(doc, 2007)</font>; MUSCLE SHOALS <font size="2">(doc, 2013)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CLIFF WALKERS</b></i></font>, a.k.a., Impasse (China) ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Chinese resistance undermines the Japanese occupation in the early 1930s.</i></font><br />
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Zhang Yimou, restlessly expanding outside of his stylish Wushu epics, unfurls a gripping spy thriller that rivets like a heist.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>NO SUDDEN MOVE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>1954 Detroit crooks recruited for a quick job realize something shadier is going on.</i></font><br />
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Steven Soderbergh unpeels levels of crime, from oppressed poor to suburban middlers to board rooms, on the heels of hoodlums Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE <font size="2">(1973)</font>, ‘Fargo’, Season 4 <font size="2">(2020)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BERGMAN ISLAND</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A filmmaker couple visits Ingmar Bergman’s island locations for inspiration.</i></font><br />
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Is it an interesting postscript to a celluloid legacy by a promising new creator, or a newbie coasting on impressions? Maybe both, still works. Mia Wasikowska has an interesting turn in the film within the film.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Bergman’s SUMMER WITH MONICA <font size="2">(Sweden, 1953</font>), PERSONA <font size="2">(1966)</font>, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE <font size="2">(1973)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PASSING</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Where does your skin give you passage in an arbitrarily ‘black-and-white’ world?</i></font><br />
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Noted actor Rebecca Hall writes and directs this version of the 1929 novel, examining how binary outlooks poison our lives. Tessa Thompson is grace, and the cinematagraphy of Eduard Grau is luminous.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NIGHTMARE ALLEY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A carny hustler swindles his way to his big reward.</i></font><br />
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Guillermo del Toro’s languid and dreamy expansion on the 1946 noir allegory novel is a well-crafted ride, if a bit on-the-nose and overlong.<br />
(I think the 1947 film version is more potent in less time.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>TITANE</b></i></font> (France)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>J.G. Ballard’s “Crash” gets high with HOLY MOTORS and BOYS DON’T CRY.</i></font><br />
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A head-fry with some admirable verve that might shock the impressionable.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NOBODY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The bad guys just messed over the wrong nobody.</i></font><br />
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A black comedy about vengeance casting Bob Odenkirk against type, best when it parodies JOHN WICK with ‘Better Call Saul’ wit, less so when it blows out into Tarantino aggro.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WILD INDIAN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A traumatic event in their youth splits the paths of two Native American men.</i></font><br />
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The three acts feel like short stories, each of which should have become a developed film. Chaske Spencer gives a standout performance.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE FRENCH DISPATCH</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Amazing and absurd chapters in the history of a literate magazine based in Paris.</i></font><br />
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More design, thought, and humor than many films put together, and demanding of repeat viewings. With a spectacular cast, lucid wit, impish lust, and a healthy perversity, Wes Anderson reminds you why films are a forum of all art forms.<br />
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His meticulous dioramas revolve with the precision clockwork of Ware, breezing in light and air like Demy, tweaking on Godard radicalism, politely stinging like Baldwin, burlesquing through silly gauntlets like Tati, all metronomed with the street ballet of Chaplin. Ba-dap-BAP!<br />
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Long live writing, journalism, and cinema!<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
LOVE ME TONIGHT <font size="2">(France, 1932)</font>, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS <font size="2">(1951)</font>, MON ONCLE <font size="2">(France, 1958)</font>, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT <font size="2">(France, 1967)</font>, LA CHINOISE <font size="2">(1967)</font>;<br />
<i>‘New Yorker’</i> magazine</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SHIVA BABY</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>At a Jewish wake gathering, a young woman’s entire messed-up life gets grilled.</i></font><br />
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Rachel Sennott’s knack for making the awkward and uncomfortable stone hilarious is a marvel, and a crack ensemble -including Paula Draper and Fred Melamed as her parents- are so effortlessly great you’d think it’s a documentary.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
ANNIE HALL <font size="2">(1977)</font>, A WEDDING <font size="2">(1978)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PLAN B</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>When she thinks she might be pregnant, the friends’ epic road quest begins.</i></font><br />
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An especially savvy flip on teen films by director Natalie Morales (star of <i>‘The Middleman’</i> cult TV show), zigzagging the ludicrous with the poignant.<br />
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The rollicking chemistry between stars Victoria Moroles and Kuhoo Verma could drive any film to success, hint hint.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>FREE GUY</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Guy is beginning to realize there may be more to life than being a video game cipher.</i></font><br />
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Beyond all the gamer (and superhero) metatext, anyone can easily enjoy this engaging and clever farce, rolling smooth on the droll deadpan of Ryan Reynolds.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE TRUMAN SHOW <font size="2">(1998)</font>, WRECK-IT RALPH <font size="2">(2012)</font>, READY PLAYER ONE <font size="2">(2018)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE PAPER TIGERS</b></i></font> <small>(2020)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Three former martial arts prodigies reunite in middle age to stop a killer.</i></font><br />
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Goofy fun in the Jackie Chan mode.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>NO TIME TO DIE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font color="008ae6"><i>The most radical James Bond run reaches its fearless conclusion.</i></font><br />
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A brilliant film, precisely for all the reasons that haven’t happened before.<br />
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For a more comprehensive view of this singular film, read:<br />
➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/03/no-time-to-die-how-james-bond-advanced.html" target="_blank">NO TIME TO DIE: How James Bond Advanced Beyond</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DUNE</b>: Part One</i> </font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>There is a power struggle on the desert world that could raze the galactic empire.</i></font><br />
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Frank Herbert’s timeless book <i>“Dune”</i> <small>(1965)</small> combined Burrough’s <i>‘John Carter Of Mars’</i> books, the galactic anthropology of Asimov’s <i>“Foundation”</i> series, and the haunted messiah and panoramic sweep of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA <small>(1962)</small>. It helped push sci-fi out of pulp into literature, sifting the electrifying into the Shakespearian.<br />
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In the spirit of the Bard (just as much as Coen’s <small>MACBETH</small> above), director Denis Villeneuve <small>(ARRIVAL, BLADE RUNNER 2049)</small> strips the saga down to its political moves and canny language, dressing it in brutalist architecture and atmospheric panoramas lensed like graphic art. This balance of soliloquy and spectacular creates a dynamic tension that feels and looks like nothing else out there. Arise, Arrakis.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Heinlein’s <i>“Stranger In A Strange Land”</i> <font size="2">(1961)</font>, Fellini SATYRICON <font size="2">(1969)</font>, Lynch’s DUNE <font size="2">(1984)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE MATRIX Resurrections</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Wake up and control your narrative.</i></font><br />
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When Warner Media’s bad leadership* threatened to reboot her franchise without her, Lana Wachowski instead transhipped the script with this clever flip-off to the Machine.<br />
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Her sharp humor makes the MATRIX more relevant than ever, covertly using the elastic constructed-conformity metaphor to satirize Greedy Corporations, TechBros, sexist gamers, ageist trendies, consumer kapos, copbots, dittoheads, pop psychologists, meme media, digital classism, perpetual upgrades, cynical reboots, male messiahs, and the global brainwash of binary absolutism.<br />
(Cue kneejerk media backlash from the guilty in 3-2-1…)<br />
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There’s also fresh inclusion, surprise revelations, a new sense of fun, and some casual spoofing of its own vaunted seriousness and cultural impact. All this and “White Rabbit”!<br />
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Along the way she gave us a lovely coda that rejuvenates as it renovates.<br />
Re/vision, upgrade, remedy, postscript, rebirth, open sky.<br />
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✶ ➤ <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/inside-the-flaming-dumpster-fire-at-att-warnermedia-hbo-max/" target="_blank">”Inside the flaming dumpster fire at AT+T/WarnerMedia/HBO Max“</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GHOSTBUSTERS: Afterlife</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two kids in badlands nowhere discover their connection to the legendary ghost events of 1984 NYC.</i></font><br />
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Jason Reitman, the literal next generation, does a fine homage to his dad’s original, the mythos, and the fans. Laudably innovative in its fresh style, shot like a handheld indie film about homeland misfits, it folds wily into the classic mode by its climax. Good call.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE GREEN KNIGHT</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>How far will Sir Gawain go to prove himself worthy of the Arthur legacy?</i></font><br />
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An oblique fable, a phantasmic odyssey, a lovely nightmare, a revelatory choice.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
EXCALIBUR <font size="2">(1981)</font>, GRETEL AND HANSEL <font size="2">(2020)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>WENDY</b></i></font> <small>(2020)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A contemporary indie reimagining of “Peter Pan”.</i></font><br />
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Shot loose and impressionistic in rustic wilds, this rough hewn tale in the U.S. backwoods with magic realism touches chases after kids on the confusing crux of maturity.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
LORD OF THE FLIES <font size="2">(1963)</font>, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE <font size="2">(2009)</font>, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD <font size="2">(2012)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LAPSIS</b></i></font> <small>(2020)</small> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>People are lured into a strange gig spooling cable through forests to mysterious computing cubes.</i></font><br />
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A bunch of indie newcomers impress in this wry jest on tech utopianism, pyramid scams, survivalism, and the gig economy.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN</b></i></font> (Poland)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The enigmatic masseuse in an upscale community may be more than he seems.</i></font><br />
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Low-key, sardonic, ambiguous.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>UNDINE</b></i></font> (Germany, <small>2020</small>)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Who is the mysterious historian, who seems so haunted by the water?</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>A QUIET PLACE Part II</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Like semaphores, the mute rebellion against the invading aliens begins.</i></font><br />
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A smart sequel worthy of the classic original, advancing the characters and the scope.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LAST NIGHT IN SOHO</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A modern fashion student keeps dreaming her way to 1965 London, but something is wrong there.</i></font><br />
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Edgar Wright’s labor of love evokes many film classics, from the Kitchen Sink class struggle of Richardson and the Mod energy of Lester, to some Argento and Romero chills in its third reel. Special kudos for including ‘60s screen icons Rita Tushingham, Terence Stamp, and Diana Rigg.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
A TASTE OF HONEY <font size="2">(1961)</font>, BLOW-UP <font size="2">(1966)</font>, TEOREMA <font size="2">(1968)</font>, SUSPIRIA <font size="2">(1977)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>COME TRUE</b></i></font> (Canada, <small>2020</small>)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The dark figures in a troubled sleep study patient’s dreams seem real.</i></font><br />
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Wide-eyed and wary Julia Sarah Stone is impressive in this smart chiller.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
INK <font size="2">(2009)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>A NIGHTMARE WAKES</b></i></font> <small>(2020)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Lord Byron dares the Shelleys to a ghost story contest.</i></font><br />
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There are multiple film interpretations of the storied night that produced <i>“Frankenstein”</i> (and <i>“The Vampyre”</i>). This is another interesting one.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
GOTHIC <font size="2">(1986)</font>, MARY SHELLEY <font size="2">(2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BLACK WIDOW</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The secret life of the mysterious spy hero, Natasha Romanoff.</i></font><br />
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Under-appreciated, this taut thriller grows surprisingly nuanced introducing her dysfunctional family, a complex history, and perpetual plot twists.
If you wanted an inversion on traditional James Bond films and couldn’t get with NO TIME TO DIE, you have it all here.<br />
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➤ <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/03/no-time-to-die-how-james-bond-advanced.html"target=_blank>NO TIME TO DIE: How James Bond Advanced Beyond</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHANG-CHI And The Legend Of The Ten Rings</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The haunted son of a crime lord must face his past while saving the future.</i></font><br />
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At last, the greatest martial arts master in comics history gets global spotlight. Instead of the ‘Bruce Lee in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE’ blow-out we always wanted, here is the Wushu Fantasy we didn’t know we needed so much. Rise and advance, spirit.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ETERNALS</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>They have guided humanity since its beginning, but to what ultimate celestial purpose?</i></font><br />
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Legendary artist Jack Kirby, the perpetual idea machine behind many of Marvel and DC Comics greatest concepts, gets his due. Chloé Zhao’s interpretation of his alien seraphs is a meditative epic bridging Kubrick to Malick in tone and subtext, by turns faceted and naturalistic while quicksilver and wry.
Those who expected rote formula didn’t get it, but quality still lasts for the long.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY <font size="2">(1968)</font>, THE FOUNTAIN <font size="2">(2006)</font>, THE TREE OF LIFE <font size="2">(2011)</font>, NOMADLAND <font size="2">(2020)</font></small><br />
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➤ <a href="“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html”target=_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY: Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: No Way Home</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>One day, Peter Parker fractured the Multiverse.</i></font><br />
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What if all eight Spider-Man films, with their varied actors and approaches, were actually all one long story coming to a head?<br />
A splendid time enjoyed by all.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RAYA And The Last Dragon</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A panoply of South Asian mythos fuses into an innovative Fantasy about empowerment and unity.</i></font><br />
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If SHANG-CHI raised the bar for exemplary action Fantasy this year, RAYA may even have surpassed it with its clever freshness, nuanced inclusivity, inspired visions, downright funniness, and its unusually brave climax. Wonderfully done in every way.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>LUCA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Two fishboys break the rules turning human to explore a forbidden Italian coastal town.</i></font><br />
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This Pixar love letter to Italia (and its cinema) is great fun, and gorgeously rendered. The pandemic kept away the movie crowds, but don’t miss out on enjoying this gem.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ENCANTO</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A magic realism fantasy about enchanted homes and haunted families.</i></font><br />
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This crowd-warmer bursts with beautiful design, always dancing fluid and fleet (if at times manic), with enough catchy songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda (<small>‘Hamilton’</small>) to tickle your synapses for days.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>HILDA And The Mountain King</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The adventurer from Trolberg is transformed into a troll!</i></font><br />
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The popular HILDA cartoon series (Netflix), based on Luke Pearson's graphic novels, gets a standalone feature film. This charming fantasy story for all ages is full of action, smarts, and heart.<br />
<small>Note: the film follows up on the finale of season 2, but still works separately.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>CHARLOTTE</b></i></font> (Canada/Belgium/France)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>She painted hundreds of memories of her life, before the Nazis could come for her.</i></font><br />
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The true story of Charlotte Salomon, an Expressionist painter of the '30s and '40s who used her art as spiritual therapy against her family's history of mental illness. Mistreated as a nobody, from her suffocating grandfather to the rising anti-Semites taking over Germany, her mass works declare a life and a person which still speaks to all.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE MITCHELLS vs. THE MACHINES</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A dysfunctional suburban family may be the key to defeating a mad Singularity from conquering humanity.</i></font><br />
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Sometimes spastic works. This chaotic tumble starts off clattering, but gradually its goofy heart and snappy wit hit lift-off.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>NO ORDINARY MAN</b></i></font> (Canada)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A known Jazz musician since the ‘30s was covertly transgender.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>BRIAN WILSON: Long Promised Road</b></i></font><br />
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A doc following Brian around on loose drives, reminiscing about the history of The Beach Boys.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>GET BACK</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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LET IT BE <small>(1970)</small> miscast the end of The Beatles as an acrimonious divorce, marring Rock history.
Peter Jackson’s new 6-hour mini-series recasts the early-1969 sessions in a fuller context: an emotionally varied and complex but fruitful transition from “<i>The White Album</i>” to “<i>Abbey Road</i>”, where their final triumph would allow each the confidence to go it alone.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SUMMER OF SOUL</b></i> (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)</font><br />
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A previously unreleased doc of the 1969 Harlem Culture Festival concerts, with knock-out performances from legends like Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, The Staple Singers, and the godly Sly And The Family Stone.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>FANNY: The Right To Rock</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Proper respect for Fanny, the first all-female Rock band signed to a major label to make albums. As a Pinay power pioneer, leader June Millington went on to usher Womyn’s Music, and helms <a href="“https://www.ima.org/“target=_blank">The Institute of The Musical Arts</a> where young women learn to Rock.<br />
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➤ <a href="https://www.fannythemovie.com/" target="_blank">FannyTheMovie.com</a><br />
➤ <a href="https://www.ima.org/snapshots/" target="_blank">"Snapsnots"</a>: June’s new solo album<br />
➤ <a href="https://www.ima.org/land-of-a-thousand-bridges/" target="_blank">"Land of a Thousand Bridges"</a>: June’s bio book<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything</b></i></font><br />
It’s true. The apex of the Counterculture was a tsunami of inspiration and emancipation that has lifted all creative (and political) boats ever since.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE SPARKS BROTHERS</b></i></font><br />
Peeling back the mystery of the Maul brothers, making malleable Art-Pop since the early-’70s as the band Sparks.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
their musical, ANNETTE <font size="2">(2021)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
For a too brief but vital period in the mid-‘70s, African rock bands like WITCH waved their freak flag high. But rebellion was overcome by government goons, and the scene was left only on wax and memory.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>POLY STYRENE: I Am A Cliché</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>“Oh, bondage… up yours!”</i></font><br />
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The leader of X-Ray Spex was anything but cliched; a Somali teen with braces and mania fronting a punk band of barbed guitar with screeching sax, an alien visitor tearing up consumerism and misogyny.<br />
Riot Grrrl 101.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MY OCTOPUS TEACHER</b></i></font> <small>(2020)</small><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A jaded filmmaker discovers an unlikely bond with a small octopus in the kelp reef.</i></font><br />
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Opens your heart and your mind.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>ATTICA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In 1971, prisoners rose up against systemic abuse.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SABAYA</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The struggle to liberate sex slaves from the terrorist group, ISIS.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE</b></i></font> (China)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>3 revered writers share their lifetime overviews of China's modern evolutions.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>TENZIN</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A personal tragedy exposes the abuses to Tibetans by occupying Chinese.</i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>76 DAYS</b></i></font> (China/USA)<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The early spread of COVID in China.</i></font><br />
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<font color="ffffff"><center><h1>N E W S</h1></center></font><br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58F"><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE DAILY SHOW, with Trevor Noah</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE HANDMAID’S TALE</b></i></font> 4 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The tide begins to turn against the oppressors.</i></font><br />
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This important series, fighting valiantly against all fundamentalism and its core misogyny, has done an admirable job expanding out Margaret Atwood’s classic book.<br />
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But what if the path you’re forging starts forking into the wrong one? This season, while notably game-changing in its second-half turnaround, is troubled by a blind vengeance streak. Keeping the direct spirit of the book, our revolutionary hero should be more akin to Harriet Tubman or Ann Frank than ‘John Wick’. Consider your final steps thoughtfully.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>POSE</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The final season.</i></font><br />
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<i>'Pose'</i> was so richly abundant that it always did everything at once. In syncopation, its story beats made success of playful excesses: simultaneously dopey and divine, sappy Soap and inspired drama, scene-chew and soliloquy, flashy trash and fine art, catty and classy. It always made you cry and laugh, and felt more real for being so conversely perverse.<br />
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Strongest in its activism, grounded by its deep heart, the series has been invaluable. First, for its heartbreaking chronicle of the AIDS crisis across a decade span <small>(1987-'98)</small>. Second, for its breakthrough representation for the LGBTQ community and most especially for Trans performers. The belles of the ballroom, Michaela Jaé Rodriquez, Indya Moore, and the imperious Dominique Jackson all blossomed as fine performers who deserve major success in the future. Vogue like you know.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
FAME <font size="2">(1980)</font>, 'Angels In America' <font size="2">(mini-series, 2003)</font>, <font size="2">TANGERINE (2015)</font>, 'It's A Sin' <font size="2">(mini-series, 2022)</font></small><br />
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<font color="#FFFFFF">✭✭✭✭✭</font> Mini-Series Of The Year.<br />
<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>MAID</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A poor single mother struggles to support her young daughter and get forward in life.</i></font><br />
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TV suburbia never existed. Based on Stephanie Land’s true memoir, this brave series strips life to the real.<br />
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Poverty is a rigged game, designed by the high to crush the low. Survival is a daily gauntlet, which aspiring writer Alex desperately threads with her wits and a resolve driven by fierce love. It’s a familiar path to the struggling. Toxic peers, screw-up family, dead-end local, serf jobs, hell commutes, jaded aid. Living in trailers, campers, shelters, cars. Working too hard for the spoiled, indifferent, cruel. Hustling triple to get a third as far. Helplessness, anger, exhaustion, joys. <i>‘Maid’</i> feels like a documentary and rings true with every memory you have. Central star Margaret Qualley is hypnotic, and Andie MacDowell (her actual mother as her mother) has the wildest role of her career.<br />
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Most shows are fables you step out of after. This one followed my thoughts for weeks, as if I was worried about actual loved ones and our shared problems.<br />
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That’s how stories should be told and felt.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>MARE OF EASTTOWN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Fighting her own demons, a Phillie hamlet cop’s life becomes entwined with a devastating murder.</i></font><br />
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Numbed by grief, a tough sarge is confronted by a crime that fissures her from all sides. An intricate mystery, harrowing and constantly surprising, as funny as it is blunt, riding on a deep character play, with the excellent Kate Winslet supported by a first-class cast.<br />
Don’t miss it.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A treatment of the true events surrounding a royal scandal in 1963.</i></font><br />
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The scandal siege surrounding the Duchess reveals the perfect storm of hypocrisy created by a classist elite, a sleazy press, and a trashtalk public.<br />
(Which is why you are punked by every headline narrative now.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>IT’S A SIN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The turmoils to gay liberation caused by AIDS during 1980s Britain.</i></font><br />
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Russell T. Davis (<i>‘Queer As Folk’</i>, <i>‘Doctor Who’</i>) parallels <i>‘Pose’</i> with his memoir of his London youth. Often funny, always frank, we follow winning freespirits devastated by a stealth disease, misinformation, a lax press, a repressive government, and family bigotry. Along the way, humanity carries the day.<br />
You’ll laugh, cry, and feel love.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>An alternate history allegory where the anti-slavery escape system is not just a metaphor.</i></font><br />
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Barry Jenkins (Best Picture for <small>MOONLIGHT</small>) adapts Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed 2016 book. Using the device of a literal freedom railway system as a hinge, this symbolic parable follows a runaway woman through the hierarchical spaces of slavery. Bittersweet and brutal, clear-eyed and piercing (if consistently absolutist), proudly human and fiercely rebellious.<br />
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Thuso Mbedu is arresting as the tortured lead. Jenkins turns every chapter into a mesmerizing short film, cinematographer James Laxton’s lucent use of natural light evokes Hal Ashby and Haskell Wexler, all filled with ominous ache by Nicholas Britell’s haunting score.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
Ellison’s <i>“The Invisible Man”</i> <font size="2">(1952)</font>, Márquez’s <i>“One Hundred Years Of Solitude”</i> <font size="2">(1967)</font>, Haley’s <i>“Roots”</i> <font size="2">(1976)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STATION ELEVEN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In a post-plague dystopia, a haunted woman in a traveling actors show is obsessed with a visionary graphic novel from before.</i></font><br />
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Like Brian K. Vaughan writing a Vertigo Comic countermanding King’s <i>“The Stand”</i> with a Fellini sensibility. Stitching the mysterious synchronicities of motley characters across before and after, this fresh mosaic about starting over is as startling as it is touching.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>'Star Trek'</i>, "The Conscience Of The King" <font size="2">(S01/E13, 1966)</font>, <i>'Lost'</i> <font size="2">(2004)</font>, <i>'Utopia'</i> <font size="2">(UK, 2013)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A promising filmmaker comes to LA, encountering monsters real and surreal along her struggle.</i></font><br />
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Rosa Salazar notches another genre win in this demented black comedy / thriller / stylefest / nightmare / cautionary tale.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><b><i>MIDNIGHT MASS</i></b></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Something terrible is rising amid a remote fishing island community.</i></font><br />
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All the foreboding and chills you expect. But also a deeper homage to ’70s horror novels, with rich world-building and actual conversations at length with depth between characters.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
THE EXORCIST <font size="2">(1973)</font>, JAWS <font size="2">(1975)</font>, <i>'Salem’s Lot'</i> <font size="2">(1979)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>CLARICE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The return of Clarice Starling.</i></font><br />
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As a fan of Thomas Harris’ books, <i>“Red Dragon”</i> and <i>“The Silence of the Lambs”</i>, I enjoyed Bryan Fuller’s prequel TV series <i>'Hannibal'</i> <small>(2013-’15)</small> like everyone else. Even though it was tonally wrong.<br />
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Harris’ books were procedural thrillers more akin to <i>“All The Presidents Men”</i> and ZODIAC, whereas Fuller was channeling them as a Lynch-esque gothic delirium, essentially turning Lecter into a symbolist and somnambulistic version of <i>“Dracula”</i>. The acclaimed <i>'Hannibal'</i> show entranced its admirers so much for three seasons, no one thought to challenge that. When the separate TV series <i>'Clarice'</i> arrived (a sequel to <i>“Silence”</i>, made by other rights holders), many partisans dismissed it unfairly as an interloper when in truth it was an intervention.<br />
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Harris’ two best books balanced their sensitive profilers. If Will Graham had intuited crime investigations through a cognitive empathy with killers, Clarice Starling did so through an instinctive empathy with victims. <i>'Clarice'</i> restored the sober investigative procedural tone of the books, but now infused with welcome new dimensions: her folksy warmth and mysterious past, new sensitivity to LGBTQ+ identities, an especially welcome spotlight on Ardelia Mapp, and a canny focus on wider crimes than serial killer formulas. Currently in limbo, the sharp series deserved better reception and more seasons.<br />
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Here’s how to make everyone happy. Let Bryan Fuller make Phase 2 of his original plans, adapting an expansion of <i>“The Silence Of The Lambs”</i>, with the star of this series, Rebecca Breeds. Then make Phase 3, where Will and Clarice team up for Fuller’s all-new finale, (while acknowledging that the <i>'Clarice'</i> series fits in between them). All the fans will be happy, and the various rights-holders will get a mutually lucrative success. Balance wins the day.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
<i>‘Mindhunter‘</i> <font size="2">(2017)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LUPIN</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A modern admirer of the literary “Gentleman Burglar” uses his techniques to clear his father’s name.</i></font><br />
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Omar Sy is a charming lead in this breezy homage to the Auguste Lupin books, at its best in its stylish heist sequences.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>PROFESSOR T.</b></i></font> (UK) 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A hypersensitive crime historian helps Scotland Yard solve murders.</i></font><br />
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This is the fourth iteration of this series, with previous versions from Belgium, Germany, and France. A variant on Sherlock Holmes and the neurotic <i>'Monk'</i> <small>(2002)</small>, this familiar but fun mystery procedural is continually entertaining thanks to its solid leads, Ben Miller and Emma Naomi.<br />
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<font color="ffffff"><center><h1>A N I M A T I O N</h1></center></font><br />
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For a century, the assembly-line production of traditional Animation has always been restricted to 2D characters on 3D backgrounds, essentially looking like comic book figures pinned onto a watercolor painting. It’s a shotgun wedding of two good/mismatched styles we’ve all grown used to.<br />
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<center><small>Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1938);<br />
Sprited Away (2001)</small></center><br />
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After two decades of SFX houses creating photorealistic CG creatures in live action films, it’s f-i-n-a-l-l-y dawning on both cel and CG animators to make the foreground look like the background. This year saw notable advances that way, by varied degrees.<br />
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<center><small>'<i>Star Trek: Prodigy</i>';<br />
'<i>Star Wars: Visions</i>'<br />
'<i>Arcane</i>'</small></center><br />
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<i>'Star Trek: Prodigy'</i> mapped more painterly textures onto its CG characters’ faces to enliven the puppetry. Among all the slick CG in THE MILLERS vs THE MACHINES, the hands and figures of the characters often have textures like loose production art. The stunning samurai opener in <i>'Star Wars: Visions'</i> unfurled like bamboo ink drawings moving. And most advanced of all, <i>'Arcane'</i> unified its characters and backgrounds in one style like it had all been hand-painted in oils.<br />
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<center><small>'<i>New Gods</i>'; 'Tintin';<br />
'<i>Kingdom Come</i>'; '<i>Black Hole</i>';<br />
'<i>The Spirit</i>'; Pinkney's '<i>The Lion And The Mouse</i>'</small></center><br />
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So let’s go forward. Make animated films that reflect the exact art styles of the original sources; for example, a <i>'New Gods'</i> that duplicates Jack Kirby’s actual cubist-futurism style; a clean-line <i>'Tintin'</i> that sprints like Hergé come to life; a <i>'Kingdom Come'</i> adaptation in Alex Ross’ qouache naturalism; the eerily exact inking of Charles Burn’s forest noir, <i>'Black Hole'</i>; a <i>'Corto Maltese'</i> adventure in Hugo Pratt’s organic inks, or a <i>'Terry And The Pirates'</i> in Milton Caniff’s swashes, or <i>'The Spirit'</i> in all of Will Eisner’s noir glory; childrens’ tales in Jerry Pinkney’s lush watercolors; <i>'Fun Home'</i> adapted in Alison Bechdel’s real hand; or Studio Ghibli crafting foregrounds as painterly as their legendary backgrounds.<br />
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And avoid the CG puppet lope underneath all these mapped textures; like AVATAR, use mo-cap of real actors making the actual moves as they act the lines instead of just reading in a booth, for more realistic actions and expressions (and vocals) to guide the animators’ finishes.<br />
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We’ve had fine harbingers: Disney’s metatext approach on their <i>'Winnie The Pooh'</i> cartoons; the roto/shop of A SCANNER DARKLY <small>(2006)</small>; the hand-painted oils of LOVING VINCENT <small>(2017)</small>. Draw on the possible.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>CITY OF GHOSTS</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A kids group investigates Los Angeles looking for ghosts, meeting friendly spirits who teach them the eclectic histories of the city.</i></font><br />
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An all-ages delight, genuinely adorable and deftly smart, with a natural voice cast and inspired music.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>DISENCHANTED</b></i></font> 3<br />
Matt Groening’s Fantasy spoof is more engaging for its plots than its jokes as it goes, but it’s always fun.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ARCANE</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A steampunk Fantasy spiraling around spectral futures and haunted pasts.</i></font><br />
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This adaptation based on the popular online video game <i>‘League Of Legends’</i> thrills with its sumptuous world-building, painted style, and power intrigues, but what surprises is the deeply heartfelt story that catalyzes its engine.<br />
Terrific in all regards, for casual viewers and gamers alike.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>STAR TREK: Prodigy</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The first Star Trek geared for young viewers takes flight.</i></font><br />
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It had all the warning signs of typical CG Animation excess*, but instead turned out to be just great. A fresh and innovative All-Ages series following young space cadets that gets richer as it goes.<br />
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✶ The CG Animation Blunder List:<br />
Over-designed, hyperbolic, frenzied, strobing, slick, faddish, no-brow, shrill, clatter-chatter.<br />
Please stop.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Lower Decks</b></i></font> 2<br />
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More of an ensemble approach this season instead of focused through the irrepressible Mariner, jogging then sprinting to new spaces.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>STAR TREK: Discovery</b></i></font> 4 ⇧<br />
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The franchise’s most radical series does the most unexpected thing of all… going conventional? Reaching a point in space and time to start over, it retools itself to tell Berman-era ship stories with all the flair of Abrams’ films still intact. Trad/Rad at the same time.
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><b><i>COWBOY BEBOP</i></b></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A live-action amplification of the classic 1998 Anime series.</i></font><br />
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Purists reacted puerile, wanting precise literalism. Meanwhile, on the real side, the brave series jettisoned some of the original’s flaws (cheesecake, homophobia, damsel-ing, rote stoicism, noir fatalism) and revved up needed upgrades (deeper interplay, double story time, character depth beyond postures, surprise turnovers, metatextual in-jokes). Once it had its feet by the fourth episode, it was running full tilt.<br />
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The gripers won and Netflix canceled it. The quality still remains regardless, so the adults in the room see ya, Space Cowboys.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><b><i>DOCTOR WHO</i></b></font> 13 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The third and final season of Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor.</i></font><br />
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Never mind the sexists, here’s The Doctor!<br />
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Showrunner Chris Chibnell (<i>‘Broadchurch’</i>) continued to bravely deconstruct and revitalize The Doctor’s secret history, liberating it from continuity constraints and twerking at the kneejerks by opening up an inclusive and infinite range of new possibilities.<br />
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Wipe the froth off, PubYobs, and get with. Next.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LOST IN SPACE</b></i></font> 3<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>This space-faring series was first-rate from start to finish.</i></font><br />
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The final season, always exciting and touching, wrapped up all of its bows in fine fashion.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SNOWPIERCER</b></i></font> 2<br />
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Sometimes, when a key character leaves, you can feel the hard rattle of an entire series straining to switch gears. (see also: <i>'Wiseguy'</i>, <i>'Misfits'</i>) This season worked to switch tracks while trying to go forward. Results varied.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>THE WHEEL OF TIME</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
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What could have been a New Age gloss on Tolkien conventions finds its own feet as an inclusive and crafty advance in Fantasy. And it has the most breathtaking scenery (drone-cam swoops) on Television.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>WANDA/VISION</b></i></font><br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>In the wake of loss, the magical Wanda finds herself rotating through a sitcom reality.</i></font><br />
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Getting meta with television, film and comics continuity, and its audience’s expectations proves a fun mindwarp.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The mantle of Captain America is heavy, but who will take it on?</i></font><br />
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The films have celebrated the classic ‘60s and ’70s Marvel heroes. The comics have moved on to diverse young upstarts inheriting their mantles.<br />
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Now the shows and films are translating those transitions, bringing us a new wave of contemporary heroes that reflect the present world and the audience.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>LOKI</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Given a second chance, will the trickster choose a better path?</i></font><br />
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The God of Mischief has always been malleable, but now he’s beside himselves. A double buddy comedy with ‘70s futurism, alternate selves, cosmic grandeur, cool elan, and a great library.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WHAT IF?</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>The Watcher reveals alternate realities of how key Marvel movie events may have forked differently.</i></font><br />
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DC had 'Imaginary Stories' in the ’60s. Marvel responded with <i>"What If?"</i> comics <small>(1977)</small> where key comics events each took a different turn.<br />
This animated series does the same for pivotal MCU film events, before becoming something much more surprising and crucial.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>HAWKEYE</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>There’s a new archer in town and she may be better.</i></font><br />
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More mantle turnovers, as the new Hawkeye and Black Widow arrive, in this very funny action series.<br />
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Christmas! Pizza Dog! Boomerang Arrows! Combat bonding! And a shocking villain!<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>WE ARE LADY PARTS</b></i></font> (UK) 1 ⇧<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>A Muslim punk band in London smashes all barriers, social and internal.</i></font><br />
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The smartest comedy on television: like <i>'Fleabag'</i> smashed into <i>'The Young Ones'</i>, an outrageous romp taking on immigrant challenges, dogma doctrine, pub slobs, shoulder chips, social vampires, and projectile vomiting. Add great music, stir up hotheads, serve justice.<br />
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Anjana Vasan is constantly hilarious, her guitar playing chameleonic, and her a capella version of Radiohead’s <i>“Creep”</i> a complete jaw-dropper.<br />
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<font color="008ae6"><font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>RESERVATION DOGS</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
<i>Four Native Americans teens cope with wild ups and downs on an Oklahoma reservation.</i></font><br />
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The other smartest comedy on television: like Sherman Alexie trolling John Hughes, a hilarious coming-of-ager livewired by potato chip heists, Rap cousins on banana bikes, chucklehead gangs, the loopy Spirit Guide, elder nudism, and The Dear Lady in flares.<br />
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<small><font color="008ae6">See also:</font><br />
SMOKE SIGNALS <font size="2">(1998)</font></small><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING</b></i></font> 1<br />
<font color="008ae6"><i>Who is the killer in the elite apartment building?, ask the amateur podcasters.</i></font><br />
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Steve Martin and Martin Short reunite, abetted by Selena Gomez, for a wily spoof on murder mysteries, cliffhanger podcasts, Manhattanites, Sting, superfans, Broadway, TV detective shows, and some REAR WINDOW. Tune in.<br />
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<font color="008ae6"><font size="5"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>Pen15</b></i></font> 2.2<br />
(This 'second half' of Season 2 a year later should just have been called Season 3.)<br />
The finale, as grown actors/show-makers Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle reach a transition point playing their 13-year-old selves. Smart, fearless, and hilarious the whole way.<br />
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Classic Films are the timeless canon from which all movies expand. They are essential to be seen, and should be enjoyed at their best.<br />
Here are some of the important film restorations of the past year.<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>NUMBER SEVENTEEN</b></i></font> <small>(Britain, 1932)</small><br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4k <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>BRINGING UP BABY</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1938)</small><br />
Howard Hawks • <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>CITIZEN KANE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1941)</small> ⇧<br />
Orson Welles • 4K Blu-Ray <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1953)</small><br />
Samuel Fuller • Blu-ray <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>REAR WINDOW</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1954)</small> ⇧<br />
Alfred Hitchcock • 4K <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE HUMAN CONDITION Trilogy</b></i></font> <small>(Japan, 1959)</small> ⇧<br />
Masaki Kobayashi • Blu-Ray <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR</b></i></font> <small>(India, 1960)</small> ⇧<br />
Satyajit Rey<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE</b></i></font> <small>(W. Germany, 1963)</small><br />
Michael Powell<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>ONIBABA</b></i></font> <small>(Japan, 1964)</small> ⇧<br />
Kaneto Shindo • <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS</b></i></font><br />
<small>(US, 1968)</small><br />
Melvin Van Peebles<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>MANDABI</b></i></font> <small>(Senegal, 1968)</small><br />
Ousmane Sembene<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE LEARNING TREE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1969)</small> ⇧<br />
Gordon Parks • <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>EL TOPO</b></i></font> <small>(Mex, 1970)</small> ⇧<br />
Alejandro Jodorowsky • 4k <i>(Arrow Video)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>A CLOCKWORK ORANGE</b></i></font> <small>(Britain, 1971)</small> ⇧<br />
Stanley Kubrick • 4K <i>(Warner Brothers)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>NATIONTIME</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1972)</small> ⇧<br />
William Greaves • <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>HOLY MOUNTAIN</b></i></font> <small>(Mex, 1973)</small><br />
Alejandro Jodorowsky • 4k <i>(Arrow Video)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>TOUKI BOUKI</b></i></font> <small>(Senegal, 1973)</small><br />
Djibril Diop Mambety • 2K <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>THE MIRROR</b></i></font> <small>(Russia, 1974)</small><br />
Andrei Tarkovsky<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1978)</small><br />
Philip Kaufman • 4K Blu-Ray <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>BLACK LIFE: Losing Ground</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1982)</small> ⇧<br />
Kathleen Collins<br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE THING</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1982)</small><br />
John Carpenter • 4K Blu-Ray <i>(Universal)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>MISSISSIPPI MASALA</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1991)</small><br />
Mira Nair • <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="d2ff4d">•</font></font> <font color="#cccc00"><i><b>THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS</b></i></font> <small>(US, 1991)</small> ⇧<br />
Jonathan Demme • 4K <i>(Kino Lorber)</i><br />
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<font size="5"><font color="99ff33">•</font></font> <font color="#99cc00"><i><b>MULHOLLAND DRIVE</b></i></font> <small>(US, 2001)</small> ⇧<br />
David Lynch • 4K <i>(Criterion)</i><br />
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<center><small><i>M</i>;<br />
<i>Boudu Saved From Drowning</i>;<br />
<i>Notorious</i>;<br />
<i>Beauty And The Beast</i>;<br />
<i>Seven Samurai</i>;<br />
<i>The Seventh Seal</i></small></center><br />
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<font color="ffffff"><center><h1><b>C R I T E R I O N</b></h1></center></font><br />
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Netflix is like the flashy dance club of streaming entertainment, but <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/" target="_blank">The Criterion Channel</a> is for the deep cuts of real culture.<br />
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It needs to be said. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu impress with their glossy New Now, and they do have many current gems, but they completely lack heritage classics. All width and no depth. That's all fun, but how long can you chew gum for supper? At some point, when you crave for a more well-rounded diet of substance that sustains your mind and soul, there's only one place to get serious about learning full-quality cinema... The Canon Of Great Films That Actually Matter.<br />
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<center><small><i>A Raisin In The Sun</i>;<br />
<i>Lord Of The Flies</i>;<br />
<i>8 1/2</i>;<br />
<i>Easy Rider</i>;<br />
<i>Lady Snowblood</i>;<br />
<i>Claudine</i></small></center><br />
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While other streaming sites are High School, <b>The Criterion Channel</b> is Oxford.<br />
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<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/" target="_blank">The Criterion Channel</a> film-streaming site is the best cinema from around the world and every decade since film began, along with new indie films and acclaimed documentaries. Plus, Criterion is the vanguard in restoring great films to a precision standard of picture and sound that matches the present. Restored classics now look better than the day they were struck. If you've watched Mark Cousins' <i>"The Story of Film: An Odyssey"</i> documentary series as a primer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey" target="_blank">></a>, this site is the true library to expand your enjoyment into the most essential film classics. Every fine film we appreciate now branches directly from the roots of these timeless works of cinematic art, whether it's a romance, period piece, character drama, guerilla handheld, Rock film, style fest, rebel indie, or avant garde. Get the whole picture.<br />
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<center><small><i>Repo Man</i>;<br />
<i>Wings Of Desire</i>;<br />
<i>The Princess Bride</i>;<br />
<i>Y Tu Mama Tambien</i>;<br />
<i>In The Mood For Love</i>;<br />
<i>Parasite</i></small></center><br />
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<small>(also explore: <a href="https://www.fandor.com/" target="_blank">Fandor</a>, <a href="https://watch.filmatique.com/" target="_blank">Filmatique</a>, <a href="https://mubi.com/" target="_blank">Mubi</a>, <a href="https://www.tcm.com/" target="_blank">Turner Classic Movies</a>, <a href="https://www.kanopy.com/" target="_blank">Kanopy</a>, <a href="https://filmhub.com/" target="_blank">Filmhub</a>, <a href="http://www.indiepixunlimited.com/" target="_blank">IndiePix</a>, <a href="https://www.indieflix.com/" target="_blank">IndieFlix</a>, <a href="https://www.ovid.tv/" target="_blank">Ovid</a>, <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/" target="_blank">BFI Player</a> (UK), <a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline" target="_blank">OpenCulture</a>)</small><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/03/best-movies-tv-2020.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2020</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2018/01/best-movies-tv-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2017</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<center><h2><font color="FFFF66">ALL THE</font><br />
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<center><font color="ccff33"><i>Hard Pass all those trendy-indie<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">BEST ALBUMS 2021<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Curtis Harding</b>, <i>"If Words Were Flowers"</i></font><br />
Psychedelic Soul.<br />
Curtis only gets greater on each album with memorable tunes, a supple range, adventurous arrangements, and a feeling of all limits lifting.<br />
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<small>(see also: Black Pumas, Greyhounds, Benjamin Booker)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Courettes</b>, <i>"Back In Mono"</i></font><br />
Garage Rock and Girl Group.<br />
'You wanted The Shangri-Las if they were also The Sonics and you got it!'... thanks to this Brazilian guitarist and Danish drummer.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Crystals, Thee Headcoatees, The Raveonettes)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Menahan Street Band</b>, <i>"The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band"</i></font><br />
Cinematic Funk.<br />
'Who's the headset flick who's a sex machine to all your dance floor kicks? Damn right.'<br />
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<small>(see also: Isaac Hayes, Charles Bradley, Lee Fields)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Bachelor</b>, <i>"Doomin’ Sun"</i></font><br />
Indie Folk.<br />
Semi-supergroup members (Jay Som, Palehound) unwind as a Indie Folk duo with sharp lyrics, warm introspection, canny melodies, and acoustic chops.<br />
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<small>(see also: Meat Puppets, Aimee Mann, Hand Habits)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Fay Hallam</b>, <i>"Modulations"</i></font><br />
Groovy Mod.<br />
Like a freshly discovered Library Music album of timeless grooviness, flowing all the get-go into your swingin' Go-Go.<br />
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<small>(see also: Alan Hawkshaw, Piero Piccioni, Chris Joss, Shawn Lee)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Autoramas</b>, <i>"Autointitulado"</i></font><br />
Garage Wave.<br />
Like Dick Dale jamming with Devo on Deimos, the Brazil quartet brings us more startlingly distorted Garage Surf with snappy New Wave spasms.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Spotnicks, The Rezillos, The B-52's, Polysics)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Brian Wilson</b>, <i>"At My Piano"</i></font><br />
Baroque Pop.<br />
You thought that Brian's harmonies and arrangements for The Beach Boys were sublime enough, but wait till you hear the core beauty of them on acoustic piano.<br />
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<small>(see also: George Gershwin, Van Dyke Parks, Paul McCartney)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Black Keys</b>, <i>"Delta Kreme"</i></font><br />
Bruising Blues.<br />
The Blues is the original spark of Rock'n'Roll, and the fuse is still lit.<br />
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<small>(see also: The White Stripes, Gary Clark Jr, Joanna Connor)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Robert Plant + Alison Krauss</b>, <i>"Raise The Roof"</i></font><br />
Alt-Roots.<br />
Following their lauded album "<i>Raising Sand</i>" <small>(2007)</small>, the troubadours interpret more folk, bluegrass, blues, and N'awlins gems.<br />
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<small>(see also: Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Gillian Welch and David Rawlins)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Tristen</b>, <i>"Aquatic Flowers"</i></font><br />
Baroque Pop.<br />
Tristen excels at strong pop hooks with sly twists and open-hearted lyrics.<br />
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<small>(see also: The New Pornographers, Jesca Hoop, Gabriella Cohen)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Limiñanas + Laurent Garnier</b>, <i>"De Pelicula"</i></font><br />
Sin-ematic Garage.<br />
An imaginary film noir soundtrack from the grimy Psyche duo and the dance DJ, eerie and edgy and errant.<br />
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<small>(see also: Can, Robert Johnson and Punchdrunks, Calibro 35, L’épée)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Robert Finley</b>, <i>"Sharecropper’s Son"</i></font><br />
Rural Blues.<br />
The roots soil is as fertile as ever, and Robert's rich soul and rural pride will regenerate you.<br />
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<small>(see also: Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Albert King, Black Joe Lewis And The Honeybears)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>La Luz</b>, <i>"La Luz"</i></font><br />
Baroque Surf.<br />
The pulsing Surf ripples and dreamy Girl Group sighs grow more introspective and psychedelic this time, abetted by production wizard Adrian Younge.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Neptunas, Susan And The Surftones, Shantih Shantih, Frankiie)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>La Femme</b>, <i>"Paradigmes"</i></font><br />
ModPsycheLoungeRave.<br />
France's coolest band pumps the dream party (and upstairs orgy) with Go-Go pop, gauzy psyche, cooing songbirds, beatnick rap, brash horns, and clang guitars.<br />
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<small>(see also: Manfred Hübler And Siegfried Schwab, Casino Music, Air, Pepe Deluxe)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Joel Culpepper</b>, <i>"Sgt. Culpepper"</i></font><br />
Baroque Soul.<br />
From its clever title in, this smart Soul record delivers the real feels with dynamic frills.<br />
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<small>(see also: Imani Coppola, Liam Bailey)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Mike Edison + Guadalupe Plata</b>, <i>"The Devil Can’t Do You No Harm"</i></font><br />
Garage-abilly Gospel Noir.<br />
The Rockabilly growler and Spanish Garagers collide in a reverb-soaked recital of hymnals, folklore, and midnight tremelo.<br />
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<small>(see also: Link Wray, Tom Waits, The Limiñanas)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Gary Louris</b>, <i>"Jump For Joy"</i></font><br />
Singer Songwriter.<br />
The prime mover of The Jayhawks does a rare solo turn, stripping it down to melodic folk confessionals with occasional electronic textures.<br />
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<small>(see also: latter Beatles, America, Wilco)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Cha Wa</b>, <i>"My People"</i></font><br />
New Orleans Funk.<br />
Timeless Funky gumbo to ignite the fiyo in your bayou.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Meters, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, The Soul Rebels)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Nicole Atkins</b>, <i>"Memphis Ice"</i></font><br />
Eclectic Soul.<br />
The Rock'n'Soul chameleon revises her acclaimed "<i>Italian Ice</i>" <small>(2020)</small> album in new mellow Memphis Soul terms.<br />
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<small>(see also: Patsy Cline, Dusty Springfield, Gemma Ray, Hannah Williams)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>El Michels Affair</b>, <i>"Yeti Season"</i></font><br />
Eerie Cinematic.<br />
Like a moody Bollywood psychedelic soundtrack with flourishes of Turkish funk and Spaghetti Westerns, groovy and heady.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sheila Chandra, Dengue Fever, Ikebe Shakedown, Ghost Funk Orchestra)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Tash Neal</b>, <i>"Charge It To The Game"</i></font><br />
'70s Rock Redux.<br />
The London Souls duo made one brilliant album of timeless Classic Rock <small>(2015)</small>. Now Tash Neal and Chris St. Hilaire are making solo work, with Tash going full Thin Lizzy while Chris pursues Calypso beats and mellow songwriter tunes.<br />
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<small>(see also: Thin Lizzy, early Lenny Kravitz)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff3">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Adia Victoria</b>, <i>"A Southern Gothic"</i></font><br />
Alt-Roots.<br />
The Flannery O'Connor of Americana music, getting more ambitious and complex amid the atmospheric production of T-Bone Burnett.<br />
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<small>(see also: Lucinda Williams, Rhiannon Giddens)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Micky Dolenz</b>, <i>"Dolenz Sings Nesmith"</i></font><br />
Singer Songwriter.<br />
Micky, the heart of The Monkees, gives a full-hearted tribute to the brainy one, covering many of his '70s solo songs. The version of "<i>Circle Sky</i>" with an Indian orchestra is astounding.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby Stills And Nash, Poco)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>St. Vincent</b>, <i>"Daddy’s Home"</i></font><br />
Askew Soul.<br />
Our mercurial hero relaxes on the angular art-pop in favor of a warm mid-'70s sultry Soul groove.<br />
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<small>(see also: Laura Nyro, Annie Peacock, Rickie Lee Jones, Feist)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Orquesta Akokán</b>, <i>"16 Rayos"</i></font><br />
Cuban Mambo.<br />
The group keeps Cuba's vibrant musical traditions alive with their vital roof-raisers.<br />
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<small>(see also: Perez-Prado, Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra, The Souljazz Orchestra)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Eddie 9V</b>, <i>"Little Black Flies"</i></font><br />
Soul Blues.<br />
That wonderful place between Chess and Stax where the blues shouts like sunshine.<br />
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<small>(see also: J.B. Lenoir, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, James Hunter Band)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Caleb Landry Jones</b>, <i>"Gadzooks, Vol. 1"</i></font><br />
Art Psyche.<br />
The cracked actor pours out more potent ideas in one song than most do in an album, a sparkling cascade of luminous delirium.<br />
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<small>(see also: Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Julian Cope, Crispin Hellion Glover)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Cedric Burnside</b>, <i>"I Be Trying"</i></font><br />
Gutbucket Blues.<br />
Cedric's roughhewn strummers and tough clangers resonate like a wounded soul grown as tempered as steel.<br />
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<small>(see also: R.L. Burnside, Elmore James, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Aaron Lee Tasjan</b>, <i>"Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!"</i></font><br />
Melodic songwriter.<br />
Tasjan is one of those singer-songwriter-showmen and crack melodicists (practically minted from a factory in 1971) who seem like they can do anything, and so far has.<br />
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<small>(see also: latter Beatles, early Elton John, Harry Nilsson, Elliott Smith)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Amythyst Kiah</b>, <i>"Wary + Strange"</i></font><br />
Alt-Roots.<br />
Gutpunching the roots industry with her bluegrass protest song "<i>Black Myself</i>", Kiah returns with wildfire sophistication, a soulful range, and palpable restlessness.<br />
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<small>(see also: Odetta, Our Native Daughters, The Carolina Chocolate Drops)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ccff33">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Secret Sisters</b>, <i>"Quicksand"</i></font><br />
Country.<br />
In this 4-song EP, the Rogers sisters make more suprising leaps forward in song craft and harmonies with two originals, plus covers of The Strokes and Fiona Apple.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Everly Brothers, Alison Krauss, I'm With Her)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffffff">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>St. Paul And The Broken Bones</b>, <i>"The Alien Coast"</i></font><br />
Art Soul.<br />
The Alabama Soul outfit leap another light year with this mercurial extravaganza, a textural passion tour by turns moody, brash, jazzy, tough, dreamy, and finally triumphant. Wow!<br />
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<small>(see also: Eddie Hinton, Curtis Harding, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats)</small><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Psyche!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Classic Rock!</font> <font color="ccff33">Glam!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Roots!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Blues!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Soul!</font> <font color="ccff33">Funk!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Africana!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">World!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl!</font> <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rock!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Electro!</font><br />
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<font color="ccff33">Alt-Rap!</font> <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Jazz!</font> <font color="ccff33">Cinematic!</font><br />
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<font color="ffffff">RESIST!</font> <font color="ccff33">Happy Holidays!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><small>St. Vincent; Tash Neal;<br />
Adia Victoria; Lera Lynn</small></center><br />
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<font color="00ffbf">13 hours</font><font color="00cc00"> of thinky, wiggly music</font>, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Rockabilly</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Jimmy Dale Richardson, Lily Locksmith, Miranda And The Beat, The Honkabillies, and The Courettes.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Surf / Shindig</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Surf Zombies, Underwater Bosses, Autoramas, Mike Edison + Guadalupe Plata, Lord Huron, Shannon And The Clams, Los Mambo Jambo, Pokey LaFarge, and Las Cafeteras.<br />
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<center><small>The Courettes;<br />
Las Cafeteras; Shadow Show</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Beat / Garage</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Courettes, Cupid's Carnival, Lindsey Buckingham, The Fratellis, Shadow Show, Triptides, David Menke, The Exbats, The Shadracks, The Tremolo Beer Gut, Ghost Woman, Night Beats, and The Routes.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Psychedelic / Beatlesque</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Tristen, Groovy Uncle, La Luz, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Taraka, Mickey Dolenz, La Femme, The Limiñanas, Tele Novella, Crowded House, Martina Topley-Bird, Heartless Bastards, Satellite Jockey, Caleb Landry Jones, Diamond Hands, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Gary Louris.<br />
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<center><small>La Luz; La Femme;<br />
Martina Topley-Bird; Art d'Ecco</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Classic Rock / Glam</font><font color="ffffff">!</font></b></center> Silver Synthetic, Reigning Sound, Tash Neal, DJ Williams + Tash Neal, Art d'Ecco, The Devils, Liz Phair, Neal Francis, Gloria, Midnight Sister, Liam Kazar, and Weyes Blood.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Alt-Roots</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Rhiannon Giddens + Francesco Turrisi, Robert Plant + Alison Krauss, Lera Lynn, Adia Victoria, Allison Russell, Joan Armatrading, Bedouine, Nicole Atkins, Kira Skov, The Breeders, The Secret Sisters, Della Mae, Theo Lawrence, Sierra Ferrell, Sharon Van Etten + Lucinda Williams.<br />
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<center><small>Nicole Atkins; Robert Finlay;<br />
Lady Blackbird; Steve Cropper;<br />
Delvon Lamar Organ Trio</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Blues</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Mr. Airplane Man, Buffalo Nichols, Madi Diaz, The Black Keys, Joanna Connor, Cedric Burnside, Avey Grouws Band, Robert Finley, Ghalia Volt, Eddie 9V, and Amythyst Kiah.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Soul</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Curtis Harding, Izo FitzRoy, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, Ruby Velle And The Soulphonics, Black Pumas, Lake Street Dive, PM Warson, The Secret Sisters, Aaron Frazer, Lady Blackbird, The Buttshakers, Thee Sacred Souls, Anderson East, Ben Pirani, and Steve Cropper.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Funk / Mutant Disco</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Bamboos, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, The Grease Traps, True Loves, St. Vincent, Redtenbacher's Funkestra, Joel Culpepper, Menahan Street Band, Cha Wa, George Porter Jr and Runnin' Pardners, Orgone, Emma-Jean Thackray, Lake Street Dive, Mndsgn, Cimafunk, Gizelle Smith, Art d'Ecco, Pond, and Khruangbin + Leon Bridges.<br />
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<center><small>Tony Allen; Altin Gün</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Africana</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band, Adrian Younge, Femi Kuti, Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman, Mdou Moctar, Funkwrench Blues + Bombino, and Nahawa Doumbia.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">World</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Orquesta Akokán, Cochemea, Altin Gün, El Michels Affair, and La Femme.<br />
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<center><small>We Are Lady Parts;<br />
Guerilla Toss;<br />
Django Django;<br />
Kae Tempest; K-OS</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Lady Parts, Sleater-Kinney, LIINES, Mujeres Podridas, KT Tunstall/DeepVally/Peaches, Taraka, Porvenir Oscuro, SASAMI, Deap Vally, Garbage, Du Blonde, Amyl and The Sniffers, Fake Fruit, Pom Poko, Gustaf, and Bachelor.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Alt-Rock</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Parquet Courts, Fashion Pimps And The Glamazons, White Denim, Habibi, Django Django, Martina Topley-Bird, Spoon, Gabriella Cohen, Deerhoof, Elvis Costello, Jane Weaver, CIVIC, St. Vincent, Guerilla Toss, and Superstate/Graham Coxon.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Electro</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Working Men's Club, Fatima Al Qadiri, Stats, and Marie Davidson.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Alt-Rap</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Bug, Kae Tempest, K-OS, Ty Segall + Denée Segall, The Allergies, She Drew The Gun, Common + Brittany Howard, Ceramic Dog + Marc Ribot, Moor Mother, Slimkid 3, and Flying Lotus.<br />
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<center><small>Ghost Funk Orchestra; Kandle;<br />
The Limiñanas; Elena Satine</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">Alt-Jazz</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Esperanza Spalding, Sons Of Kemet, The Lasso, and Terence Blanchard.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Cinerama / Soundtracks</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Nicholas Britell, Sndtrak, Tommy Guerrero, Menahan Street Band, Ghost Funk Orchestra, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, Gizelle Smith, Gloria, Roy And The Devil's Motorcycle, Kandle, Billie Eilish, The Tremolo Beer Gut, Alan Evans Trio, The Limiñanas, La Femme, Fay Hallam, The Coral, Delaney Davidson + Neil Finn, St. Vincent, Wax Tailor + Dave Gahan, Lera Lynn, Ludwig Goransson, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lady Parts, the cast of ENCANTO, Seatbelts + Elena Satine), Sparks + Adam Driver, and Jefferson Airplane <small>(Marcel Dettmann and Gabriel Mounsey Remix)</small>.<br />
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<center><small>Courtney Barnett; Janelle Monáe</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ccff33">RESIST!</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Stereo Total, John Fogerty, Garbage, Death From Above 1979, The Jack Moves, Mexican Institute Of Sound, Gizelle Smith, Chris Isaak, Courtney Barnett, Tune-Yards, Janelle Monáe, Adrian Younge, Ringo Starr, Angelique Kidjo, Chris St. Hilaire, Monophonics, and Vivien Goldman.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="FFFF00">Happy Holidays</font><font color="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Joel Paterson, The Pen Friend Club, and Blondie.<br />
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<center><h1><font color="FFFF00"><b>C O V E R</b></font><br />
<font color="ccff33">S O N G S</font><br />
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<center><h2><font color="ffffff">All the Best</font><br />
<font color="FFFF00">COVER VERSIONS</font><br />
<font color="ffffff">of the year!</font></h2></center><br />
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Music is the throughline of the human spirit.<br />
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Singing timeless songs in times of uncertainty brings us solace, offers out support, and bonds us in communion.<br />
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In (another) year that separated us from each other, sharing songs reaffirmed us as a people, honored our origins, and lit the way for the young.<br />
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There were an abundance of cover songs in 2021. Through them, we sought reflection, revelation, and renewal. Here’s a playlist of our mutual journey.<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">COVER SONGS 2021<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<small>List = <b>Original By</b> / <i>Cover Artist</i><br />
Songs are sequenced in the chronological order of the Originals.</small><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">1920s-'50s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>Traditional Hymn</b></font> / <i>Rhiannon Giddens + Francesco Turrisi</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Fats Waller</b></font> / <i>Archie Shepp</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Cole Porter</b></font> / <i>Tony Bennett</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal</b></font> / <i>Cat Power</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Woody Guthrie</b></font> / <i>The Secret Sisters</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Tampa Red</b></font> / <i>Ghalia Volt</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Big Joe Williams</b></font> / <i>The Black Keys</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Woody Guthrie</b></font> / <i>Liz Vice</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Lil’ Son Jackson</b></font> / <i>Alabama Slim</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Howlin’ Wolf</b></font> / <i>Tony Holiday + Watermelon Slim</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'60s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Cha Wa + Alvin Youngblood Hart</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Chantays</b></font> / <i>The C33s</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Henry Mancini</b></font> / <i>Messer Chups</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Lou Rawls/Sam Cooke</b></font> / <i>Lady Blackbird</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Pleasure Seekers</b></font> / <i>Greg Townson</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Jimmy Reed</b></font> / <i>Ronnie Wood + Mick Taylor</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Carolyn Wonderland</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Mamas And The Papas</b></font> / <i>Omar Apollo</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>James Brown</b></font> / <i>Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Ray Charles</b></font> / <i>PM Warson</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Nina Simone</b></font> / <i>Ledisi</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Liz Brady</b></font> / <i>Olivia Jean</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Female Species</b></font> / <i>La Luz</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Velvet Underground</b></font> / <i>Iggy Pop</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beach Boys</b></font> / <i>Brian Wilson</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Buffalo Springfield</b></font> / <i>Dylan LeBlanc</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Monkees</b></font> / <i>Micky Dolenz</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Monkees</b></font> / <i>The Queers</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Albert King</b></font> / <i>Harlis Sweetwater</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Delfonics</b></font> / <i>Paul Stanley's Soul Station</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Glen Campbell</b></font> / <i>Black Pumas</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Aretha Franklin</b></font> / <i>Jennifer Hudson</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Eddie Floyd</b></font> / <i>Matt Berninger</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>“Sesame Street” theme/Joe Raposo</b></font> / <i>Reid Jamieson</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Minnie Riperton</b></font> / <i>Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Joni Mitchell</b></font> / <i>Chelsea Wolfe</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Bob Corritore</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Eli "Paperboy" Reed</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b></font> / <i>Brad Marino</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Violet Orlandi</i> • <font color="ffbf00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>We Are KING</i>.<br />
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<center><small>Rhiannon Giddens; Black Pumas;<br />
The Coathangers; Angel Olsen</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'70s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Kandle</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Paul and Linda McCartney</b></font> / <i>Fernando Perdomo</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Badfinger</b></font> / <i>Susanna Hoffs + Aimee Mann</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Led Zeppelin</b></font> / <i>Dylan LeBlanc</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>T-Rex</b></font> / <i>The Kills</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Hound Dog Taylor</b></font> / <i>GA-20</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Stevie Wonder</b></font> / <i>Patti Smith</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>War</b></font> / <i>Los Lobos</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b></font> / <i>The Band Of Heathens</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Sly And The Family Stone</b></font> / <i>Dumpstaphunk</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Gordon Lightfoot</b></font> / <i>Le Ren + Buck Meek</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Gordon Lightfoot</b></font> / <i>Darling West</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>William DeVaughn</b></font> / <i>Orgone</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Billy Preston</b></font> / <i>A.J. Croce</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Hall And Oates</b></font> / <i>Lydia Hol</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Stevie Wonder</b></font> / <i>Jon Batiste</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>The Runaways</b></font> / <i>Wanda Jackson</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Elvis Costello And The Attractions</b></font> / <i>Juanes</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Iggy Pop</b></font> / <i>The Lovely Eggs</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>The Jam</b></font> / <i>Las Lenguas Muertas</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Kleenex</b></font> / <i>Habibi</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>The Cars</b></font> / <i>K-OS</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Donna Summer</b></font> / <i>Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs</i> • <font color="00cc00"><b>Wings</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'80s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="cc66ff"><b>John Lennon</b></font> / <i>Marilyn McCoo And Billy Davis Jr</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Blondie</b></font> / <i>The Coathangers</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Gang Of Four</b></font> / <i>Gail Ann Dorsey</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Boise Cover Band</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>X</b></font> / <i>Violet Grohl</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>X</b></font> / <i>Jesse Dayton</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Yoko Ono</b></font> / <i>Japanese Breakfast</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Cyre</b></font> / <i>Marc Collin</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Zapp</b></font> / <i>The Heritage Orchestra</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Laura Branigan</b></font> / <i>Angel Olsen</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Grace Jones</b></font> / <i>Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Men Without Hats</b></font> / <i>Angel Olsen</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Roxy Music</b></font> / <i>Peter Frampton Band</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Roxy Music</b></font> / <i>Angel Olsen</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Bruce Springsteen</b></font> / <i>King Hannah</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Chrissie Hynde</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Bruce Springsteen</b></font> / <i>Shakey Graves</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>The Cars</b></font> / <i>Bleachers</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>R.E.M.</b></font> / <i>Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Peter Gabriel</b></font> / <i>Lowland Hum</i> • <font color="cc66ff"><b>Pixies</b></font> / <i>A.A. Williams, and Tkay Maidza</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'90s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="ff8000"><b>The Gories</b></font> / <i>The Shivas</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Nirvana</b></font> / <i>The Dollyrots</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Bikini Kill</b></font> / <i>Mike Watt</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>R.E.M.</b></font> / <i>Lauren O'Connell</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>The Breeders</b></font> / <i>Tune-Yards</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Soundgarden</b></font> / <i>Brandi Carlile</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Bjork</b></font> / <i>Julia Jacklin</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Guided By Voices</b></font> / <i>Lauren O'Connell</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Radiohead</b></font> / <i>Julian Lennon + Nuno Bettencourt</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Mike Edison</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Dave Gahan</i> • <font color="ff8000"><b>Lucinda WIlliams</b></font> / <i>Robert Plant + Allison Krauss</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font color="ffffff">'00s, '10s, and '20s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font color="00ffbf"><b>Queens Of The Stone Age</b></font> / <i>The Vaccines</i> • <font color="00ffbf"><b>Tame Impala</b></font> / <i>The Wiggles</i> • <font color="00ffbf"><b>Fiona Apple</b></font> / <i>The Secret Sisters</i> • <font color="00ffbf"><b>Paul McCartney</b></font> / <i>Phoebe Bridgers</i> • <font color="00ffbf"><b>Paul McCartney</b></font> / <i>Josh Homme</i>.<br />
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<center><b>The Beatles,<br />
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<center><small><font color="9370D8">BEST REISSUES 2021<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFF00">•</font> <font color="FFFFFF">1950s</font> <font color="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records"</i></font> <small>(1952-’59)</small><br />
The L.A. label scorched the party with crucial artists like Lloyd Price, Little Richard, The Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke, Larry Williams, and Percy Mayfield (and Don And Dewey, not included here).<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Don Covay</b>, <i>"Hey There"</i></font> <small>(late-'50s)</small><br />
Don is loved for his mid-'60s Atlantic Soul sides, but here's a fine sampling of his early Rocker platters.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Nina Simone</b>, <i>"Nina Simone And Her Friends"</i></font> <small>(1959)</small><br />
In the dawn of her career, Nina alternates songs with her colleages Chris Connor and Carmen McCrae.<br />
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<center><small>Little Richard; Nina Simone;<br />
Dick Dale; The Temptations</small></center><br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="FFFFFF">•</font> <font color="FFFF00">1960s</font> <font color="FFFFFF">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Drifters</b>, <i>"We Gotta Sing! The Soul Years 1962-’71"</i></font><br />
Beyond their first wave of classic hits, The Drifters did many more stellar sides across the changing decade.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Dick Dale and his Del-Tones</b>, <i>"Wild Ideas"</i></font> <small>(1963)</small><br />
A collection of Dick's roaring Surf tunes from his prime era.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Enrique Torres + Les Baxter</b>, <i>"Joyas Musicales del Peru"</i></font> <small>(1964)</small><br />
Upbeat Peruvian romance melodies with lush 'Exotica' arrangements.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Temptations</b>, <i>"Emperors Of Soul: The Rarities"</i></font><br />
The Motown vaults yeild more treasures with these rare B-sides and alternate takes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Laura Nyro</b>, <i>"Go Find The Moon: The Audition Tape"</i></font> <small>(1966)</small><br />
In 20 minutes she nailed it: it was all already there, the songcraft, the voice, the lyrical ambition.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Female Species</b>, <i>"Tale Of My Lost Love"</i></font> <small>(1966 +)</small><br />
An unsung all-female Rock band gets a proper voerview, from their early Beat pop to their later country rock.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Who</b>, <i>"Sell Out"</i> (Super Deluxe)</font><br />
Theis edition unleashes all the goodies, expanding the 'radio jingle' concept album into a cornicopia of wondrous tunes and radio parodies.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>The Luv'd Ones</b>, <i>"Truth Gotta Stand"</i></font> <small>(1965-'67)</small><br />
Char Vinnedge led the all-female band from Beatlesque pop to storming Jimi distortion. This collection of all their work is a must have.<br />
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<center><small>Female Species; The Luv'd Ones;<br />
Sly And The Family Stone; Joni Mitchell</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Johnny Cash</b>, <i>"Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968"</i></font><br />
Johnny and June setting the seeds of Outlaw Country to come, with their protest anthems, Dylan covers, and family mass.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"It’s A Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records“</i></font> <small>(mid-'60s +)</small><br />
Soul is Soul, and this box set showcases how artists like Ray Barreto, Willie Colón, Joe Bataan, and Monguito Santamaria spread the sunshine, the vibes, and the parameters.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Summer of Soul"</i></font> <small>(rec. 1969)</small><br />
The Harlem Cultural Festival, now immortalized with Questlove's "Summer Of Soul" documentary, was graced by The Chambers Brothers, The Staple Singers, Ray Baretto, Nina Simone, and the mighty mighty Sly And The Family Stone.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Joni Mitchell</b>, <i>"Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)"</i></font><br />
The queen of poetic introspection, quicksilver guitar, and elastic genres began her quest with these first four remastered albums, abetted by a 1970 concert.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b>, <i>"Let It Be"</i></font> (rec. 1969)<br />
Forget the negative myths.<br />
All of rock history's narratives about these sessions are wrong, and this deluxe box set, a comprehensive companion book, and Peter jackson's acclaimed 6-hour documentary "<i>Get Back</i>" have now set all the records straight.<br />
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<center><small>Aretha Franklin</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Beach Boys</b>, <i>"Feel Flows: The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971"</i></font><br />
When he got as ambitious as The Beatles in 1967 (the shelved "<i>Smile</i>" album), The Beach Boys initially fought Brian Wilson, damaging his spirit and esteem. Ironically, they proved him right by embracing looser experiments, cosmic consciousness, and continuous remakes of that material.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b>, <i>"Carnegie Hall 1970"</i></font><br />
An intimate solo acoustic show away from CSNY and Crazy Horse.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Roberta Flack</b>, <i>"First Take"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
The best Soul Jazz vocalist staked her claim with this classic album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Aretha Franklin</b>, <i>"ARETHA"</i></font> <small>(1956-2015)</small><br />
The first box set to encompass Aretha's entire career, from the early Gospel sessions to her triumphant performace at the White House.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Erma Franklin</b>, <i>"Brunswick Essentials"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
Unfairly overshadowed by her sister Aretha, Erma had many fine Rock'n'Soul sides of her own.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>John Lennon</b>, <i>"Plastic Ono Band"</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
John's cathartic break from The Beatles is still one of Rock's bravest recordings, both a raw folk confessional and a grungey punk bruiser.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>George Harrison</b>, <i>"All Things Must Pass"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
One of the best double-albums ever made, remastered with a healthy addition of unreleased demos.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir</b>, <i>"I Shall Wear A Crown"</i></font> <small>(1971-'78)</small><br />
'70s Gospel was especially soulful and funky, and here's a fine example of that.<br />
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<center><small>Neil Young; Roberta Flack;<br />
Eddie Hazel; Elvis Costello</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Doors</b>, <i>"L.A. Woman"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
The Door's final album as a quartet, with copious alternate takes and song sketches.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>O.V. Wright</b>, <i>"A Nickel And A Nail"</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
Besides Al Green, Hi Records had grand artists like the funky sass of Ann Peebles and the bluesy soul of O.V. Wright.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Brainticket</b>, <i>"1971 Recording Session"</i></font><br />
The multiculti Prog band, a more devious balance to Hawkwind, deserve all the limelight they can get.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b>, <i>"Vol. 4"</i></font><br />
The current remastering campaign of their catalog includes an excellent remastering of this classic album, both beautiful and brutish.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Tony Joe White</b>, <i>"Smoke From The Chimney"</i></font><br />
A trove of unreleased demos from the master of Swamp Pop.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Muddy Waters</b>, <i>"The Montreux Years"</i></font> <small>(1972, '74, '77)</small><br />
Muddy experienced a career renaissance after his counterculture festivals dates that carried him through the decade.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Can</b>, <i>"Live In Stuttgart 1975”</i></font><br />
Losing their singer, the motorik band returned to their intense and entrancing freeform improvs.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Experience Unlimited</b>, <i>"Free Yourself”</i></font> <small>(1977)</small><br />
Before E.U. became a major '80s GoGo Funk band, they debuted here as a righteous Funk prog force with Fusion chops and Rock fury.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Eddie Hazel</b>, <i>"Games, Dames, And Guitar Thangs"</i></font> <small>(1977)</small><br />
The Jimi Hendrix of Funkadelic, in his only solo album, nailed it with funtastic originals, and legendary covers of The Beatles' "<i>I Want You</i>" and The Mamas And The Papas' "<i>California Dreamin'</i>".<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Elvis Costello And The Attractions</b>, <i>"Armed Forces"</i></font> <small>(1979)</small><br />
The Angry Young Punk was among the most literate, as the scathing anti-Fascist commentary, slippery chord changes, and shrewd puns in this super deluxe box set proves.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk And The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984"</i></font><br />
Concurrent with Mutant Disco in the US, the UK deconstructed dance music into an art soundscape that anticipated TechnoFunk and Industrial.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Bush Tetras</b>, <i>"Rhythm And Paranoia: The Best Of"</i></font> <small>(early-'80s)</small><br />
As part of that NYC scene, this PunkFunk combo married snotty swagger with bounding grooves, influencing everone from Romeo Void to Sonic Youth.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Bob Dylan</b>, <i>"Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 / 1980-1985"</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
Bob's most maligned period gets another chance, with stripped down alternate takes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>The Delmonas</b>, <i>"Hello, We Love You! The Big Beat EPs"</i></font> <small>(late-'80s)</small><br />
The female Garage band's work, before they morphed into Thee Headcoatees.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Joe Strummer</b>, <i>"Assembly"</i></font> <small>(1986-'02)</small><br />
A synopsis of the Clash leader's solo career, as compiled for Dhani Harrison's relaunched Dark Horse label.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Nirvana</b>, <i>"Nevermind"</i></font> <small>(1991)</small><br />
This 30th anniversary bonanza includes four live concert recordings, charting the band's evolution from indie outsiders to world conquerors across four months.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>L7</b>, <i>"Wargasm: The Slash Years 1992-1997"</i></font><br />
One of the greatest and most crucial grunge bands (then and now) gets their propers with this incendiary audit.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>"Brilliant Adventures (1992-2001)"</i></font><br />
This box set documents David's restless style changes -often analogous to his late-'70s breakthroughs- with dance, art-rock, and ambient.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ffbf00"><b>Buena Vista Social Club</b>, <i>"Buena Vista Social Club"</i></font> <small>(1997)</small><br />
When Ry Cooder recorded the veterans of the isolated Cuban music scene as an inpromptu group, they became a sensation triumphing on world tours.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="ff8000"><b>Supergrass</b>, <i>"In It For The Money"</i></font> <small>(1997)</small><br />
What do you do when you make your "<i>Abbey Road</i>" on your second album and everybody slept on it? Supergrass kept advancing, while you rubes can just catch up now.<br />
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<center><small>Sharon Jones; Goat</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Prince</b>, <i>"Welcome 2 America"</i></font> <small>(rec. 2010)</small><br />
Prince's unreleased 2010 album sees official release.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="9933ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at the Apollo"</i></font> <small>(rec. 2014)</small><br />
Sharon Jones brought her label mates to the legendary Apollo for a classic-style revue. How lucky that audience was to experience Sharon and The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, Antibalas, Menahan Street Band, and The Budos Band, along with worthy stalwarts like Saun + Starr, Naomie Shelton, and The Como Mamas.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font color="cc66ff"><b>Goat</b>, <i>"Headsoup"</i></font> <small>(2012-'18)</small><br />
The mysterious collective radiates somewhere between AfroBeat and Psyche Prog. This collection of rarities provides an alternate map.<br />
<small>(The title is a pun on The Rolling Stones' "<i>Goats Head Soup</i>" album.)</small><br />
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Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-31595540290242104712022-01-16T18:54:00.017-08:002024-01-19T16:50:01.642-08:00BEST COMICS: 2021<br />
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<font size="2"><font color="ffffff">★</font></font> <a href="#C2a">Young Readers</a><br />
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<font size="4"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C9">Rest In Power</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Echolands</b></font>,<br />
<i>by J.H. Williams and Haden Blackman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Legendary from their definitive run of <i>Batwoman</i>, Williams and Haden have returned from exile on their own terms with their own creator-owned material.<br />
Have your mind blown and quality standards raised with this dystopian future, in which mash-ups of all genres (and art styles) run wildly fluid.<br />
▶ <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/batwoman-elegy-new-edition/9781401298869" target="_blank">Batwoman</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Department Of Truth</b></font>,<br />
<i>by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
When all conspiracy stores turn out to be true, who and what can you trust?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Monstress</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Bestselling author Marjorie Liu and spectacular artist Sana Takeda take time and care to steadily unwind this epic gothic fantasy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Ascender</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen</i><font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The sequel to the acclaimed <i>Descender</i> series, about a young root struggling with survival and identity, now concludes after 18 issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Gideon Falls</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
After 27 issues, the series about the small town with dark secrets<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/07/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-20-years-of.html" target="_blank">></a> reaches its finale.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Compass</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Robert Mackenzie and Dave Walker, and Justin Greenwood</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 14th century Iranian adventurer kicks knowledge and ass in her journeys around the globe.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Hey Kids! Comics!</b></font>, Vol. 2,<br />
<i>by Howard Chaykin</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
More trademark black comedy from Howard Chaykin (<i>American Flagg</i>, <i>Black Kiss</i>) in his tell-all/kiss-off/love-letter to the medium he still begrudgingly loves, this time with a 6-issue series hailing young creators.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Daredevil</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Chip Zdarsky (w), with Marco Checchetto, Mike Hawthorne, and Adriano Di Benedetto (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For three years, artist Chip Zdarksy (<i>Sex Criminals</i>) has been dazzling with his writing chops, bringing a new golden era to Hell's Kitchen.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Widow</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kelly Thompson, Elena Casagrande, and Rafael de Latorre</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One of the best modern writers going, Kelly Thompson redefined <i>Captain Marvel</i> and <i>Hawkeye</i> (into the versions which we now see onscreen) and now does a fresh take on Natasha Romanoff.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Demon Days: Mariko</b></font><br />
and <font color="00cc00"><b>Demon Days: Cursed Web</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Peach Momoko, Zack Davisson, and Ariana Maher</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Writer/artist Peach Momoko recasts Marvel history as Fantasy fairy tales.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Beta Ray Bill</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Daniel Warren Johnson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A 5-issue mini-series starring Thor's alien successor.<br />
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Marvel is doing a splendid job making movies between the movies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>STAR WARS</b></font>, Vol. II<br />
<i>by Charles Soule and Ramon Rosanas</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For 75 issues, Volume I of this series did excellent arcs filling in the mysteries between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
Now it has relaunched from #1, unveiling dream movies between THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>DARTH VADER</b></font>, Vol. II<br />
<i>by Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In complete parallel with these new stories of the rebels is a relaunch telling the Dark Lord's side of the same events, and how they overlap.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>STAR WARS: Doctor Aphra</b></font>, Vol. II<br />
<i>by Alyssa Wong, Minkyu Jung, and Victor Olazaba</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The misadventures of everyone's favorite anti-Indiana Jones continue during the period between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
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Forget the corporation, support the creators.<a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-comics-2020.html#C2" target="_blank">></a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Far Sector</b></font>,<br />
<i>by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Bestselling afrofuturist author N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell (<i>Naomi</i>, <i>The Incredible Hadia Green</i> webcomic<a href="https://immortalnadia.tumblr.com/post/128114169495" target="_blank">></a>) spread their 12-issue Green Lantern arc across 20 months, and it was worth all the wait.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Other History Of The DC Universe</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Andrea Cucchi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Acclaimed writer/director John Ridley (<i>12 YEARS A SLAVE</i>, '<i>American Crime</i>' show) witnesses the DC history from the point-of-view of once marginalized characters.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Nubia And The Amazons</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stephanie Williams, Vita Ayala, and Alitha Martinez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Wonder Woman's sister takes the arena and the spotlight.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Justice League</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Bendis almost single-handedly saved and revitalized Marvel in the the 2000s.<br />
His mature and cinematic comics have precisely blueprinted the TV series interpretations, from '<i>Daredevil</i>' and '<i>Jessica Jones</i>' to '<i>Echo</i>' and '<i>Moon Knight</i>', and he co-invented Miles Morales along the way.<br />
Now he's working to do the same for DC, from <i>Superman</i> to the premiere team.<br />
<small>(Already, his DC character <i>Naomi</i> will now helm a live-action TV series.)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Batman: The Imposter</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mattson Tomlin and Andrea Sorrentino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A moody and intense 3 issue mini-series by the screenwriter of THE BATMAN <small>(2022)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Catwoman: Lonely City</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cliff Chiang</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Artist Cliff Chiang (<i>Wonder Woman</i>, <i>Paper Girls</i>) essentially rethinks THE DARK KNIGHT RISES <small>(2012)</small> through a scenario told from Selina Kyle's outlook.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Future State:<br />
Kara Zor-El: Superwoman</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marguerite Bennett and Marguerite Sauvage</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
During the <i>Future State</i> event series, this 2 issue special -with art by the always excellent Marguerite Sauvage- lets Kara soar.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Swamp Thing</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ram V and Mike Perkins</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A new host for the elemental force, taking on the storied past and a new future with fresh perspective. (10 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Icon And Rocket: Season 1</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Reginald Hudlin and Doug Braithwaite</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Filmmaker Reginald Hudlin reinvigorates the '90s Milestone counterpart to Superman.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Barbalien - Red Planet</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Tate Brombal and Jeff Lemire (w), and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A spin-off from Jeff Lemire's superheroes series <i>Black Hammer</i> about a very different riposte to the Martian Manhunter.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Black Hammer Reborn</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lamire, Caitlin Yarsky, and Ande Parks</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A new sequel series, set twenty years into a changed future.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Black Hammer: Visions</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
<i>Black Hammer</i>, akin to similar series <i>Kingdom Come</i> and <i>Astro City</i>, has been an alternate universe deconstruction of superheroes. Fittingly, it gets deconstructed itself here in retold takes by guest-star creators Patton Oswalt, Geoff Johns, Chip Zdarksy, Mariko Tamaki, Kelly Thompson, Cecil Castellucci, and Scott Snyder.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Colonel Weird Cosmagog</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Perhaps the hardest working writer in the comics biz (or at least busiest), Lemire goes full-on Psyche-Fi in another <i>Black Hammer</i> spin-off about the origins of his cosmic adventurer.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Finder: Chase The Lady</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Carla Speed McNeil</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
McNeil continues to expand from her indie confessional roots with her full-tilt CyberFantasy graphic novel.<br />
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In a just universe, Karen Berger would be the one running DC Comics instead of the Corps. She helmed the original Vertigo Comics, the standard which all current Indie companies are imitating, and now she has her own imprint of creator-owned titles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Post York</b></font>,<br />
<i>by James Romberger</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
A standalone graphic novel following the daily routines of a cat owner navigating NYC after the polar ice caps have melted.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Everything</b></font> Vol. 2,<br />
<i>by Christopher Cantwell and I.N.J. Culbard</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The show creator of ‘<i>Halt And Catch Fire</i>’ charts a small town megastore's dramas as a metaphor for American consumerism.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>She Could Fly</b></font> Vol. 3,<br />
<i>by Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Also by Cantwell, this direct-to-graphic-novel volume finds our soaring hero getting her balance and her direction.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Star Trek: Year Five</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jackson Lanzing and Stephen Thompson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
IDW's take on what a Fifth season of the Original Series might have been like comes to conclusion.<br />
➤ see also: <a href="https://www.startrekcontinues.com/" target="_blank">Star Trek Continues</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Star Trek: Mirror War</b></font>,<br />
<i>by David Tipton, Scott Tipton, and Gavin Smith</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
'<i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>' didn't get to do any Mirror Universe episodes, and this mini-series fixes that. (3 issues. There's also a single issue spin-off about mirror Data.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>The Many Deaths Of Laila Star</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ram V and Filipe Andrade</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Death is sentenced to live a life as a young woman in Mumbai. (5 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Proctor Valley Road</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Grant Morrison and Alex Child (w), and Naomi Franquiz (a)</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A horror series from star writer Grant Morrison, where four '70s teen girls careen through a haunted backwoods byway. (5 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Firefly</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Grek Pak, Lalit Kumar Sharma, and Daniel Bayliss</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The continuing all-new adventures of the beloved SciFi TV series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Abbott 1973</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A journalist with a secret investigates the eldritch forces surrrounding a crucial election.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>I Walk With Monsters</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Paul Cornell and Sally Cantirino</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A couple stalks monsters like monsters, but the past comes for them. (6 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Second Coming: Only Begotten Son</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Mark Russell, Richard Pace, and Leonard Kirk</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Comics' most fierce satirist Mark Russell (<i>Prez</i>, <i>Billionaire Island</i>) returns with the series Vertigo was too afraid to print; what if an ersatz Superman was roomates with a resurrected Jesus? (6 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>My Bad Mark</b></font>,<br />
<i>by James Russell and Bryce Ingman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A superhero spoof in the style of the Silver Age.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Alice In Leatherland</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two women explore sensuality, personal growth, and creative flow in San Francisco. (6 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Everfrost</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ryan Lindsay and Sami Kivela Van</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Epic AfroFantasy in the DUNE style. (4 issues).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Godkiller: Tomorrow’s Ashes</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Matteo Pizzolo and Anna Wieszczyk</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The third volume in the sexy genrepunked series. (3 issues)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Barbarella</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sarah Hoyt and Madibek Musabekov</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
New adventures of the galaxy's foremost sex-positive<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement" target="_blank">></a> adventurer.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>VAMPIRELLA</b></font> #3, Facsimile Edition,<br />
<i>by many, including Billy Graham, Forrest J. Ackerman, Nicola Cuti, and Tom Sutton</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An exact reproduction of the January 1970 magazine issue, ads and all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>VAMPIRELLA</b></font> #30, Facsimile Edition<br />
<i>by many, including Steve Skeates, Bill DuBray, Richard Corben, and the amazing Jose González</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An exact reproduction of the January 1974 magazine issue, ads and all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>After The Rain</b></font>,<br />
<i>by John Jennings and David Brame</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On The Road", an AfroFantasy tale of magical realism and identity.<br />
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<center><b><i><font color="ffbf00">"Hey, Kids!</font> <font color="ffe300">Comics!"</font></i></b></center><br />
From the '30s to the '80s, comics unified all of the kids in the world.<br />
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Comics spinner racks were omnipresent in every grocery, newstand, and drugstore, a world of dreams in color for small change. But after 50 years, this changed.<br />
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As the fans grew older, comics grew more mature (and gradually more expensive). In the early-'80s, comics disappeared from common spaces to be sold only in individual comic stores. This was the best and worst thing that could have happened: the select stores became a lab for the medium to grow up with adult fans, but this Comics Renaissance left all the kids behind with no entry point. Now that three decades have passed, the young have moved on to games and streaming, seeing superheroes nowadays only in films that are meant for those longtime adult readers.<br />
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Roy Thomas once said, "The Golden Age of Comics is <b>8</b>."<br />
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Comics should still be a fun spark for kids. Now, with the spectacular success of <b>Raina Telgemeier</b>'s books, various publishers are finally figuring this out. A wide movement to provide more all-ages comics has risen. From single comics to trade paperbacks, there are many new entry points for young readers to join in and open up their imaginations.<br />
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IDW prints Star Wars adventures geared especially for young readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Star Wars Adventures</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various creators</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Short, fun tales about characters from every era of the films and TV shows.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Star Wars: Beware Vader’s Castle</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cavan Scott with multiple artists</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This graphic novel reprints all of the previous story arcs about Darth's secret castle on Mustofar.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Stranger Things: The Tomb Of Ybwen</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Grek Pak and Diego Galindo</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Naturally, the '80s gang gets their own Indiana Jones/GOONIES-style adventure (3 issues).<br />
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<font color="ffbf00">N O V E L S :</font> <font color="ffffff">★</font></h1></center><br />
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<center><font size="2"><font color="#ffffff">★ ★ ★</font></font> <font size="6"><font color="ffffff">Young Readers</font></font> <font size="2"><font color="#ffffff">★ ★ ★</font></font></center><br />
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H O U S E</b></font></center><br />
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The publishing giant partnered with DC Comics for the <i>Step Into Reading</i> series, with entry level books for new readers. (4-6)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Wonder Woman: Universal Kindness</b></font><br />
<i>by Tennant Redbank and Pernille Orum</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Batman: Book Crooks</b></font>,<br />
<i>by J J Marlee and Francesco Legramandi</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Superhero Halloween!</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rachel Chlebowski and Red Central Ltd.</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Raya And The Last Dragon:<br />
The Graphic Novel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alessandro Ferrari, with Schmidt, Florean, Parisis, and Di Lorenzo</i> (Scholastic/Graphix) <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A comics adaption of the acclaimed 2021 animated film.<br />
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They also publish <i>Screen Comix</i>, books which combine film stills with word balloons to make comic adaptations of entire films. (8-12)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Star Wars: The Mandalorian</b></font> #1<br />
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The first four episodes of Season 1, featuring 'Baby Yoda'.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>A B R A M S /<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Our Little Kitchen</b></font>,<br />
<i>art by Jillian Tamaki</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
How preparing a group feast pulls a neighborhood together.<br />
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Abrams also publishes entry level books about Marvel Comics heroes for starting readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Incredible Hulk:<br />
My Mighty Marvel First Book</b></font>,<br />
<i>art by Sal Buscema</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Iron Man:<br />
My Mighty Marvel First Book</b></font>,<br />
<i>by art by John Romita Jr and Bob Layton</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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A R C H<br />
B O O K S</b></font></center><br />
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Stone Arch is partnering with DC Comics to create young reader books based on the Bruce Timm-era cartoon shows.<br />
(They also do the <i>"BATMAN and Scooby-Doo"</i> mystery books and the <i>"DC Superhero Fairy Tales"</i> books.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Super Hero Adventures:<br />
BATGIRL and the Queen of Green</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Laurie S. Sutton and Leonel Castellani</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>DC Super Hero Adventures:<br />
BATMAN and the Morphing Movie Star</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Steele and Gregg Schigiel</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>DC Super Hero Adventures:<br />
SUPERMAN and the Big Bounty</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Steele and Leonel Castellani</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>DC Super Hero Adventures:<br />
SUPERGIRL and the Man of Metal</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Laurie S. Sutton and Gregg Schigiel</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Little Lulu</b></font> Vol. 3,<br />
<i>by John Stanley</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Reprints of the timeless series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>HILDA: <br />
The Wilderness Stories</b></font>, Vol. 1,<br />
<i>by Luke Pearson</i> <font color="00ccff">____</font> ⇧<br />
In synch with the hit Netflix cartoon adaption, a reprint of the first two HILDA books, "<i>Hilda and the Troll!</i>" and "<i>Hilda and the Midnight Giant!</i>", in one volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>HICOTEA:<br />
A Nightlights Story</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lorena Alvarez</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
(Middle School)<br />
The sequel to <i>Nightlights</i>, described as "Raina Telgemeier meets Miyazaki with a Latin American twist". Win win win.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Super Sleepy Bedtime Stories</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ursula Burton and Jeff Shultz</i><br />
<small>(Binge Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Done in the classic Harvey Comics style, Super Sleepy lullibies kids to dreamland with her tales.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Where Are You, Leopold</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michel-Yves Schmitt and Vincent Caut</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
When Leo learns he can turn invisible, his friends' world goes inside-out.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Young Leonardo</b></font>,<br />
<i>by William Augel and Benjamin Croze</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A funny 'history' of Leonardo Da Vinci as a kid.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Barb The Last Berzerker</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson</i><br />
<small>(Simon And Schuster)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Sword And Sorcery-style comedy for kids. Who says Conan and Red Sonja should have all the fun?<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>PEANUTS</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Charles Schulz</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Collections of classic "<i>Peanuts</i>" comics strips, grouped by character: Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Lucy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>The Girl From The Sea</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Molly Ostertag</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The celebrated author/artist (the "<i>Witch Boy</i>" trilogy) brings us an island teen and the mermaid she falls for.<br />
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Scholastic has partnered with <i>Marvel Comics</i> to create Young Adult entry books for some of their young modern heroes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Miles Morales: Shock Waves</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon and Geoffo</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The star of the universally-loved SPIDER-VERSE <small>(2018)</small> animated movie solves a geopolitical mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nadia Shammas And Nabi H Ali</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Soon to have her own live-action show, everyone's favorite stretchy teen braves New Jersey and High School.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Shuri: The Vanished</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nic Stone</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Black Panther's sister brings the brains and the bravery.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>D A R K<br />
H O R S E</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Gert And The Sacred Stones</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Marco Rocchi and Francesca Carita</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A Fantasy tale where a teen girl becomes a brave adventurer and a deeper person.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>S P A R K N O T E S</b></font></center><br />
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The <i>“No Fear Shakespeare”</i> series matches the Bard’s words to comics panels (ages 12-15).<br />
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➤ <a href="https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/" target="_blank">SparkNotes</a> site<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>O N I<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Dragon Racer</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joey Weiser</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In this sequel to the book <i>Ghost Hog</i>, animal race car drivers team together to compete with a dragon for the finish line.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Pax Sampson: The Cookout</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rashad Doucet and Jason Reeves</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
His family on a Fantasy planet are all superheroes, but Pax just wants to become an excellent chef.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Star Beasts</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A funny animal parallel to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, where a puppy joins a motley space crew to save the planet.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Cheer Up: Love And Pompoms</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A lesbian teen and a trans girl brave High School with their friendship in this upbeat tale.<br />
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S E C O N D</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Adventure Zone</b></font>, Vol. 4<br />
<i>by Clint McElroy and Carey Pietsch</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The bestselling series continues as our Relic rescuers search for a magic stone that causes calamity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Astronaut Academy, Vol. 3: Splashdown!</b></font><br />
<i>by Dave Roman</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Summer vacation finds the space schoolers on Beach Planet.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>Jukebox</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nidhi Chanani</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Chanani ("<i>Pashmina</i>") crafts a time-traveling journey through music history when two girls find a magic jukebox.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>Lucy In The Sky</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Inspired by classic Beatles albums, Lucy forms her own band.<br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1967-esque.html" target="_blank">BEATLESQUE Songs: 1967-esque</a>, with Massive
Music Player!<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>No One Returns From The Forest</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Robin Robinson</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two unlike goblin sisters learn to meet each other in the middle during a rescue quest.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>SCIENCE COMICS:<br />
Rocks And Minerals: Geology From Caverns To The Cosmos</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Andy Hirsch</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The ongoing <i>Science Comics</i> cover different subjects with wit and exploits.<br />
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<center><font color="ffbf00"><b>LITTLE<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="ffcc99"><b>GOLDIE VANCE:<br />
The Hocus-Pocus Hoax</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Lilliam Rivera and Elle Power</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The High School sleuth scouts through her second mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="e67300"><b>HARRIET TUBMAN:<br />
Toward Freedom</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Whit Taylor and Kazimir Lee</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The true story of how Harriett escaped slavery, and then formed the Underground Railroad system to liberate others.<br />
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Resources:<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.comicshoplocator.com/" target="_blank">Comic Shop Locator</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://bookshop.org/" target="_blank">BookShop.org</a><br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.kidscomics.com" target="_blank">Kidscomics.com</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/" target="_blank">School Library Journal: Good Comics For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/12/20/21029548/best-comics-for-kids-graphic-novels" target="_blank">50 Best Comics + Graphic Novels For Kids</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com" target="_blank">The Big Blog Of Kids' Comics!</a><br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://www.europecomics.com/comics-for-children/" target="_blank">European Comics For Children</a><br />
<font color="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens" target="_blank">13 Great Webcomics For Kids and Teens</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>RUN</b></font>, Vol. 1<br />
<i>by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (w), and Nate Powell and L Fury (a)</i><br />
<small>(Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Following the globally acclaimed <i>MARCH</i> trilogy, this sequel (written before Lewis' death) continues the true story of the Civil Rights activist who became a Congressman.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>WAKE:<br />
The Hidden History Of Women-Led Slave Revolts</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez</i><br />
<small>(Particular)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Hall corrects history, with new research detailing the many revolts against slavery led by women.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BETTER ANGELS</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeff Jensen and George Schall</i><br />
<small>(Boom)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The true story of the first female detective, who foiled the first attempt on President Lincoln's life.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ACROSS THE TRACKS:<br />
Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson</i><br />
<small>(Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
When the African-Americans in a 1921 Oklahoma town began to prosper, the forces of bigotry wiped them out. An expose of the infamous true event.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY:<br />
A Graphic Novel History</b></font>,<br />
<i>by David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson</i><br />
<small>(Ten Speed Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An overview through the '60s and '70s of the legendary activist group.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>MUHAMMAD ALI,<br />
Kinshasa 1974</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jean-Davide Morvan, Abbas, and Rafael Ortiz</i><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The Ali-Frazier fight brought the focus of the world to the African nation of Zaire.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>ORWELL</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Pierre Christin and Sebastien Verdier</i><br />
<small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A biography of the fascinating life of iconclast author George Orwell.<br />
➤ <a href="https://selfmadehero.com" target="_blank">SelfMadeHero.com</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>1984:<br />
The Graphic Novel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by George Orwell and Fido Nesti</i><br />
<small>(Mariner Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
An adapatation of Orwell's timeless book, the most important dystopian warning and anti-Fascist allegory ever written.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>INCREDIBLE NELLIE BLY</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Luciana Cimino and Sergio Algozzino</i><br />
<small>(Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The true story of the pioneering feminist activist and investigator.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>FOR JUSTICE:<br />
The Serge And Beate Klarsfeld Story</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Pascal Bresson and Sylvain Dorange</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The French couple who have hunted down Nazis across five decades.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ON TYRANNY:<br />
20 Lessons From The Twentieth Century</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Timothy Snyder and Nora King</i><br />
<small>(Ten Speed Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A New York Times bestseller, this vital book used history to warn us of all present dangers of social oppression.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BILLIONAIRES:<br />
The Lives Of The Rich And Powerful</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Darryl Cunningham</i><br />
<small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A journalistic expose of how Bezos, Murdoch, and the Koch brothers misuse their wealth to corrupt political power.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>FAULT LINES IN THE CONSTITUTION</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson</i><br />
<small>(First Second/World Citizen Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The Constitution has flaws that still presently endanger democracy, such as allowing gerrymandering or gaming the Electoral College over the actual popular vote.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>WHAT UNITES US:<br />
The Graphic Novel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner (w), and Tim Foley (a)</i><br />
<small>(First Second/World Citizen Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A visual adaptation of journalist Dan Rather's bestselling book of essays on American unity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Ian Rosenberg and Michael Cavallaro</i><br />
<small>(First Second/World Citizen Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Using ten Supreme Court cases, the authors define what free speech actually means, and how crucial it is to maintain true freedom.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>THE WAITING</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim</i><br />
<small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Gendry-Kim (<i>Grass</i>) dramatizes the schism caused to families by the imposed division of post-War Korea.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alison Bechdel</i><br />
<small>(Mariner Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Bechdel (<i>Fun House</i>, <i>Are You My Mother?</i>) resolves her life-long fitness mania with her realizations about true fortitude.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>GIRLSPLAINING:<br />
A (Sorta) memoir </b></font>,<br />
<i>by Katja Klengel</i><br />
<small>(Archaia Studios)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Klengel (<i>Kid Gloves</i>, <i>Waves</i>) tackles all the mixed messages and earned wisdoms about sexual identity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>RED ROCK BABY CANDY</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Shira Spector</i><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Spector recalls a decade of pregnancy attempts and family loss conveyed in cascading emotional styles from ink drawings to vivid painting.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>ARTEMISIA</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Nathalie Ferlut and Tamia Baudoin</i><br />
<small>(Beehive Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Women weren't allowed to paint during the Renaissance, or to legally fight back against assailants, but Artemisia Gentileschi did. And won the test of time.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>BRONTE</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Manuela Santoni</i><br />
<small>(Graphic Universe)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
How the three Bronte sisters, using male pseudonyms, upended and integrated literature.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BUNUEL<br />
In The Labyrinth Of Turtles</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Fermin Solis</i><br />
<small>(Selfmadehero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In a creative crisis, Bunuel finds his way intuitively to become the major filmmaker we remember.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>DIEGO RIVERA</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Francisco de la Mora and Jose Luis Pescador</i><br />
<small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<a href="https://selfmadehero.com/books/graphic-biography" target="_blank">SelfMadeHero</a> creates comics biographies of timeless creators, told in their own creative styles and methods.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Strange Death Of ALEX RAYMOND</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh</i><br />
<small>(Living The Line)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A metatextual masterwork or mess? Yes, and worth the trip.<br />
Sim (<i>Cerebus</i>) traces the evolution of naturalistic art in comics using many of its greatest artists along the way, while also exploring every richochet rabbit hole and surreal tangent in an almost cubist narrative.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>WOMEN DISCOVERERS:<br />
Top Women In Science</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Christell Pecout and Marie Moinard</i><br />
<small>(NBM)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Bios of 20 great scientists across all branches who advanced our knowledge.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>TWILIGHT MAN:<br />
Rod Serling and the Birth of Television</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Koren Shadmi</i><br />
<small>(Life Drawn)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Serling was the original Angry Young Man playwright who challenged all the social boundaries of early Television with truth, humanity, and imagination, and bore the scars for it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>BEATNIK BUENOS AIRES</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Diego Arandojo and Facundo Percio</i><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
How the cultural scene exploded open by the legendary Beat authors transformed 1963 Argentina.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MORRISON HOTEL</b></font><br />
<i>by Leah Moore and Danijel Zezelj</i><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Leah Moore (<i>Albion</i>, <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>) and 11 guest artists tell stories about the band The Doors in this mosaic anthology.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>MPLS Sound</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Joseph Illidge and Hannibal Tabu</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Prince's global success with the "<i>1999</i>" and "<i>Purple Rain</i>" albums opened up the 'Minneapolis Sound' of synthfunk to all, and this fictional band's tale personifies it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>DJELIYA</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Juni Ba</i><br />
<small>(TKO Presents)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A Fantasy adventure based on West African folklore from a Senagal creator.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MALIKA, Warrior Queen</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Roye Okupe and Chima Kalu</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An historical fantasy by an all-Nigerian creative team.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>CYCLOPEDIA EXOTICA</b></font>,<br /><i>by Aminder Dhaliwal</i><br />
<small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Dhaliwal (<i>Woman World</i>) weaves metaphors about 'otherness' in a dominant society, and how it is programmed and exploited.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>LAST BORN</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Patrick Meaney and Eric Zawadzki</i><br />
<small>(Black Mask)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
She crosses all of time, trying to save humanity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>SUPERSTATE</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Graham Coxon and Hellen Mullane (w), and Alex Lakanadel (a)</i><br />
<small>(Z2/Simon And Schuster)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An anthology of tales about a classist planet-state, and the hopes of those who want to topple it.<br />
Co-writer Graham Coxon (guitarist for Blur) has created a companion soundtrack album for the book.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>GRASS OF PARNASSUS</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen</i><br />
<small>(Adhouse Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
When a space colony starts malfunctioning, a crazed potpourri of characters goes ballistic. Very <i>Metal Hurlant</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>CELESTIA</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Manuele Fior</i><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two telepaths from a remote island trek to the mysterious mainland, eking out a future for all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MONSTERS</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Barry Windsor-Smith</i><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The lauded illustrator returns with a monstrous confectionary of etching-esque cartooning, somewhere between EC Comics and Sergius Hruby.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Tono Monogatari</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Shigeru Mizuki</i><br />
<small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The Japanese ghost folklore tome interpreted through graphic storytelling.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BLADE RUNNER: Origins</b></font>, Vol. 1 and 2,<br />
<i>by K. Perkins, Mellow Brown, and Mike Johnson</i><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An origin story for the 'Blade Runners', a task force enlisted to hunt down rogue replicants.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>BUCKAROO BANZAI<br />
Against The World Crime League</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Earl Mac Rauch</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The end of the cult film BUCKAROO BANZAI Across The Eighth Dimension <small>(1984)</small> promised a sequel. It finally arrives in this prose novel follow-up by the original screenwriter, a Doc Savage-meets-Samurai cyber-pulp adventure.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <b><font color="00cc00">EC ARCHIVES:</font></b><br />
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The remastered Hardcover reprints of EC Comics began winding up, printing the final titles of the line.<br />
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<b><font color="00ffbf">Frontline Combat</font>, Vol. 3<br />
<font color="00cc00">Shock Illustrated</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Crime Illustrated</font><br />
<font color="00cc00">M D</font></b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
EC Comics invented comics for adults in the early-'50s, and were crucified for it.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235" target="_blank">></a><br />
After the censorship kicked in, EC bowed out with these final comics titles, retrenching into the smash success of <i>Mad Magazine</i>.<br />
Stories by Feldstein, Crandell, Krigstein, Davis, Orlando, Kamen, Craig, and more.<br />
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<center><small>Note: The <i>ShockSuspenstories</i> cover<br />
is for a progressive anti-KKK story.</small></center>
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Meanwhile, the remastered EC Comics Hardcovers are now being re-released as affordable Softcover editions, starting from the beginning.<br />
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<b><font color="00ffbf">The Haunt Of Fear</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00cc00">Tales From The Crypt</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00ffbf">Shock SuspenStories</font>, Vol. 1<br />
<font color="00cc00">The Vault Of Horror</font>, Vol. 1,</b><br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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These early-'50s comics redefined maturity in the medium, launched great writers and artists, electrified readers, and terrified conservatives. Essential.<br />
➤ see also: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america/9780312428235" target="_blank">"The Ten Cent Plague"</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>EC Covers Artists Edition</b></font>, <i>by Various Creators</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
IDW tracks down all the original artwork for the covers, and prints it in photographic form at full size.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>FANTASTIC FOUR #1 Panel By Panel</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i>, edited by Chip Kidd <small>(orig. 1961)</small><br />
<small>(Abrams ComicArts)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Noted graphic designer Chip Kidd examines and deconstructs every panel of the first FF adventure.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Steranko:<br />
NICK FURY, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artisan Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jim Steranko</i> <small>(1967-'68)</small><br />
<small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/09/rock-sex-jim-steranko-agent-of-style.html" target="_blank">Jim Steranko</a>'s legendarily innovative run changed and advanced comics, and still informs the Marvel films and TV shows today.<br />
(This is the previous 'Artist's Edition' reissued in softcover at a moderate price.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>PRINCE VALIANT</b></font>, Vol. 23 and 24,<br />
<i>by John Cullen Murphy and Cullen Murphy</i> <small>(1981-'82)</small><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The reprint campaign focuses on Hal Foster's underrated successors, the Murphys.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Moorcock Library:<br />
ELRIC The Eternal Champion</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Moorcock and Phillippe Druillet</i> <small>(1972)</small><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction" target="_blank">New Wave Of Science Fiction</a>/Sword And Sorcery meets <i>Metal Hurlant</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>LONE SLOANE: Delirius</b></font>, Vol. 2,<br />
<i>by Jacques Lob and Benjamin Legrand (w), and Philippe Druillet (a)</i> <small>(1973)</small><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Druillet co-founded <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tal_hurlant" target="_blank">Metal Hurlant</a></i> magazine with Moebius. Marvel at his grand psychedelic cathedrals.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Complete Crepax, Vol. 6:<br />
Dangerous Liaisons</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Guido Crepax</i> <small>(1977-'89)</small><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Crepax's photographer Valentina grows ever more erotic in these cinematic exploits.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Frank Thorne’s Complete GHITA</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Frank Thorne</i> <small>(1978)</small><br />
<small>(Hermes Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Thorne recast his success with Red Sonja into a more bawdy, less censored surrogate for Warren magazines.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Collected TOPPI: Vol. 6, Japan</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sergio Toppi</i><br />
<small>(Magnetic Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One of the best illustrators and graphic designers of the 20th century. A master class in every page, every volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Jodorowsky Library</b></font>, Vol. 1,<br />
<i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky +</i> <small>(2014-'15)</small><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Malcontent director Jodorowsky (<i>EL TOPO</i>, <i>THE HOLY MOUNTAIN</i>, <i>SANTA SANGRE</i>) continues spinning out complex <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune" target="_blank">DUNE</a>-esque mind-movies of kink, polity, and mayhem on the page.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MADMAN:<br />
The Madmaniverse</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Michael Allred</i> <small>(1990 to ’96)</small><br />
<small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An omnibus of Allred's original character, like an indie film rethinking of "<i>Frankenstein</i>" and Silver Age comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ENIGMA:<br />
The Definitive Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo</i> <small>(1993)</small><br />
<small>(Berger Books)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In the midst of Vertigo Comics' '90s dark surrealism titles, this neglected gem snuck out. A Lynch-ian metaphor for coming out, galvanized by the astounding art of Duncan Fegredo (<i>Hellboy</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>Art Of Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ STARDUST</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Charles Vess</i><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A coffee table overview of the Fantasy series by the bestselling author and the celebrated illustrator, from its origins to rarities.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>CINEMA PURGATORIO:<br />
This Is Sinerama</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill</i><br />
<small>(Avatar)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The peerless creators of <i>The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen</i> series now dissect cinema history and its unepected backstories in a prism of varied styles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>REED CRANDALL:<br />
Illustrator Of The Comics</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Roger Hill</i><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The EC Comics great, who got his start with Will Eisner and Lou Fine at Quality Comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>JACK KIRBY Collector</b></font> #80:<br />
Old Gods And New,<br />
<i>by Jack Kirby, and various creators</i><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
'A Companion To Jack Kirby's Fourth World', this double-length trade dedicated to comic's greatest idea machine explores his '70s celestial pantheon in depth.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>MOEBIUS:<br />
In Search Of Time</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jean 'Moebius' Giraud</i><br />
<small>(National Museum Of Archeology, Naples)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An Italian exhibition catalog showcasing the visionary artist's illustrations.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ALAN MOORE:<br />
A Critical Guide</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jackson Ayres</i><br />
<small>(Bloomsbury)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
An acedemic review of the greatest writer in comics history.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>River Of Ink</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Etienne Appert and Edmond Baudoin</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
An overview of the history of illustration told in comics form, from Lascaux to now, examining why we delineate the world and our thoughts.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>Drawing Words And Writing Pictures</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jessica Able and Matt Madden</i><br />
<small>(First Second)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A reissue of the 2008 guide on how to create effective comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>American Comics:<br />
A History</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Jeremy Dauber</i><br />
<small>(W.W. Norton and Co.)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A Columbia professor concisely and insghtfully tells the entire history, from early comics strips to today's cinema revolution.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>All Of The Marvels:<br />
A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Douglas Wolk</i><br />
<small>(Penguin Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
He read every Marvel comic in order, every single one, to congeal for you the overarching themes, patterns, and meanings of it all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>The Comic Book History of Animation</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey</i><br />
<small>(IDW)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Following their history of Comics told in comics form, the duo frames the winding evolution of Animation on the screen, uh, on the page.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>History Of Science Fiction</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Xavier Dollo and Djibril Morrisette-Phan</i><br />
<small>(Humanoids)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The big shebang, from early authors to pulps to movements to the screen, and how it has literally recreated our future the whole way.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>STAR WARS Archives:<br />
Episodes IV-VI 1977-1983</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various</i><br />
<small>(Taschen)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The best art book company in the world compiles a treasure trove of photos, posters, props, and paraphernalia of the original <i>Star Wars</i> trilogy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>STAR WARS:<br />
Age Of Resistance</b></font>,<br />
<i>by various</i><br />
<small>(Titan Comics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A chronicle of the making of the <i>Star Wars</i> sequel trilogy films <small>(2015-'19)</small>.<br />
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<small>(Note: not to be confused with the same-titled 2019 Marvel comics saga, "<i>STAR WARS: Age Of Resistance</i>".)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ALTER EGO</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The original '60s comics fanzine that pioneered all of modern fandom, with deep stories on the Golden and Silver Age creators, is an ongoing mag still edited by Roy Thomas.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Alter Ego</a>
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>BACK ISSUE!</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Dedicated to the '70s and '80s renaissance.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98" target="_blank">Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>ILLUSTRATION</b></font><br />
<small>(The Illustrated Press)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The best illustrators celebrated by the smartest illustration mag.<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.illustration-magazine.com" target="_blank">Illustration</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>RETROFAN</b></font><br />
<small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everything pop cultural from the '60s through the '80s.<br />
➤ <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_152" target="_blank">Retrofan</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>THE COMICS JOURNAL</b></font><br />
<small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The premiere scholastic graphic arts forum, now printed in an annual volume.<br />
➤ <a href="“https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/the-comics-journal”target=_blank">The Comics Journal</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b>STAR TREK Explorer</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"These are the voyages..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-trek-magazine" target="_blank">Star Trek Explorer</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="00ffbf"><b>STAR WARS INSIDER</b></font><br />
<small>(Titan)</small> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"An energy field created by all living things..."<br />
➤ <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-wars-insider" target="_blank">Star Wars Insider</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>SHANG CHI And The Legend of the Ten Rings</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>BLACK WIDOW</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="#AC58FA"><i><b>ETERNALS</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <font color="#c183fb"><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: No Way Home</b></i></font><br />
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➤ <a href="" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES & TV: 2021</a><br />
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➤ <font color="#ffffff">></font> <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com" target="_blank">Four Color Films</a>,<br />
THE Comic Movies Review Site!<br />
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<font color="ffbf00">W E B C O M I C S :</font></b></h1></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font color="00cc00"><b><a href="https://sarahcandersen.com/" target="_blank">SARA'S SCRIBBLES</a></b></font>,<br />
<i>by Sara Andersen</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Absurdist doodles in four panels with brainy zing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/"><b>TOM TOMORROW</b></a>,<br />
<i>by Tom Tomorrow</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A kind of digital love-child of Trudeau and Breathed, this long-running satire of political insanity is a panacea.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="fffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/nancy" target="_blank">NANCY</a>,<br />
<i>by Olympia Jaimes</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Under a pseudonym, someone is upgrading the classic strip's mindtricks for the digital age.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive" target="_blank">PRINCE VALIANT</a>,<br />
<i>by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates</i> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Schultz (<i>Xenozoic Tales</i>) and Yeates (<i>Timespirits</i>) are doing excellent work continuing Hal Foster's masterwork into the 21st century.<br />
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<font size="6"><font color="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://thenib.com" target="_blank">The Nib</a> <font color="00ccff">_______</font><br />
RESIST!<br />
The best of contemporary editorial satire, from an array of talents.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font color="ffe300">R E S T</font><br />
<font color="ffbf00">I N</font><br />
<font color="ffe300">P O W E R</font></b></h2></center><br />
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From you, we exist.<br />
Because of you, we persist.<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> S. Clay Wilson<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Frank Thorne<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Joye Hummel<br />
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<center><small>by S. Clay Wilson; Joye Hummel;<br />
John Paul Leon; Richard Donner</small></center>
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> John Paul Leon<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> David Anthony Kraft<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Richard Donner<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Takao Saito<br />
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<font color="ffffff">•</font> Mitsutoshi Furuya<br />
<font color="ffffff">•</font> Hiroshi Hirata<br />
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<center><b><font color="ffbf00">Nuff said, pilgrim.</font> <font color="ffe300"><i>Excelsior!</i></font></b></center><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/12/best-music-2019-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2019</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-music-2018-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2018</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-music-2017-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2017</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2017</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-music-2016-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2016</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2016.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2016</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-music-2015-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2015</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2015.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2015</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-movies-tv-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-music-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2014</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-music-2013-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2013</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-music-2012-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2012</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr /><hr />Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-56302988659553414832021-12-31T17:01:00.003-08:002021-12-31T17:02:27.046-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR! with Happy New Years Songs Playlist<br />
<center>Quality is timeless.<br />
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Make a better future.</center><br />
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<center>Count your blessings.</center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>:<br />
Rock'n'Soul Playlist,<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
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A history of NEW YEARS songs from the 1950s to today, in chronological order.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="00cc00">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf">Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="00cc00">Blues!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff9900">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="#ff6600">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="#ff9900">Country!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#cc66ff">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="#9933ff">Psychedelic!</font> <font COLOR="#cc66ff">Funk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ccff66">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="#ffff66">Reggae!</font> <font COLOR="#ccff66">Punk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff66cc">New Wave!</font> <font COLOR="#ff3399">HipHop!</font> <font COLOR="#ff66cc">Electro!</font></b><br />
and more!</center><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/10/halloween-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HALLOWEEN!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/dia-de-los-muertos-rock-music-player.html”target=_blank>DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A Rock Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/thanksgiving-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>THANKSGIVING!: A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-holidays-rocknsoul-music-player.html”target=_blank>HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A Rock'n'Soul Music Player</a><br />
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• <a href=“https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html”target=_blank>The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MANK</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Did Orson Welles write CITIZEN KANE <small>(1941)</small>, or did Herman J. Mankiewicz? Yes.<br />
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They both did, but this arresting and shrewd film gives the other guy some needed spotlight. Directing his father's script, David Fincher's labor of love is generally accurate to the facts, while focusing more as an allegory about creativity in an exploitative system than a strict biography. As such, its wry satire is politically right on time, launching acerbic barbs at the Hollywood veneer and its capitalist underbelly, the Rich rigging Right Wing elections for power, and the indomitable punk spirit that guides creatives to battle the corrupt machine with art.<br />
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Enjoy it all, and then watch it again just for the craft: its emulation of KANE with layered flashbacks, lush B/W photography, and epic eye; the sterling dialogue, quoting the actual Mank' and his scripts; the sly turns by a perfect cast; and the wave of cameos by important historical figures from Chaplin to Hearst.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
The heralded August Wilson wrote 9 stage plays about the African-American experience, one for each decade of the 20th Century.<br />
Set during a 1927 Blues recording session, this riveting drama explores the coiling tensions between hope and exploitation, between what's made available and what needs to be possible. Viola Davis and Glynn Turman are marvels of subtlety and slow burn. And the late Chadwick Boseman, in his final role, is on righteous fire as the sideman who demands Front Street.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
In her directorial debut, noted actor Regina King co-adapts Kemp Powers' play. Activist Malcolm X, boxer Muhammad Ali, singer Sam Cooke, and footballer Jim Brown once met up in a 1964 Florida hotel room, and this imagines what sociopolitical riffs and rifts might have happened in such an amazing get-together.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
The CounterCulture proposed Love to all throughout 1967, and the world spent 1968 trying to destroy them for it. <small>(And still does.)</small>.<br />
Aaron Sorkin (<i>West Wing</i>) examines the infamous trial of the activists who disrupted the '68 Democratic Convention, and how their populist ideals still resonate in contemporary politics, as does the corruption of the power elite that continues to assault activism and progress.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>SHIRLEY</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Josephine Decker's examination of psychological horror scribe Shirley Jackson's home life isn't an accurate bio, but instead an intense thriller in Jackson's own style. <small>[And much more faithful in effect than the cheap shocks of <i>The Haunting Of Hill House</i> (2018).]</small><br />
Masterful performances by Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE ASSISTANT</b></i></font> <small>(2019)</small> ⇧<br />
Kitty Green's slow-fuse shell game styles itself like an office documentary, following Julia Garner in her duties while quietly peeling away the layers of passive sexist degradation that women endure daily in the workplace.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>SUMMERLAND</b></i></font> (U.K.) ⇧<br />
Jessica Swale's nuanced story of a temperamental writer forced to care for a displaced boy is bittersweet and lovely, driven by the ever-great Gemma Arterton and another radiant turn by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.<br />
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Chloé Zhao's adaption of the non-fiction book about modern nomads follows Frances McDormand in plain-stated documentary fashion, upending conventional perceptions of poverty, community, retirement, and personal change.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BACURAU</b></i></font> (Brazil)<br />
Led by natural unknowns along with stalwarts like Sônia Braga and Udo Kier, this Weird Western unwinds through an evolving mystery that's especially effective in the eerie setup of its first half.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MINARI</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
This engaging and fresh tale of a Korean family trying to make it as farmers in 1980 Arkansas is based on writer/director Lee Isaac Chung's youth. Steven Yeun scores another acting win, while the spunky Grandma and the unaffected kids swipe it.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>TIGERTAIL</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Alan Yang (<i>Parks and Recreation</i>) explores how a father's disconnect from his daughter is rooted in his troubled past in this moving character drama starring reknowned character actor Tzi Ma and Christine Ko.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE WILD GOOSE LAKE</b></i></font> (China) <small>(2019)</small> ⇧<br />
Diao Yinan follows the triumph of his crime thriller BLACK COAL, THIN ICE with this neo-noir journey, mesmerizing in its mood and unexpectedly grand moments.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>MOGUL MOWGLI</b></i></font> (U.K.) ⇧<br />
Riz Ahmed has done so many varied roles, it's a shock to see him essentially be himself, a British-Pakistani rapper of intimidating skill. But rather than a music success yarn, this tough and occasionally surreal film takes a more challenging and empathic turn.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>TESLA</b></i></font><br />
An experiment in form that that benefits most from Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan's performances. A more effective take on the battle bwtween Tesla and Edison is THE CURRENT WAR <small>(2017)</small>.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BLACK BEAR</b></i></font><br />
This film also dusrupts narrative form, which is interesting enough, but it's the Cassavetes-esque intensity of Aubrey Plaza's shaded performance that revs the engine.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>BORAT Subsequent Moviefilm</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Sacha Baron Cohen tops himself in this superior sequel, taking on the worst excesses of current Fascistic politics full-on with a crazed bravery and vicious wit. Amazing newcomer Maria Bakalova is his match the whole way. And the climax has become legend.<br />
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon trade cheeky snark and more impressions in this fourth and final playful riposte to the Hope and Crosby ROAD pictures.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>LUCKY GRANDMA</b></i></font> <small>(2019)</small> ⇧<br />
Did an NYC Chinatown grandma cross the wrong mob, or did the mobs cross the wrong grandma? Sasie Sealy and her all-female crew hit comedy gold with this savvy charmer starring the hardass Tsai Chin.<br />
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What if MANHATTAN thought like DO THE RIGHT THING? Writer/director/producer/rapper Radha Blank's B/W meditation on trying to make it in modern New York just gets more exponentially hilarious and inspired as it goes.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD</b></i></font> (U.K.) ⇧<br />
Armando Iannucci follows the Python-esque THE DEATH OF STALIN with a zany deconstruction of Charles Dickens as a metatextual farce, starring a cosmopolitan cast of greats, continually upended -of course- by any scene with Peter Capaldi, Tilda Swinton, or Ben Whishaw.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>MISS JUNETEENTH</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Channing Godfrey Peoples' debut film gives Nicole Beharie (<i>Sleepy Hollow</i>) the star vehicle that truly lets her breathe, with this tender and amaiable yarn about a mother and daughter's differing dreams for the future.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE HALF OF IT</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
As an antidote to the vanilla John Hughes coming-of-age formula, writer/director Alice Wu channels her youth as the outsider in a conventional small U.S. town through a sharp and funny rewrite of <i>"Cyrano de Bergerac"</i>. Leah Lewis is a winning stand-out leading a fresh and supple cast.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>YES, GOD, YES</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Karen Maine's merry and sacriligeous slapstick of sexual awakening at an uptight Bible camp is clever, and Natalia Dyer (<i>Stranger Things</i>) is a wide-eyed delight.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>EXTRA ORDINARY</b></i></font> (Ireland) <small>(2019)</small><br />
GHOSTBUSTERS meets THE EXORCIST. All the ludicrous and leftfield fun you would want it to be.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>VILLAINS</b></i></font> <small>(2019)</small><br />
This demented farce is a whirling curveball, pitting two dumb thieves against married serial killers in the woodlands. Mayhem and bizzarity tumbles.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>TENET</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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In his heart of hearts, Christopher Nolan wants to make James Bond films.<br />
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In ways, he already has: the skyscraper scene in THE DARK KNIGHT; the plane sequence that opens THE DARK KNIGHT RISES; and the snow fortress sequence in INCEPTION. But here he goes full-tilt with an ultimate James Bond-esque thriller that questions the very nature of the sequential itself. This smart and innovative film works on every level, as a layered mystery, an international intrigue, an action thriller, as speculative fiction, and as a mindwarp.<br />
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Anyone who says different doesn't know what time it is.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MULAN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
This fine film had the bad luck of being scuttled by the Pandemic (and attendant hysterical bias).<br />
Meanwhile, on the real side, it reinvents the legend and the 1998 animated film much better, with an epic saga loyal in spirit, brave in innovation, and true in its aim.<br />
Yifei Liu shines as the lead in this spectacular fantasy, amid a cast of all-star greats including Donnie Yen, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott Lee, Rosalind Chao, Gong Li, and Jet Li. Sword up and ride.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE VAST OF NIGHT</b></i></font> <br />
An effective debut, with elaborate Raimi-cam tracking shots zooming through weird goings-on in a '50s desert town. Sierra McCormick steals it as the irrepressible teen telephone operator.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE INVISIBLE MAN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
This feminist retake on the Wells classic has the perfect star in Elisabeth Moss (<i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>). Aside from some minor logic gaps, it's a bracing thriller with a lot of wry subtext.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>REBECCA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Hitchcock made his 1940 Hollywood debut with his smash adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance thriller.<br />
But the strong story is bigger than Hitch, and has been reinterpreted over the years through radio, plays, musicals, and TV mini-series. Here, Ben Wheatley (A FIELD IN ENGLAND, HIGH RISE) eschews moody studios and revivifys it filming on location in the natural settings of Monte Carlo, castles, and shore houses. Lily James and Armie Hammer bring the glamour and mystery.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>CORDELIA</b></i></font><br />
A fractured soul finds herself being stalked in this canny thriller. Or.<br />
The layered performance by Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who co-wrote it, galvanizes this metatext about perception, using subliminal traces of three '50s Hitchcock films (and one '60s Polansky film) -and our suppositions from them- to then question our assumptions.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>GRETEL AND HANSEL</b></i></font><br />
Oz Perkins reaches peak stylization in this moody decoding of the creepy fable, engaging on its craft alone.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>HIS HOUSE</b></i></font> (UK) ⇧<br />
A Sudanese refugee couple, haunted by war and secrets, moves to an inhospitable London town and encounters fresh grief and old horrors.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>SHE DIES TOMORROW</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Amy Seimetz starred in Shane Carruth's surreal mood piece UPSTREAM COLOR <small>(2013)</small>, and she refracts it directing this jarring and entrancing film, in which a mysterious compulsion takes over one person after another.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i> <b>RELIC</b></i></font><br />
Natalie Erika James scores points for macabre style in this gloomy gloss of three women navigating a haunted place.<br />
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<center><small>Original art by <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com/"target=_blank>Tym Stevens</a></small></center>
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>WONDER WOMAN 1984</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Director Patty Jenkins completes the arc, transferring Diana from the dreary hackdom of Snyder's DC films to the bright nobility of Donner's SUPERMAN.<br />
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The transition began in WONDER WOMAN <small>(2017)</small> and reaches full fruition here. WW84 is a loving tribute to the beginning of modern superhero films, namely SUPERMAN <small>(1978)</small> and SUPERMAN II <small>(1981)</small>, with all the noble action, grand stakes, broad fun, heraldic destiny, romantic night-flights, and bright days intact. But, in rewriting SUPERMAN III into the good film it should have been, this sly homage is informed by all the character beats, complex plotting, metatext, social subtext, and expert craft that contemporary superhero films have evolved into. It is essentially the best superhero film that the '80s never actually made, and right in every way for it. Truth.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>SOUL</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Pete Docter wrote/directed the essential Pixar film INSIDE OUT <small>(2015)</small>, a subtle film that understands the 3 levels of emotional perception.<br /> <small>(cheat chart: primary/basic, secondary/mixed, tertiary/abstract)</small>.<br />
He expands that profundity in this heady film, as fleet as a bebop solo, as challenging as a Monk recital, as fun as a ballroom dance. Deep, funny, soulful.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HILDA</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
The latest season of Luke Pearson's charismatic adventurer tells bracing modern Fantasy tales, while taking the bold step of letting her have actual emotional growing pains along the way. A fine, fun show.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
How do you possibly follow up the brilliant candy absurdism of <i>Adventure Time</i>? Creator Pendleton Ward turns conversations from Duncan Trussell's heady podcasts into multiversal mindwarps.<br />
The art is so astounding, you'll want to watch it again at half-speed just to admire and catch everything.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>STAR TREK: Lower Decks</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
Seth McFarlane initially misstepped by trying to merge frat humor with <i>Star Trek</i> in his parody, <i>The Orville</i>, eventually settling better into gentle spoofing.<br />
Mike McMahan, a writer for <i>Rick and Morty</i>, succeeds better here lobbing Douglas Adams absurdity in rapid-fire gasps. The ballyhooed Easter Eggs of <i>Trek</i> history are seriously deep cut, but the true depth lies in characterization that makes you really care.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STAR WARS: The Clone Wars</b></i></font> 7 ⇧<br />
The beloved <i>Clone Wars</i> animated series was cut short from a 10-year goal by a Season 6 cancellation. Thankfully, fan support and the impact of its mythos on live-action films earned a 7th season finale reprieve, wrapping up the events between film Episodes II and III. And proving, quite touchingly, that Ahsoka Tano was the heart of it all.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MLK/FBI</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
The best man in America was harassed and threatened by the worst; Dr. King fought for real justice for American citizens, while FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover corroded our nation with corruption and oppression. The same dichotomy remains between populist activism and systemic injustice to this day.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>WHO KILLED MALCOLM X?</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
It's been clear since 1965 that the murder of Civil Rights activism's bravest voice was deeper than the false narrative. Time only reveals more of the collusion.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ASSASSINS</b></i></font><br />
How two women were tricked into murdering the heir to the leader of South Korea.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS</b></i></font><br />
What is the legacy of the brutal 1973 Chile coup, and who does the interpretation?<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>FLINT: WHO CAN YOU TRUST?</b></i></font><br />
The city of Flint, Michigan, poisoned its water supply for profit. The people fought back.<br />
This is everything about how modern corruption causes social collapse in one clear example.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>DELIA DERBYSHIRE: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes</b></i></font><br />
As the wizard of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia created the classic 1963 <i>Doctor Who</i> theme purely out of tape loops. She has achieved cult status with all the other sonic wonders she created.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MR. SOUL!</b></i></font><br />
From 1968 to 1973, Ellis Haizlip used public access TV to bring real Black culture and social views into the living room, disprupting all the hate narratives with peace, love, and soul.<br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58F><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58F><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE DAILY SHOW, with Trevor Noah</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BETTER CALL SAUL</b></i></font> 5 ⇧<br />
If <i>Breaking Bad</i> is THE GODFATHER, then <i>Better Call Saul</i> is THE GODFATHER II; while the first is a linear crime drama, the second is a prequel/sequel simultaneously, telling a wider and deeper story in between those time contrasts about consequences and redemptions. This penultimate season -a lesson in mature television craft- beautifully sets up the Sixth finale season to come.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>FARGO</b></i></font> 4 ⇧<br />
After a pause, Noah Hawley brings a new dimension to the Fargo-verse, one that the Coens have never entertained in their films: the African American experience on either side of crime. Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman are good, but Glynn Turman and Ben Whishaw carry the gravity, and Jessie Buckley and E'myri Crutchfield steal it.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BABYLON BERLIN</b></i></font> 3<br />
The noir detective series investigates murders at a 1929 movie studio, even as the terrible tide of Nazism begins to rise underneath.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>PERRY MASON</i></b></font> 1<br />
The untold origin of the world's most famous lawyer, told harsh and hardboiled a la CHINATOWN and <i>Boardwalk Empire</i>.<br />
As a beat-down private detective in brutal 1932 L.A., Mason explores the grime under the gloss as he exposes corrupt cops, clergy, and conspiracies. A fine cast, featuring another unexpected turn by Tatiana Maslaney (<i>Orphan Black</i>), and many surprise twists.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>KILLING EVE</i></b></font> 3<br />
Another engaging season from a new showrunner, full of shocks and laughs, though maybe running the risk of formula at this point.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>"SMALL AXE"</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
West Indies immigrants tranformed the culture of London from the '60 to the '80s, but found a rough road in the doing. Director Steve McQueen (12 YEARS A SLAVE) dramatizes this in five film stories that examine the tolls paid in their struggles.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
An excellent adaptation of Walter Tevis's (<i>The Hustler</i>, <i>The Man Who Fell To Earth</i>) book which became a cultural phenomenon, winning awards and blowing up chess board sales. Anya Taylor-Joy is fascinating as the troubled chess prodigy who can conquer the world if she can exceed her own stalemates.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE GOOD LORD BIRD</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
<i>“There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”</i> -John Brown, 1856<br />
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John Brown was the fire to burn bigotry and class to the ground. Slavers and land barons quaked in fear, and still do, that the oppressed might rise up and overrun their tyranny. Under all their bombast, laws, and guns lies the panic that they are on the losing side of history. And they are.<br />
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This inversion of <i>Huckleberry Finn</i>, based on James McBride’s awarded book, boils with trenchant wit and righteous fury, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Helming an excellent cast, Ethan Hawke gives a career-best performance as the ice-eyed firebrand, while Daveed Diggs slyly preens as Frederick Douglass. Get it on the good foot and watch <i>The Good Lord Bird</i>. Fight for the power that should be.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HOLLYWOOD</b></i></font><br />
What if the '40s Golden Age Of Hollywood had done the right thing by being inclusive and anti-bigoted?<br />
This luminous alternate history story answers that by taking on all forms of bigotry dancing bantam and punching heavyweight. Ryan Murphy's (<i>Glee</i>, <i>Pose</i>) latest vehicle saunters breezy -and sometimes a few steps short of cheesy- with the chipper lilt of a Jacques Demy musical <small>(note the gas station, a la <i>Cherbourg</i>)</small>, simmering with the erotic subversion of Kenneth Anger, and burning for better change like Paul Robeson. Patti Lupone is a force, Rob Reiner channels his hilarious dad, Queen Latifah brings the gravity, and the gorgeous Laura Harriel and the comely cast light up the nitrate.<br />
Seeing what might have been clearly reveals how much we've lost for decades under the repressive. Action.<br />
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<center><small>Bella Abzug,<br />
Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan</small></center><br />
<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>MRS. AMERICA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
For every positive action, there is a negative reactionary.<br />
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As soon as Feminists nearly passed the Equal Rights Amendment in the ‘70s, here came the zealot to turn back the clock. Phyllis Schlafly weaponized hick hate and gentry greed for her own power by manipulating the media, templating the next four decades of Right Wing oppression from Ronald to Donald.<br />
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This brave maxi-series is required viewing, both as an activist primer and a rallying call against injustice. See how the original Squad - <b>Gloria Steinem</b>, <b>Shirley Chisholm</b>, <b>Betty Friedan</b>, and <b>Bella Abzug</b>- fought the good fight for our future. Written and directed by women, it boasts an excellent A-list cast including fine turns by Sarah Paulson, Rose Byrne, Tracey Ullman, Elizabeth Banks, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale, and the chameleonic Cate Blanchett.<br />
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Today, we still fight the battles for equal rights - equal pay, diverse inclusion, sexual identity, political power- that we should have won in the ‘70s. Conservatives may constrict, but Progressives liberate. Raise your bullhorn and a fist.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>UTOPIA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
A comic book by a madman unlocks the puzzle of a pandemic endangering all life.<br />
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The critically acclaimed UK version <small>(2013)</small> was like a ‘90s Vertigo Comic come to life. The prescient series gets a clearly reverent US adaptation by bestselling author Gillian Flynn (<i>Gone Girl</i>, <i>Sharp Objects</i>), which keeps the acidic comedy, some of the color saturation, and the Tarantino theatric sadism (the infamous spoon scene), all slightly streamlined with notable expansions in the second half.<br />
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And, unlike the subpar scribbling of the first series, João Ruas’ (Vertigo’s <i>Fables</i>) comic illustrations are glorious art that sells the whole surreal journey.<br />
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The original got 2 seasons when it deserved 3, and this one only got 1.* Explore each rabbit hole anyway.<br />
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* <small>Maybe Bezos should spend his Plague Profits on worker protections instead of union-busting.</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BLACK NARCISSUS</b></i></font><br />
Have Gemma Arterton, will succeed. The Powell-Pressburger film version <small>(1947)</small> is a stone classic, but this worthy 3-part adaptation brings in added elements of the book, enhanced by filming at actual Nepal locations.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>DEVS</i></b></font><br />
Alex Garland (EX MACHINA, ANNIHILATION) crafts an 8-part headtrip, mesmeric in tone and provocative in implications. The ever-fluid Sonoya Mizuno plays a software developer at the cusp of a redefinition of existence.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE OUTSIDER</b></i></font><br />
What if <i>The X-Files</i> was filmed like <i>True Detective</i>? This Stephen King adaptation gains most of its potency from the latter's form, unwinding a gripping procedural into a darkening thriller. Moody atmosphere, impressionistic photography, and a nuanced character script enfold a first-rate cast, all of which is stolen -as usual- by the rising Cynthia Erivo portraying King's answer to Will Graham.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>THE STAND</i></b></font><br />
Stephen King's magnum opus gets an effective new interpretation.<br />
The 1978 classic epic, about the lean survivors of a global pandemic, achieved its power from the gradual assembling of its cast and the deep character build in the journey. This maxi-series compresses that by flashing through a then/now shuffle (a la <i>LOST</i>, which the book directly influenced) instead of being sequential, losing much of the depth and gravity in between in the process. But it is still a riveting and effective adaptation that tells a timeless story very well with a worthy cast, albeit becoming a highlights reel strongest in its light than its dark, and King has written an interesting new postscript episode for the end.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>WHAT DID JACK DO?</b></i></font><br />
A film noir short film in which tough cop David Lynch interrogates a cagey monkey. 17 minutes of hilarious.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STAR TREK: DISCOVERY</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
'<i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>' is the Ultimate STAR TREK.
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After summing up the strengths of all previous shows and films in its first two seasons, the most innovative <i>Trek</i> show in history rebuilt itself from a blank slate this year, defining itself in the unknown in real time in a way not seen since the Original Series itself. The show knows it, and its triumphant culmination at season's end proves it.<br />
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Catch up to the new future.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>STAR TREK: PICARD</i></b></font> 1 ⇧<br />
A brave show that challenges how <i>Star Trek</i> can be told, and what it tells about itself. Taking its cues from the fearless transmutations of <i>Discovery</i>, <i>Picard</i> upgrades <i>The Next Generation</i> into Phase II, with feature film production values, sociopolitical edge, scandalous upheaval, guerilla rebellion, and a ruthless questioning of what Starfleet is and should be. And along the way, some loved and familiar faces take on new life.<br />
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Engage.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>THE MANDALORIAN</i></b></font> 2 ⇧<br />
Everyone loved the first season, which brought STAR WARS feature film values to weekly television, while expanding the depth of its stories with mini-series breadth. But everyone <i>really</i> loved the second season, when aspects from all variations of the canon came to life and together; from the live-action versions of animated characters to the astonishing guest at the end.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>OUTLANDER</b></i></font> 5<br />
Television's best romance told dual love stories, while balancing history, inclusion, fate, and tragedy.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>DOCTOR WHO</b></i></font> 12<br />
Jodie Whittaker is wondrous as the current Doctor, and showrunner Chris Chibnall (<i>Broadchurch</i>) has totally redefined and expanded the character for the ages in the stunning season finale.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HIS DARK MATERIALS</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
An adaptation of the second book in Pullman's Fantasy series, alive with vivid locations, pinioning deception, palpable edge, and the charm of Dafne Keen's puckish hero.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>WESTWORLD</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
The source film WESTWORD <small>(1973)</small> was followed by the sequel FUTURE WORLD <small>(1976)</small>.<br />
The genius of this season was in reinventing itself into cyberpunk territory, while filming in real-world locations that exist because of the future extrapolations which have since come to pass.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ALTERED CARBON</b></i></font> 2<br />
Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk trilogy about body-changing mercenary Takeshi Kovacs lends itself naturally to renewal. This adaptation of the second book rejuvenates the series with a dynamic turn by new lead, Anthony Mackie.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>3%</b></i></font> 4 (Brazil)<br />
The dystopian allegory reaches its end. Anyone with any casting sense would be building a STAR WARS spin-off series around break-out stars Bianca Comparato and Vaneza Oliveira.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>OMNISCIENT</b></i></font> (Brazil) 1<br />
In a 'crimeless' utopic surveillance state, her father's murder compels her to investigate a wider conspiracy. A tightly entertaining thought experiment about corporatism, exploitation, and classism, energized by the magnetic Carla Salle.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>AWAY</b></i></font> 1<br />
A solid show about the first flight to Mars, sometimes basic but more often sublime. Hilary Swank captains an international crew, navigating their inner demons and unexpected disasters as they hurtle through the vacuum. Though it was cancelled after one season, it plays like a maxi-series that tells a satisfying full story. Catch the ride.<br />
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<small>[Watching tip: to enjoy the full Martian journey in sequence, watch THE FIRST (2018) series for the pre-flight, then AWAY (2020) for the flight mission, and finally MARS (2016-'18) for the colonization.]</small><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.</b></i></font> 7 ⇧<br />
Since the beginning, this show has set the standard for smart adult fun in superhero shows: always funny without descending to crass, ever active while never stooping to hyper-violence, clever in its arcs without overstretching the taffy. Unloved at first for seeming too basic, it stealthily built a hardcore following with sharp stories, Whedon wit, and great characters. This finale season read like a love letter to its supporters, to Marvel history, and to its own admirable accomplishments.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>DOOM PATROL</b></i></font> 2<br />
Writer Grant Morrison's storied four-year run on the 'Doom Patrol' comic series completely redefined the misfits as lysergic surrealism for adults. This series channels his black comedy into what sometimes veers on madcap camp, still retaining enough of his concepts, arcs, and tone to be a fun translation of his legacy.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>UMBRELLA ACADEMY</b></i></font> 2<br />
Grant Morrison's acolyte is rock star Gerard Way, who with Brazilian artist Gabriel Bá created his own take on 'Doom Patrol' and 'The X-men' comics with the postpunk piss-take, 'The Umbrella Academy'. This solid series adaption, with its scope and tone, may even capture more of the Morrison style than DOOM PATROL does.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>SNOWPIERCER</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
Two French graphic novels in the 'Metal Hurlant' style were the basis for Bong Joon-ho's acclaimed cult hit SNOWPIERCER film <small>(2013)</small>, a metaphor about classism in a lone train endlessly circling a frozen Earth.<br />
The malleable framework of the concept gets fully expanded here with the time it deserves, wringing the classism parable for all its immediate currency. Daveed Diggs does a dramatic turn here, but the steely star of it all is the multi-faceted Jennifer Connelly.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>Pen15</b></i></font> 2.1<br />
Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle return playing their 13-year-old selves (beside actual teenagers), this time becoming even more poignant amidst the hilarity.<br />
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<center><small><i>The Passion Of Joan Of Arc</i>; <i>The Great Dictator</i>;<br />
<i>The Red Shoes</i>; <i>Ugetsu</i>;<br />
<i>Pather Panchali</i>; <i>Nights Of Cabiria</i></small></center><br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff"><center><h1><b>C R I T E R I O N</b></h1></center></font><br />
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Netflix is like the flashy dance club of streaming entertainment, but <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/"target=_blank>The Criterion Channel</a> is for the deep cuts of real culture.<br />
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It needs to be said. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu impress with their glossy New Now, and they do have many current gems, but they completely lack heritage classics. All width and no depth. That's all fun, but how long can you chew gum for supper? At some point, when you crave for a more well-rounded diet of substance that sustains your mind and soul, there's only one place to get serious about learning full-quality cinema... The Canon Of Great Films That Actually Matter.<br />
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<center><small><i>The Hidden Fortress</i>; <i>Black Orpheus</i>;<br />
<i>The 400 Blows</i>; <i>Purple Noon</i>;<br />
<i>Woman In The Dunes</i>; <i>A Hard Day's Night</i></small></center><br />
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While other streaming sites are High School, <b>The Criterion Channel</b> is Oxford.<br />
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<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/"target=_blank>The Criterion Channel</a> film-streaming site is the best cinema from around the world and every decade since film began, along with new indie films and acclaimed documentaries. Plus, Criterion is the vanguard in restoring great films to a precision standard of picture and sound that matches the present. Restored classics now look better than the day they were struck. If you've watched Mark Cousins' <i>"The Story of Film: An Odyssey"</i> documentary series as a primer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey"target=_blank>></a>, this site is the true library to expand your enjoyment into the most essential film classics. Every fine film we appreciate now branches directly from the roots of these timeless works of cinematic art, whether it's a romance, period piece, character drama, guerilla handheld, Rock film, style fest, rebel indie, or avant garde. Get the whole picture.<br />
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<center><small><i>Black Girl</i>; <i>Persona</i>;<br />
<i>Solaris</i>; <i>Space Is The Place</i>;<br />
<i>Eraserhead</i>; <i>Brother From Another Planet</i></small></center><br />
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<small>(also explore: <a href="https://www.fandor.com/"target=_blank>Fandor</a>, <a href="https://watch.filmatique.com/"target=_blank>Filmatique</a>, <a href="https://mubi.com/"target=_blank>Mubi</a>, <a href="https://www.tcm.com/"target=_blank>Turner Classic Movies</a>, <a href="https://www.kanopy.com/"target=_blank>Kanopy</a>, <a href="https://filmhub.com/"target=_blank>Filmhub</a>, <a href="http://www.indiepixunlimited.com/"target=_blank>IndiePix</a>, <a href="https://www.indieflix.com/"target=_blank>IndieFlix</a>, <a href="https://www.ovid.tv/"target=_blank>Ovid</a>, <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/"target=_blank>BFI Player</a> (UK), <a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline"target=_blank>OpenCulture</a>)</small><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-40295744058652146902021-02-25T21:56:00.114-08:002024-01-19T16:51:08.956-08:00BEST MUSIC: 2020, with Music Players!<br />
<center><i><font size="5">With <font COLOR="ffffff">4</font> <font COLOR="FFFF66">Music Players</font>!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><font size="5">B L A C K<br />
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<center><h2><font COLOR="FFFF66">ALL THE</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">REAL MUSIC</font><font COLOR="FFFF66">!</font></h2></center><br />
<center><font COLOR="ccff33"><i>Hard Pass all those trendy-indie<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Black Pumas</b>, <i>"Black Pumas"</i></font><br />
<center> </center><b>The Album Of The Year</b>.<br />
A Psychedelic Soul tour-de-force.<br />
A truly stunning debut by the Texas duo, with a diverse range of melodies that already sound like classic standards.<br />
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<small>(See also: Georgia Ann Muldrow, Curtis Harding, Greyhounds, The Heavy)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Nicole Atkins</b>, <i>"Italian Ice"</i></font><br />
Country, Soul, Psyche, +.<br />
Atkins is a mage who shifts effrortlessly through musical moods, with memorable tunes and rewarding turns.<br />
Why do we need plastic idols, when we have someone who deserves all the attention?<br />
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<small>(see also: Neko Case, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Jesca Hoop, Lera Lynn)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Autoramas</b>, <i>"Studio Sessions"</i></font><br />
Surfabilly New Wave.<br />
Garage sounds with punk angularity, from Brazil with love.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Rezillos, The B-52's, Pixies)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Alexandra Savior</b>, <i>"The Archer"</i></font><br />
Cinematic soulsearching.<br />
Rising above personal setbacks and turmoil, Savior's second album steps boldly forward, haunting while exorcised.<br />
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<small>(see also: Julee Cruise, The Last Shadow Puppets, Kandle, Unloved, Deradoorian)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Greyhounds</b>, <i>"Primates"</i></font><br />
Funky Soul Rock cornucopia.<br />
Giving the Black Pumas a serious run for their money are their fellow Texans, swiping the stage with bounding Funk, warm Soul, and crack tunes.<br />
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<small>(see also: Black Pumas, The Black Keys, St. Paul And The Broken Bones)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Pottery</b>, <i>"Welcome To Bobby's Motel"</i></font><br />
Elastic Dance Punk.<br />
Montreal whips up a mercurial smoothie of Talking Heads twitch, Gang Of Four hustle, Fela polyrhythms, and Zappa's spirit.<br />
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<small>(see also: Liquid Liquid, Orange Juice, White Denim)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Chicano Batman</b>, <i>"Invisible People"</i></font><br />
Alternative Dance.<br />
With a name like Chicano Batman, they have to be delightful. And this dream disco of alternative sounds will shake your hips while lingering in your ears.<br />
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<small>(see also: Kid Creole And The Coconuts, Brazilian Girls, Red Baraat)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Hijyou no Licence</b>, <i>"Black Beauty"</i></font><br />
Garage Rock riot.<br />
What, you thought you could just escape Japanese noiseabilly freakouts? Not on my watch.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Gories, Guitar Wolf, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Theee Bat)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Monophonics</b>, <i>"It's Only Us"</i></font><br />
Funky Soul Psyche.<br />
The Bay Area groovers shimmy your sacroiliac through lush moodscapes.<br />
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<small>(see also: Kelly Finnigan solo record, El Michels Affair, Ghost Funk Orchestra, The Budos Band, Ikebe Shakedown)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Songhoy Blues</b>, <i>"Optimisme"</i></font><br />
Desert Blues from Mali.<br />
Their ferocity comes from being political refugees, their joy from optimism for the future.<br />
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<small>(see also: Tinariwen, Goat, Imarhan, Bombino)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Bonnie Whitmore</b>, <i>"Last Will And Testement"</i></font><br />
Noir Soul.<br />
Recorded in some nexus between Memphis Soul joints and <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/07/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-20-years-of.html"target=_blank>Twin Peaks</a> diners, this confession booth of soulful blues and ballads is killer.<br />
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<small>(see also: Nicole Atkins, Jessica Lee Mayfield, Secret Sisters, Hannah Williams)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Loren Oden</b> / Adrian Younge, <i>"My Heart, My Love"</i></font><br />
Timeless Soul.<br />
Sweet crooning from Gospel roots, with lovely Classic/Forward arrangements by producer Adrian Younge.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Delfonics, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell, D'Angelo)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Lucinda Williams</b>, <i>"Good Souls, Better Angels"</i></font><br />
Bruising Blues.<br />
The Alt-Country poet can belt out fuzzy feedback with the best of them, and here she goes off like pissed bottle rockets.<br />
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<small>(see also: Patty Griffin, Mr. Airplane Man, The Detroit Cobras)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Bootsy Collins<small> </small></b>, <i>"The Power Of The One"</i></font><br />
Funk Forward.<br />
Another Bootsy record with serious guest stars (George Benson, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Snoop, Branford Marsalis, Larry Graham himself, Dr. Cornel West, etc.), this time more fully wrapped in the classic P-Funk sound.<br />
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<small>(see also: James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, early Red Hot Chili Peppers, Thundercat)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>X</b>, <i>"ALPHABETLAND"</i></font><br />
Punkabilly.<br />
The L.A. Punk pioneers return so energized with their early-'80s fire that you'd think not a minute had passed.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Cramps, The Damned, Black Flag)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BC Camplight</b>, <i>"Shortly After Taking Off"</i></font><br />
Pop Futurism.<br />
Brian Christinzio's bracing blender intoxicates sounding like 10cc melodies, Brian Wilson harmonies, Father John Misty wit, and ELO futurism. Think and dance.<br />
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<small>(see also: GUM, La Femme, Django Django, Constant Bop)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Les Hay Babies</b>, <i>"Boite aux Lettres"</i></font><br />
Chanson Beatles.<br />
The best <i>Rubber Soul</i> from Canada you didn't know you'd need and love so much.<br />
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<small>(see also: Les Lutins, Les Intrigantes, French Boutik)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Jayhawks<small> </small></b>, <i>"Xoxo"</i></font><br />
Alt-Americana.<br />
Everything right about Roots music, Singer-Songwriter, and Country Rock in one ever-evolving band.<br />
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<small>(see also: <i>The White Album</i>, Neil Young, America, Wilco)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Star Feminine Band</b>, <i>"Star Feminine Band"</i></font><br />
AfroPop.<br />
A Benin septet of musician girls from 10 to 17, turning daily challenges into sunshine. Go buy it right now.<br />
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<small>(see also: Lijadu Sisters, King Sunny Ade)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Bob Dylan</b>, <i>"Rough And Rowdy Ways"</i></font><br />
Blues Master Class.<br />
When Bob talks, you listen.<br />
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<small>(see also: Howlin' Wolf, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Kyle Lacy</b>, <i>"The Road To Tomorrow"</i></font><br />
Actual Heartland.<br />
Lacy and his hickory-smoked cohorts swing this debut record of Rockabilly, Country, and pure Soul with such confident verve, you'd think it was his tenth.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sam Cooke, Van Morrison, Brian Setzer, The James Hunter Six, J.D. McPherson)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Jungle Fire<small> </small></b>, <i>"Jungle Fire"</i></font><br />
Latin Funkadelia.<br />
You'll feel like a hundred horses, thundering across the desert into glory.<br />
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<small>(see also: Fela, early Budos Band, Ocote Soul Sounds, Brownout, Antibalas)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Death Valley Girls</b>, <i>"Under The Spell Of Joy"</i></font><br />
Epic Garage.<br />
Bikini Kill meets Black Sabbath. Get off your butt and get with.<br />
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<small>(see also: Cradle, Blackwater Holylight, Heron Oblivion, Las Robertas)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Las Cobras</b>, <i>"Selva"</i></font><br />
Lysergic Fuzz.<br />
Like a tryst between Mazzy Star and Guadalupe Plata, their sinister hypnotic psychedelia will enrapt your synaptic paths.<br />
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<small>(see also: Jesus And Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Tess Parks, The Limananas, L'Epee)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Tami Neilson</b>, <i>"CHICKABOOM!"</i></font><br />
Honkytonk Heaven.<br />
Rockabilly, Country, and Soul with the sass of Wanda Jackson and the grand intensity of Shirley Bassey. A great record to offset a lousy year.<br />
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<small>(see also: Patsy Cline, Imelda May, Shannon And The Clams)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Osees<small> (Thee Oh Sees) </small></b>, <i>"Protean Threat"</i></font><br />
Prog Punk.<br />
Rip it up and start again. Garage Punk's most frighteningly malleable contortionists always switch names and sounds swifter than ocean currents, this time bashing out manic Motorik on crank.<br />
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<small>(see also: Faust, Primus, Ty Segall, Meatbodies, Abjects)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Habibi</b>, <i>"Anywhere But Here"</i></font><br />
Beat Music meets Iran.<br />
After a long gestation (and fraught times), the quartet evolves their harmony guitar pop into textural melodicism with lyrical teeth.<br />
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<small>(see also: Dum Dum Girls, La Luz, Quilt)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Toots And The Maytals</b>, <i>"Got To Be Tough"</i></font><br />
Reggae Soul.<br />
Rest In Power, Toots Hibbert. The man who invented the term 'Reggae' and then defined its sound has left us his lifelong legacy of shining music.<br />
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<small>(see also: Otis Redding, Jimmy Cliff, John Holt, Black Uhuru)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Deerhoof</b>, <i>"Future Teenage Cave Artists"</i></font><br />
Experimental Pop.<br />
Indie Rock's most fearless band played cut-up with the sonic rules again, turning melody inside out while still being erratically catchy.<br />
And they also dropped a covers album -<i>Love-Lore</i>- of insane medley combinations.<br />
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<small>(see also: Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Broadcast, Guerilla Toss)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Don Bryant<small> </small></b>, <i>"You Make Me Feel"</i></font><br />
Stax Soul.<br />
Quality is timeless, and griots know the score. Listen and learn.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sam And Dave, Eddie Floyd, William Bell, Clarence Carter, Sharon Jones)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Throwing Muses</b>, <i>"Sun Racket"</i></font><br />
Classic Indie.<br />
The indie band's second act blazes like it's their first time and they have everything to prove.<br />
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<small>(see also: Blake Babies, Belly, Sleater-Kinney)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Here Lies Man</b>, <i>"Ritual Divination"</i></font><br />
Afrobeat Rock.<br />
Pounding out an album a year like it was the '70s, sounding like a jam session between Fela and Queens Of The Stone Age.<br />
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<small>(see also: Fela Kuti, Antibalas, Golden Dawn Arkestra)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Pretenders</b>, <i>"Hate For Sale"</i></font><br />
Punk'n'Roll.<br />
Molten with vigor and resolve, this stunning new rocker from the returning stalwarts plays like 'their great lost record from 1982'. A fist in the face to time, ageism, and conformity.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Stranglers, The Smithereens, Ex Hex)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Public Enemy<small> </small></b>, <i>"What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?"</i></font><br />
Conscious Rap.<br />
When Chuck D. raps, you listen.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Consolidated, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, Kae Tempest)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Caleb Landry Jones</b>, <i>"The Mother Stone"</i></font><br />
Baroque Pop Dada.<br />
The famed actor fractures his hypnogogic hallucinations into whiplash symphonies, like <i>Sgt. Pepper</i> pinballing through a maze. Hold onto the handlebars and enjoy the ride.<br />
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<small>(see also: Syd Barrett, Alexander "Skip" Spence, Julian Cope, Crispin Glover, Beck)</small><br /><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Nadine Shah</b>, <i>"Kitchen Sink"</i></font><br />
Moody Alternative.<br />
The cosmopolitan Shah unscrews the skewed in her mysterious moods.<br />
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<small>(see also: Malaria!, The Creatures, Anna Calvi)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Fantastic Negrito</b>, <i>"Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?"</i></font><br />
Blues Moderne.<br />
Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz plays the Blues spectrum with his roots in the classics, and his branches into the cosmos.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Bones Of J.R. Jones, The Alabama Shakes, Benjamin Booker)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>White Denim<small> </small></b>, <i>"World As A Waiting Room"</i></font><br />
GaragePsycheSoulFunkPunkJazzProgBluesPop.<br />
The Austin Texas quartet will throw in some other wrong/rights into the gumbo before you can blink. Plus, you can boogie to it.<br />
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<small>(see also: The New Pornographers, Thee Oh Sees, Portugal. The Man, Spoon)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Tomar And The FCs</b>, <i>"Rise Above"</i></font><br />
Gutbucket Soul.<br />
Memphis-esque Soul Stew: half-a-pint of Stax, four tablespoons of Hi Records, a pinch of Stones, a dash of Allmans, and a stir of Link Wray. Beat well.<br />
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<small>(see also: Little Milton, David Porter, Raphael Saddiq)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Shadow Show</b>, <i>"Silhouettes"</i></font><br />
<i>Revolver</i> Redux.<br />
Detroit brings you the catchy, adventurous, <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1963-esque.html"target=_blank>Beatlesque</a> popcraft you needed to feel truly complete.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Bangles, The Pandoras, The Bristols, Cola Jet Set)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Cupid's Carnival</b>, <i>"Color-Blind"</i></font><br />
Beatles '65, with some '69.<br />
The Beatles are a prism, from which new rays continually find their own light. This inspired band guarantees you a splendid time.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Spongetones, The Red Button, Groovy Uncle)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Joel Paterson<small> </small></b>, <i>"Let It Be Acoustic Guitar!: Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles Again"</i></font><br />
Beatles acoustic.<br />
Following the success of his electric instrumentals album <i>Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles</i> <small>(2019)</small>, here's the acoustic follow-up.<br />
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<small>(see also: Chet Atkins, early Glen Campbell, Jim Capilongo)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Daniel Romano</b>, <i>"How Ill Thy World Is Ordered"</i></font><br />
Mash-ville Skyline.<br />
Minting albums as fast as Prince or Ryan Adams, on this stylistically expansive release the Canadian sounds like '69 Dylan making <i>Abbey Road</i> at Muscle Shoals.<br />
And if that isn't good enough for you, I don't know what else to say.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Flying Burrito Brothers, Alan Hull, T-Bone Burnette, Jake Bugg)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Annabelle Chairlegs</b>, <i>"Gotta Be In Love"</i></font><br />
Optical Sound.<br />
Psyche-idealic pop for now people.<br />
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<small>(see also: The Shivas, LOVEBYRD, Blackwater Holylight, The Lovely Eggs)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Moons</b>, <i>"Pocket Melodies"</i></font><br />
All roads lead to <i>Abbey Road</i>.<br />
<a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1969-esque_20.html"target=_blank>Beatlesque</a> bands tend to be crafty clones or spiritual cousins. The Moons are definitely the latter, using their pop chops and sonic experimentation to create exemplary albums, and this magnum opus is their best yet.<br />
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<small>(see also: Cotton Mather, Robbers On High Street, Lawrence Arabia)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Joey Molland</b>, <i>"Be True To Yourself"</i></font><br />
Badfinger's culmination.<br />
Just as Paul McCartney is a one-man Beatles, Joey Molland is the one-man Badfinger. Here he creates the greatest album you wish they had got to make, a swan song of effortless grace and beauty.<br />
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<small>(see also: Sleepy Hollow, We All Together, Chris von Sneidern, The Grays)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Diamond Hands<small> </small></b>, <i>"III"</i></font><br />
Pop-adelic perfection.<br />
Everything immortal about The Beatles, Classic Rock, and Power Pop in one spellbinding kaleidescope.<br />
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<small>(see also: Let's Active, Sitcom Neighbor, New Electric Ride)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Paul McCartney</b>, <i>"McCartney III"</i></font><br />
The Love he makes.<br />
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The Sun doesn't care about your 'fashion-turnover' outlook. It's beyond anyone's simple limits and will continue to illuminate the world. Quality is timeless.<br />
Here, the Master Of Pop gleefully tosses away the Fakebook yet again, with immediately classic tunes alive with lucid knack, elated spark, and fresh perspectives.<br />
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<small>Reminder, dept.: You know how you made a solo record, trying all kinds of un-commercial things, going acoustic and eclectic, playing all the instruments in your home studio? Paul invented that with <i>McCartney</i> (1970). Catch up to the rays.</small><br />
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<small>(see also: Emitt Rhodes, Todd Rundgren, Elliott Smith, Sam Phillips, Tara Busch, Mikal Cronin)</small><br />
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<center><h2><font COLOR="ffffff">All the</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">REAL MUSIC</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">beyond the box!</font></h2></center><br />
<center>Nevermind Gloss Pop, Stepford Idols, Karaoke Choruses <small>(<i>"woh-oo-oh"</i>)</small>, Ego Brats, Emo Prats, Plinky Folk, Brittle Bombast, Vegas Country, Smug Thug, Mope Noodling, De-mixed Throb, and Robot-o-Tune schlock! <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-why-music-sounds-worse"target=_blank>></a><br />
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<b>Here's the<br />
<font COLOR="FFFF00">D R E A M<br />
J U K E B O X !</font></b></center><br />
<b><center>Shimmy down with more soul<br />
than a fishing wharf!</center></b><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">COOL SONGS 2020<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><br />
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<center>This jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly.<br />
All the songs elasticize their genres.<br />
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:</center><br />
<center><i><font COLOR="ccff33">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Beatlesque!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Psyche!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Folk!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Country!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Blues!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Funk!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">World!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Africana!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Alt Rock!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">PostPunk!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Electro!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">TripHop!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="ffffff">RESIST!</font></i></center><br />
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<center><small>Fantastic Negrito; Pottery <font size="1">1</font>;<br />
Nadine Shah; La Femme</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Luke Orlando</font></center><br />
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<font COLOR="00ffbf">16 hours</font><font COLOR="00cc00"> of synapse-snapping, tushie-twisting music</font>, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Rockabilly</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Fangin' Felines, Groovy Uncle, Eva Eastwood, The Neatbeats, and Hijyou no Licence.<br />
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<center><small>The Newbeats; Salome No Kuchibiru;<br />
The Ace Of Cups; Las Cobras</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Surf / Beat / Garage</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Minders, Peggy Sue, Hayley And The Crushers, The Courettes, The Shakers, Cupid's Carnival, Nick Lowe, Habibi, Mr. Waricomets, Tristen, Lips Of Salome, The Fleshtones, Night Beats, Pretenders, Ace of Cups, and Las Cobras.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Psychedelic / Beatlesque</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Autoramas, Destination Lonely, Shadow Show, The Clientele, Miranda And The Beat, Fleur, Joel Paterson, Isobel Campbell, Diamond Hands, El Goodo, Leah Senior, The Flaming Lips, Bananagun, The Moons, The Empty Hearts, BC Camplight, Datura4, Brigid Dawson And The Mothers Network, Dent May, Annabelle Chairlegs, The Jayhawks, Daniel Romano, Caleb Landry Jones, Blues Pills, Bebopalula, Paul McCartney, Joey Molland, King Tuff, Brent Cowles, Nathaniel Rateliff, Les Hay Babies, Throwing Muses, and Death Valley Girls.<br />
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<center><small>Autoramas; Annabelle Chairlegs <font size="1">1</font>;<br />
The Jayhawks; Joey Molland</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Federico Moreno</font></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Classic Rock / Glam</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Declan McKenna, Gloria, Jane Weaver, Fuzz, Las Historias, Mrs. Piss, Osees, and Nancy.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Folk / Country</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> levitation room, Shirley Collins, Sarah Jarosz, Tim Heidecker and Weyes Blood, The Secret Sisters, The Clientele, Adia Victoria, Dana Gavanski, Samantha Crain, Dirty Projectors, Kacy + Clayton and Marlon Williams, Angel Olsen, Laura Marling, Kevin Morby, and Rhiannon Giddens.<br />
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<center><small>The Secret Sisters; Bette Smith;<br />
Bai Kamara Jr; Chris Stapleton;<br />
Don Bryant <font size="1">1</font>; Nicole Atkins</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- C. Matt White</font></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Blues</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Bob Dylan, Bette Smith, Suzanne Santo and Gary Clark Jr, S. G. Goodman, Black Joe Lewis And The Honeybears, Lucinda Williams, Bai Kamara Jr And The Voodoo Sniffers, and Larkin Poe.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Soul</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Early James, Thorbjørn Risager, Native Harrow, Don Bryant, Tami Neilson, The Altons, The James Hunter Six, Dedicated Men of Zion, Nicole Atkins, Black Pumas, Gemma Ray, Thee Sacred Souls, Dan Penn, Chris Stapleton, Greyhounds, Kandle, Los Yesterdays, Marcus King, Lee Fields And The Expressions, Motenko, X, Loren Oden, Paul Weller, Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, Monophonics, Thee Sinseers, SAULT, and Aaron Frazer.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Funk / Mutant Disco</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Fantastic Negrito, Hannah Williams And The Affirmations, Them Vibes, Bastards Of Soul, Jyoti<small>/Georgia Anne Muldrow</small>, Tomar and the Fcs, Pottery, Jungle Fire, Neal Francis, Thundercat, Penza Penza, Childish Gambino, The Du-Rites, Chris Joss, Brownout, Temples, La Femme, Chrysta Bell, and Too Much.<br />
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<center><small>Deerhoof <font size="1">1</font>; Deradoorian;<br />
White Denim <font size="1">2</font>; PINS <font size="1">3</font>;<br />
Zara McFarlane; Osees</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photos: 1- Shervin Lainez, 2- Pooneh Ghana, 3- Debbie Ellis</font></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">World</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Toots And The Maytals, The Hempolics, Marcos Valle, Ley Line, Altin Gün, and Bab L'Bluz.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Rock En Espanol</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Los Cogelones, Mint Field, El Shirota, The Limiñanas and Nuria, Sgt. Papers, Los Estanques, Estrogenuinas, Marilyn Monstruo Band, and The Mavericks.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Africana</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra, Songhoy Blues, Les Amazones d'Afrique and Mamani Keïta, Melt Yourself Down, Farafi, Roy Ayers, Star Feminine Band, Antibalas, Groupe RTD, Michelle David And the Gospel Sessions, and Mdou Moctar.<br />
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<center><small>Toots Hibbert; Tony Allen <font size="1">1</font>;<br />
Songhoy Blues; Les Amones d'Afrique</small></center><br />
<center><font size="1">Photo: 1- Bernard Benant</font></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt Rock</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Here Lies Man, Deerhoof, Spoon, Thao And The Get Down Stay Down, Chicano Batman, Ohmme, Moses Sumney, Deradoorian, White Denim, HAIM, Yves Tumor, Nadine Shah, and Savoy Motel.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Neo Wave / PostPunk</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> The Unknowns, Elvis Costello, The Go-Go's, Crack Cloud, Vintage Crop, Kobra, PINS and Leather Party, Ganser, Public Practice, Autoramas, and Girls In Synthesis.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Electro</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> GUM, Home Counties, Electrocute, Jehnny Beth, Django Django, Zara McFarlane, Special Interest, Son Lux and William Bell, Osees, and Kate NV.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt-Rap</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Kate Tempest, Riz Ahmed, Sa-Roc, Dry Cleaning, Shygirl, Shabazz Palaces, Calibro 35 and MEI, Sneaks, Keleketia! +, Common with Lenny Kravitz and Chuck D., Fiona Apple, Shamekia + Fiona Apple, Hotel Lux, and Run The Jewels with Josh Homme and Mavis Staples.<br />
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<center><small>Riz Ahmed; The Paranoyds;<br />
noranekoguts; Alexandra Savior;<br />
Unloved; Adrian Younge + Ali Shaheed Muhammad</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Riot Grrrl</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Mitski, Shilpa Ray, illuminati hotties, Es, Kat Riggins, The Paranoyds, noranekoguts, L.A. WITCH, Concrete Lawn, Sasami, Suzie Stapleton, and Ohmme.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Alt-Jazz</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Jaimie Branch, Artemis, Muriel Grossman, Shabaka And The Ancestors, Nubya Garcia, and Idris Ackamoor And The Pyrimids.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">TripHop / Cinerama / Soundtracks</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Kandle, Anna Calvi, Calibro 35, Alexandra Savior, The Third Mind, Sharon Van Etten, The Proper Ornaments, Lera Lynn, El Michels Affair, Unloved, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Au Revoir Simone, The Budos Band, Jackie Lynn, The Dream Syndicate, Bonnie Whitmore, Brownout, El Michels Affair and Piya Malik, Julie Byrne and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Loma, Jon Batiste, Ramin Djawadi, Jeff Russo, and Ludwig Goransson.<br />
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<center><small>Elvis Costello; Public Enemy;<br />
Resistance Revival Chorus; Durand Jones And The Indications</small></center><br />
<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">RESIST!</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Artichoke, Ondara, Dion and Paul Simon, Leslie Odom Jr., Thee Sacred Souls, Catholic Action, Elvis Costello, Wire, Dave Hause and Amythyst Kiah and Kam Franklin, Pink Mountaintops, Boca 45 and Hannah Williams, Enemy Radio, Alabama Slim, Earl St. Clair, Public Enemy, Paul Cauthen, Consolidated, Blake Mills, Ohmme, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, Peaches, Heartless Bastards, Angelo Moore And the Brand New Step, The Magnetic Fields, Resistance Revival Chorus and Rhiannon Giddens, Gabriels, Lera Lynn, Durand Jones And The Indications, Badge Époque Ensemble and James Baley, Mavis Staples, A Certain Ratio, Las Cafeteras, Kyle Lacy, Liz Vice, and Harry Gregson-Williams.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Happy Holidays</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center> Kelly Finnigan, Black Pumas, and Michelle David And the Gospel Sessions.<br />
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<center><h1><font COLOR="FFFF00"><b>C O V E R</font><br />
<font COLOR="ccff33">S O N G S</font><br />
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<center><h2><font COLOR="ffffff">All the Best</font><br />
<font COLOR="FFFF00">COVER VERSIONS</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">of the year!</font></h2></center><br />
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Music is the throughline of the human spirit.<br />
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Singing timeless songs in times of uncertainty brings us solace, offers out support, and bonds us in communion.<br />
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In a year that separated us from each other, sharing songs reaffirmed us as a people, honored our origins, and lit the way for the young.<br />
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There were an abundance of cover songs in 2020. Through them, we sought reflection, revelation, and renewal. Here’s a playlist of our mutual journey.<br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">COVER SONGS 2020<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<small>List = <b>Original By</b> / <i>Cover Artist</i><br />
Songs are sequenced in the chronological order of the Originals.</small><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">1920s-'50s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Mahalia Jackson</b></font> / <i>Sinéad O'Connor</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Tampa Red</b></font> / <i>Erin Harpe</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Vera Lynn</b></font> / <i>Karen Elson</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Glenn Miller</b></font> / <i>Elisa Jo</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Woodie Guthrie</b></font> / <i>Resistance Revival Chorus</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Big Mama Thornton</b></font> / <i>Kyle Lacy</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Little Willie John</b></font> / <i>The Shakers</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Screaming Jay Hawkins</b></font> / <i>Kandace Springs</i>, and <i>The Kills</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">'60s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Ray Charles</b></font> / <i>Autoramas</i> <small>(riff)</small>, and <i>The Flying Horse Big Band</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Sam Cooke</b></font> / <i>Leslie Odom Jr.</i>, and <i>Los Coast and Gary Clark Jr.</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Seekers</b></font> / <i>Dean And Britta</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Toussant McCall</b></font> / <i>Robert Plant</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Los Shakers</b></font> / <i>Muck and the Mires</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Impressions</b></font> / <i>The Notations</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Kathleen Grace and Larry Goldings</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Easybeats</b></font> / <i>The Weeklings</i>, and <i>The Premonitions</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Seeds</b></font> / <i>Nick Waterhouse</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b></font> / <i>Les Hay Babies</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Blossoms</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Four Tops</b></font> / <i>Jonathan Wilson</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Tim Hardin</b></font> / <i>Vagabon + Courtney Barnett</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Nina Simone</b></font> / <i>Lady Blackbird</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Black Pumas</i>, and <i>Peter Parcek</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b></font> / <i>Molly Tuttle</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Kinks</b></font> / <i>Unloved and Raven Violet</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Jefferson Airplane</b></font> / <i>The Shivas</i>, and <i>Prince Fatty + Shniece McMenamin</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The 13th Floor Elevators</b></font> / <i>The Third Mind</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Status Quo</b></font> / <i>The Colour Collection</i> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Moody Blues</b></font> / <i>Larkin Poe</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Ennio Morricone</b></font> / <i>Ikebe Shakedown</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Buffalo Springfield</b></font> / <i>Billy Porter</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>James Brown</b></font> / <i>Shawn Pittman</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Bee Gees</b></font> / <i>The Revivalists</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Artemis</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Harry Nilsson</b></font> / <i>Alyssandra Nighswonger</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Turtles</b></font> / <i>Bella Kaye</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood</b></font> / <i>Alex Kapranos and Clara Luciani</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>HAIR</b></font> / <i>Rachelle Garniez</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Margo Guryan</b></font> / <i>Bedouine</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Valentina And The Electric Post</i>, <i>The Midnight Callers</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Tommy James + The Shondells</b></font> / <i>The Shacks + The Diamond Mine</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Dusty Springfield</b></font> / <i>Meridian Brothers</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Glen Campbell</b></font> / <i>The Pen Friend Club</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Band</b></font> / <i>Larry Campbell + Teresa Williams, w/ Buddy Miller</i> • <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Creedence Clearwater Revival</b></font> / <i>Eileen Jewell</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">'70s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Creedence Clearwater Revival</b></font> / <i>Fogerty's Factory</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young</b></font> / <i>Katie Pruitt</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Kris Kristofferson</b></font> / <i>Kelsey Waldon</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Neil Young</b></font> / <i>Brad Mehldau</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Stooges</b></font> / <i>Destination Lonely</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Beach Boys</b></font> / <i>Psychic Ills</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Beatles</b></font> / <i>Joel Paterson</i>, and <i>Joan As Police Woman</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>George Harrison</b></font> / <i>Jarrod Dickenson</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Simon + Garfunkel</b></font> / <i>XIXA</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Brook Benton</b></font> / <i>Los Straitjackets</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Cat Stevens</b></font> / <i>Father John Misty</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Edwin Starr</b></font> / <i>Vintage Trouble</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Steppenwolf</b></font> / <i>Deap Lips</i> <small>(The Flaming Lips + Deap Vally)</small> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Ramin Djawadi</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>John Lennon</b></font> / <i>Dirty Projectors</i>, and <i>The Anderson Council</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Neil Young and Crazy Horse</b></font> / <i>Jeff Russo and Noah Hawley</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Pink Floyd</b></font> / <i>Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b></font> / <i>Moon Duo</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Funkadelic</b></font> / <i>Brittany Howard</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Graham Nash</b></font> / <i>Constant Bop</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Marvin Gaye</b></font> / <i>Devon Gilfillian</i>, and <i>Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b></font> / <i>BSCBR with Deradoorian</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Ann Peebles</b></font> / <i>Sister Lucille</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Nilsson</b></font> / <i>Heather Trost</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Jackson 5</b></font> / <i>Dezron Douglas</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>T. Rex</b></font> / <i>Pixies</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Yes</b></font> / <i>Allegaeon</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>John Denver</b></font> / <i>Whitney and Waxahatchee</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Steely Dan</b></font> / <i>Eli "Paperboy" Reed</i>, and <i>Julia Logan</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Dr. John</b></font> / <i>Maceo Parker</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Aerosmith</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets + Judith Hill</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>George Harrison</b></font> / <i>Sunday Someday + Anne McCue + Megan Palmer</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Pink Floyd</b></font> / <i>Ramin Djawadi</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The O’Jays</b></font> / <i>PJ Morton and Yola</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b></font> / <i>Emel</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Big Star</b></font> / <i>Bedouine, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Waxahatchee</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Sly And The Family Stone</b></font> / <i>Bootsy Collins and Larry Graham</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Nick Drake</b></font> / <i>Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Kool And The Gang</b></font> / <i>Khruangbin</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Elton John</b></font> / <i>The Fearless Flyers</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Freddy Fender</b></font> / <i>Al Green</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Stevie Wonder</b></font> / <i>Constant Bop</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Paul McCartney And Wings</b></font> / <i>Tanya Donelly and The Parkington Sisters</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Dolly Parton</b></font> / <i>Robin McKelle</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Stockhausen</b></font>/<font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Beach Boys</b></font>/<font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Star Trek</b></font>/<font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Oliveros</b></font>/<font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Muppet Movie</b></font> medley / <i>Deerhoof</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Chris Bell</b></font> / <i>Beck</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Bob Dylan</b></font> / <i>Emma Swift</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Black Sabbath</b></font> / <i>Uniform</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Led Zeppelin</b></font> / <i>H.C. McEntire</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>“Rocky Horror Picture Show”</b></font> / <i>T.S.O.L. and Keith Morris</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>America</b></font> / <i>Anna Ash</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Durand Jones And The Indications</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Stevie Wonder</b></font> / <i>Teddy Thompson</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Michael Hurley</b></font> / <i>Cass McCombs and Steve Gunn</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Fleetwood Mac</b></font> / <i>Elizabeth</i>, and <i>Julia Holter</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Donna Summer</b></font> / <i>The Organauts</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Bob Marley</b></font> / <i>Toots And The Maytals + Ziggy Marley</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Kraftwerk</b></font> / <i>Guga Stroeter, Lucio Agra, Renato Soares</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Talking Heads</b></font> / <i>Order of Operations</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Richard Hell And The Voidoids</b></font> / <i>The Bobby Lees</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Plastic Bertrand</b></font> / <i>Whyte Horses</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Elvis Costello And The Attractions</b></font> / <i>Los Straitjackets</i>, and <i>Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Chic</b></font> / <i>Lydia Ainsworth</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Buzzcocks</b></font> / <i>Adele And The Chandeliers</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The B-52’s</b></font> / <i>The Medicine Dolls</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Clash</b></font> / <i>Hinds</i>, and <i>Mattiel</i> • <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Wings</b></font> / <i>Constant Bop</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">'80s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>John Lennon</b></font> / <i>Chris Cornell</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>X</b></font> / <i>Hayley and the Crushers</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Grace Jones</b></font> / <i>Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Grover Washington Jr and Bill Withers</b></font> / <i>Rhiannon Giddens and Sxip Shirey</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Kraftwerk</b></font> / <i>Resynator + Jon Natchez</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Phil Collins</b></font> / <i>Larkin Poe</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Bruce Springsteen</b></font> / <i>Alison Mosshart</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Ramones</b></font> / <i>Brad Marino</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Queen and David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Karen O and Willie Nelson</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Joan Jett</b></font> / <i>L7</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Prince</b></font> / <i>Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings</i>, and <i>Tashaki Miyaki</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Prince</b></font> / <i>Mariachi El Bronx</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>The Cars</b></font> / <i>Soccer Mommy</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>U2</b></font> / <i>Sarah Jarosz</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>INXS</b></font> / <i>Dylan LeBlanc</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Pixies</b></font> / <i>Gouge Away</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Nirvana</b></font> / <i>Bully</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Beastie Boys</b></font> / <i>Mattiel</i> • <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Public Enemy</b></font> / <i>Public Enemy +</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">'90s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Concrete Blonde</b></font> / <i>Puss N Boots</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Chris Isaak</b></font> / <i>Messer Chups</i>, and <i>Aubrie Sellers</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Julee Cruise</b></font> / <i>Daniel Knox</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Pixies</b></font> / <i>Nation of Language</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Joan Jett</b></font> / <i>The Venomous Pinks</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Soundgarden</b></font> / <i>Brandi Carlile</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Beastie Boys</b></font> / <i>The Record Company</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Radiohead</b></font> / <i>Arlo Parks; and Danielle Ponder</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Mazzy Star</b></font> / <i>Whitehorse</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Nirvana</b></font> / <i>Hannah Williams And The Affirmations</i>, and <i>Shadwick Wilde</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Portishead</b></font> / <i>Amanda Palmer and Rhiannon Giddens</i>, and <i>Torres</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Soundgarden</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets + Maiya Sykes</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Guided By Voices</b></font> / <i>Mo Kenney</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Soundgarden</b></font> / <i>Sevendust</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Radiohead</b></font> / <i>Scary Pockets + Monica Martin</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Jeff Buckley</b></font> / <i>Emel</i> • <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Elliott Smith</b></font> / <i>Marika Hartman</i>.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">'00s and '10s Covers</font> •</b></center><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Hooverphonic</b></font> / <i>Hooverphonic</i> • <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Gillian Welch</b></font> / <i>Kevin Morby</i> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>David Bowie</b></font> / <i>Modern Nature</i> • <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Gnarls Barkley</b></font> / <i>Shadow And the Thrill</i> • <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Lana Del Rey</b></font> / <i>Vitamin String Quartet</i>.<br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">BEST REISSUES 2020<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center>
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Peggy Lee</b>, <i>"Decca Rarities"</i></font> <small>(1952-’56)</small><br />
A prolific and important period in the great Torch Singer's history, given center stage. <br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Sarah Vaughan</b>, <i>"Time After Time"</i></font> <small>(1950s)</small><br />
Let's give all the love to Jazz vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Blossom Dearie, Dinah Washington, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Anita O'Day, and Carmen McCrae that we should.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"The Right To Rock: The Mexicano And Chicano Rock 'n' Roll Rebellion 1955-1963"</i></font><br />
Rock'n'Roll was <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2007/08/big-damn-bang-of-rocknroll.html"target=_blank>everybody</a>, from the beginning. Learn the important contributions from Latinx pioneers like young Freddie Fender, Chan Romero, Los Xochimilcas, Ritchie Valens, Los Teen Tops, and Los Gibson Boys.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Pérez Prado</b>, <i>"Prez"</i></font> <small>(1956)</small><br />
The Mambo master's Top 40 smash and mainstream pinnacle, remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Eddie Cochran</b>, <i>"The Liberty Years"</i></font> <small>(1957-’64)</small><br />
A box set of the Rockabilly troubadore's entire output, remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Bessie Jones</b>, <i>"Get In Union"</i></font> <small>(1959-'66)</small><br />
Recorded by ALan Lomax, fronting the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Bessie Jones was a walking encyclopeia of folk spirituals. A mainstay on the '60s festival circuit, she sang at the Carter inauguration in '77.<br />
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<center><small>Chicano Rock; Perez Prado;<br />
Ella Fitzgerald; Joni Mitchell</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Gargano's Garage: Lavender, Magenta, Indigo, and Blue Fin Labels"</i></font> <small>(1959-’66)</small><br />
A subterranean history of the mysterious producer Vic Gargano, his myriad record label artists, and a span from Prom Rock to Psychedelia. <a href="http://www.numerogroup.com/d/garganos-garage-lavendar-magenta-indigo-blue-fin"target=_blank>></a><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Ella Fitzgerald</b>, <i>"The Lost Berlin Tapes"</i></font> <small>(rec. 1962)</small><br />
The live album <i>Ella In Berlin</i> <small>(1960)</small> is an essential classic. Her sequel tour was recorded but lost... until now.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Solomon Burke</b>, <i>"The King Of Rock 'N' Soul: The Atlantic Recordings 1962-1968"</i></font><br />
While many know Atlantic Soul giants like Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, and Aretha Franklin, not enough know the fine catalog of Solomon Burke. This box set corrects that.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Joni Mitchell</b>, <i>"Archives, Vol. 1: The Early years 1963-1967"</i></font> <br />
A box set of unreleased treasures, such as home demos, live recordings, and radio performances, by the Folk regent before she made albums.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Girls With Guitars Know Why"</i></font> <small>(mid-'60s)</small><br />
The fifth compilation in Ace Records' ongoing series celebrating the women of '60s Beat, Garage, and Psychedelia.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Lost Nuggets From The 60s: Girls In The Garage 1963-1967"</i></font><br />
While the coveted <i>Girls In The Garage</i> series was essentially bootleg, this above-ground parallel helps put these lost classics back into print and history.<br />
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<center><small>Sharhabil Ahmed; Bobbie Gentry;<br />
Elton John; The Pleasure Seekers</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Everly Brothers</b>, <i>"Down In The Bottom: The Country Rock Sessions 1966-1968"</i></font><br />
Concurrent with the Country Soul of Stax and Muscle Shoals, and preceding the rise of Swamp Pop, the brothers went to their roots in these overlooked recordings.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Los Brincos</b>, <i>"Todos Sus Exitos y Rarezas"</i></font> <small>(1964-'70)</small><br />
A fine overview of "the Spanish Beatles", who made many fine sounds from Merseybeat to Classic Rock.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Sharhabil Ahmed</b>, <i>"The King Of Sudanese Jazz"</i></font><br />
The Sleuths at the wonderful label Habibi Funk mine gold again with their anthology of the innovative guitarist, singer, and band leader.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Bobbie Gentry</b>, <i>"The Delta Sweete“</i></font> <small>(1968)</small><br />
Last year, many Alt-Folk artists did a tribute to this entire album. Listening to the original reveals how The Queen Of Swamp Pop was actually a versatile interpreter of all kinds of music. And a darn good guitarist and writer, as well.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Elton John</b>, <i>”Jewel Box”</i></font> <small>(1965-2019)</small><br />
This box set retrospective is a shocking abundance of riches.<br />
Skipping the hits, these 8 discs cover the rare and the deep of Rock's greatest showman: from B-sides and deep cuts, to the motherlode of 65 unreleased demos (!) by Elton and Bernie Taupin from the early days.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>The Feminine Complex</b>, <i>”Livin’ Love”</i></font> <small>(1969)</small><br />
The all-female band's debut album is a Pop trove of sunny Soul and groovy Beat music.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Marie Laforêt</b>, <i>”1969-1970”</i></font> <br />
More of a supple nightclub chanteuse than a Chanson idol, Laforêt is duly recognized now for her sophistication and bredth.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>The Pleasure Seekers</b>, <i>”What A Way To Die”</i></font> <small>(1964-’69)</small><br />
The all-female band, led by sisters Patti and Suzi Quatro, spanned from Beat music to a harder blues that presaged their rebirth as the ultra-Heavy <a href="https://sundazed.com/cradle-the-history-2lp.aspx"target=_blank>Cradle</a>.<br />
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<center>Jimi Hendrix</center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Jimi Hendrix</b>, <i>"”Live In Maui”</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
A fabulous remaster of the Hawaii concert, in both audio and video form, along with a new feature-length documentary about the event.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Stooges</b>, <i>”Live At Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970”</i></font> <small>(1969)</small><br />
A startling new discovery, the only soundboard recording of the original line-up of The Stooges roaring their way through all of <i>Fun House</i>, right before they fell apart.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Fanny</b>, <i>”Fanny”</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
Fanny made history as the first all-female Rock band signed to make multiple albums on a major label.<br />
This vinyl reissue of their Rockin' debut -produced by Richard Perry- proves what an excellent and dexterous Rock'n'Soul quartet they were.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>John Lennon</b>, <i>”Gimme Some Truth”</i></font> <small>(1970-’80)</small><br />
A compilation of his greatest hits, in anticipation of a new remastering of all his solo albums. A Punk with wings, before all and like no other.<br />
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<center><small>The Stooges; Marvin Gaye;<br />
The Staple Singers; Brainticket</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Doors</b>, <i>”Morrison Hotel“</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
A 50th Anniversary remastering of the essential album, with a healthy dose of extra takes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Marvin Gaye</b>, <i>”Funky Nation: The Detroit Instrumentals”</i></font> <small>(1971)</small><br />
A collection of the funky jams Marvin did with Bohannon in the wake of releasing the essential <i>What's Going On</i> album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Ennio Morricone</b>, <i>"Morricone Segreto”</i></font> <small>(late-‘60s to early-‘80s)</small><br />
Morricone did a frighteningly huge amount of film scores in this socially fertile period. Besides polishing off rarities, this collection displays the incomporable bredth and innovation of his talent.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>David Bowie</b>, <i>”Metrobolist, a.k.a., The Man Who Sold The World”</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
The 50th Anniversary rerelease of the classic, remixed by original producer Tony Visconti.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Black Sabbath</b>, <i>”Paranoid”</i></font> <small>(1970)</small><br />
One of the new remasters of the original Sabbath's catalog, this box set also includes live 1970-'71 concerts, a new book, photos, and more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Oneness Of Juju</b>, <i>"African Rhythms 1970-1982”</i></font> <br />
An American band who merged African and Afro-Cuban rhythms to Funk and Soul political songs.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Staple Singers</b>, <i>”Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection”</i></font> <small>(1968-1974)</small><br />
The Staples made many fine Gospel protest albums from the late-'50s up, but when they came to Stax Records, their star took off. Led by the inimitable guitarist Pops and the fiery frontsinger Mavis, they schooled the charts with such Funk classics as <i>"Respect Yourself"</i> and <i>"I'll Take You There"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Iggy And The Stooges</b>, <i>”You Think You’re Bad, Man? The Road Tapes ’73-’74“</i></font><br />
A five-disc bookend to the <i>”Live At Goose Lake"</i> set (1970 above), this fly/wall document of freefall follows their scorched-earth reunion tour down to its infamous finale of flung bottles and obscenities. Who's your Punk daddy now?<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Brainticket</b>, <i>”Cottonwoodhill”, “Psychonaut”</i></font> <small>(1971, 1972)</small><br />
Vinyl reissues of the electrifying German Prog band, with unsung classics like the domme poet of the Funky "<i>Pieces Of Light"</i> and the Sabbath stomp and Shankar fade-out of the intense <i>"Watchin' You"</i>.<br />
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<center><small>The Rolling Stones; African Airwaves;<br />
Make Some Noise; Elvis Costello</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Rolling Stones</b>, <i>”Goats Head Soup”</i></font> <small>(1974)</small><br />
Previously considered the fall-off after the Stones' Golden Period, this reissue gives better justice to their eclecticism. Includes extra tracks, a live concert, and an unreleased song with Jimmie Page guesting on guitar, <i>"Scarlet"</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story, 1975-1993”</i></font> <br />
Oneness Of Juju issued their own record label, with a pantheon of spiritual Jazz artists and conscious Soul acts.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980”</i></font> <br />
In mid-'70s Columbia, a producer named Machuca documented the roiling scene of Columbian/African psychedelic fusion acts. Blow your mind, wag your behind.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Neil Young</b>, <i>”Homegrown”</i></font> <small>(1975)</small><br />
The ever-fluctuating Neil finally unveils this unreleased album, a Country-Rock breakup lullaby.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"African Airways Six: Mile High Funk 1974-1981”</i></font><br />
Another funktastic collection of African women soaring.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Iggy Pop</b>, <i>"The Bowie Years“</i></font> <small>(1977-’78)</small><br />
A deluxe box set of the two Berlin albums produced by Bowie, plus outtakes, versions, an interview, a book, and live performances.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Patrick Cowley</b>, <i>”Some Funkettes”</i></font> <small>(1975-’77)</small><br />
The sixth entry in a release campaign of the influential Disco producer's works.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Make More Noise! Women In Independent Music UK 1977-1987"</i></font> <br />
Because of Feminism and Punk, more women took control in Rock during this period than ever had before. This 90-song box set and book is an important synopsis covering that wave that lifted our present.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Toms</b>, <i>"The 1979 Sessions”</i></font> <br />
Tommy Marolda dubbed himself making memorable Power Pop tunes, and created a cult following.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Elvis Costello And The Attractions</b>, <i>”Armed Forces”</i></font> <small>(1979)</small><br />
A deluxe box set of the remastered album, copious live perfomances, 10" records, lyric books, posters, postcards, and a partridge in a pear tree.<br />
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<center><small>Eve Libertine of Crass</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Use No Hooks</b>, <i>”The Job”</i></font> <small>(1979-’83)</small><br />
The unreleased recordings of an Australian PunkFunk band, with plenty of hooks and workouts to spare.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>The Last</b>, <i>”Look Again“</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
The L.A. Power Pop band's unreleased second album, remastered.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Toyah</b>, <i>”Sheep Farming In Barnet”</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
The beginning of a remastering and reissue campaign of Toyah Wilcox's works, along with other albums from the Safari Records label.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Split Enz</b>, <i>"True Colours”</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
A remixed anniversary edition of the New Zealand classic, with added live performances.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Pylon</b>, <i>”Pylon Box”</i></font> <small>(1980-’83)</small><br />
The Art Pop band from Athens, GA, gets the full treatment, with both albums remixed, B-sides and rarities, a demo setlist, and a lavish book.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Red Cross</b>, <i>"Red Cross"</i></font> <small>(1980)</small><br />
The Power Punk origins of Red Kross, before they were legally forced to change their name.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Crass</b>, <i>"Catalog Remasters"</i></font> <small>(1978-’86)</small><br />
The fiercest AnarchoPunks of all, with a remastering of their six crucial albums, including <i>Penis Envy</i> and <i>Christ: The Album</i>.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Prince And The Revolution</b>, <i>"Prince And The Revolution Live”</i></font> <small>(1985)</small><br />
Prince was king of the world in 1985 because of the smash success of <i>Purple Rain</i> <small>(1984)</small>, and this live concert -briefly available on VHS then- has been remastered for the ages.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Sun City: Artist United Against Apartheid“</i></font> <small>(1985)</small><br />
Following the worldwide success of Live Aid, Little Steven (Van Zandt) organized an all-star album to decry oppression in South Africa. It helped bring massive international awareness to overturning Apartheid, which happened in 1990. At last, this pivotal classic gets reissued.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Prince</b>, <i>”Sign ‘O The Times”</i></font> <small>(1987)</small><br />
A staggeringly deluxe box set.<br />
Prince reinvented himself with the solo double album <i>Sign ‘O The Times</i>, but he went through three unreleased albums to get there. This insanely generous set includes all of that and B-sides besides, plus live performances, a DVD concert, and a 120-page book.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Tears For Fears</b>, <i>”The Seeds Of Love”</i></font> <small>(1989)</small><br />
After the monster hits of 1985, the band took their time to make a Beatlesque album that most slept on. Time proves the wiser, with this expanded set.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Neneh Cherry</b>, <i>”Raw Like Sushi“</i></font> <small>(1989)</small><br />
While Conscious Rap and Native Tongues acts were renovating HipHop, here came the leftfield Swede to ramp up the game, with tough lyrics and bumping tunes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>L7</b>, <i>”Smell The Magic”</i></font> <small>(1990)</small><br />
The Grunge Grrrls' blistering second album, remastered for a vinyl release.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Rutles Highway Revisited"</i></font> <small>(1990)</small><br />
A tribute album to The Rutles, with covers of their first 1978 album by indie artists like Galaxie 500, Lida Husik, Das Damen, Daniel Johnston, Shonen Knife, and Bongwater.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>PJ Harvey</b>, <i>”Album Demos”</i></font> <small>(1993-’96)</small><br />
A reissue campaign of all her albums remastered this year was good enough. But in addition, companion albums of home demos for <i>Dry</i>, <i>To Bring You My Love</i>, and <i>Is This Desire?</i> were released for the first time.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Supergrass</b>, <i>”The Strange Ones: 1994-2008”</i></font><br />
For all the hoopla about the Blur and Oasis feud, the greatest Britpop band was Supergrass, whose relentless run of catchy and inventive Power Punk, Classic Rock, Glam, and Indie anthems was formidable. And now, undeniable.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Paul McCartney</b>, <i>”Flaming Pie”</i></font> <small>(1997)</small><br />
On fire with the adrenalin from <i>The Beatles Anthology</i>, Paul - with help from friends like Jeff Lynne, George Martin, and Ringo- struck up the band as only he can. A classic.<br />
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<center><small>L7; Supergrass;<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Gillian Welch</b>, <i>”Boots No. 1, 2, and 3”</i></font> <small>(2004)</small><br />
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings recorded a vault's worth of demos for copyright reasons, and now share them with us to enjoy.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Robert Plant</b>, <i>”Digging Deep: Subterranea”</i></font> <small>(1981-2020)</small><br />
As a companion to his Digging Deep podcast, Robert presents a new solo retrospective with three unreleased songs, focusing more on roots and mood.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Coathangers</b>, <i>"The Coathangers"</i></font> <small>(2007)</small><br />
The debut album of the Punk trio remastered for vinyl.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Calibro 35</b>, <i>"Calibro 35"</i></font> <small>(2010)</small><br />
The debut album of the Milan band, who specialize in funky cinematic Rock in the mode of 1969-'75 Italian soundtracks.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>The Kills</b>, <i>”Little Bastards“</i></font> <small>(2003-’20)</small><br />
This collection of B-sides and cover versions from the Blues Punk duo is basically a blasting new album in itself.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Incredible Tabla Band</b>, Shawn Lee Presents <i>”Tabla Rock”</i></font> <small>(2012)</small><br />
The 1973 classic LP <i>Incredible Bongo Band</i> sold nothing, but became the sonic bedrock for all samples of HipHop to come with songs like <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/03/rock-sex-apache-hiphops-sacred-secret.html"target=_blank>"Apache"</a>. This loving recreation of it substitutes tablas for bongos.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Lips Of Salome</b>, <i>"Sound Of Salome"</i></font> <small>(2007-’20)</small><br />
A summary of the Japanese duo's career, rooted in '60s styles expressed in new ways.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Autoramas</b>, <i>”B-Sides And Extras, Vol. 1”</i></font> <small>(2000-’20)</small><br />
The Brazilian combo surfs on Rockabilly and Garage rhythms with New Wave chops.<br />
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When women are the pirates, things actually get interesting.<br />
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The sequel to <i>Descender</i> navigates Sci-Fi and Fantasy.<br />
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Best-selling author Marjorie Liu's Gothic Fantasy, with stunning art by Sana Takeda.<br />
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Monster-hunters during the Harlem Renaissance.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>HEDRA</b></font>, <i>by Jesse Lonergan</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A one-shot art epic challenging the conventions of classic Science Fiction, panel arrangements, and perception.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>VALKYRIE JANE FOSTER</b></font>, <i>by Jason Aaron and Torunn Gronbekk (w), and Ramon Rosanas (a)</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
She was Thor, and now she is more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE MAGNIFICENT MS. MARVEL</b></font>, <i>by Saladin Ahmed and Minkyu Jung</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A relaunch title of everyone's favorite, Kamala Khan, continued by a new creative team.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BLACK PANTHER</b></font>, <i>by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuna</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates wraps up his celebrated run revitalizing T'Challa.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DAREDEVIL</b></font>, <i>by Chip ZDarsky and Marco Checchetto</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Chip Zdarsky is known as much for his writing (<i>Howard The Duck</i>) as his art (<i>Sex Criminals</i>). Now he's earning accolades with his hardboiled renovation of The Man Without Fear.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffe300"><b>STAR WARS</b></font>, Vol. II <i>by Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
For 75 issues, Volume I of this series did excellent arcs filling in the mysteries between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
Now it has relaunched from #1, unveiling dream movies between THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DARTH VADER</b></font>, Vol. II <i>by Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In complete parallel with these new stories of the rebels is a relaunch telling the Dark Lord's side of the same events, and how they overlap.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffe300"><b>STAR WARS: Doctor Aphra</b></font>, Vol. II <i>by Alyssa Wong and Marika Cresta</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Not to be undone, everyone's favorite anti-hero and smartass returns, navigating from EMPIRE to RETURN in her own pinball fashion.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>STAR WARS: The Rise Of Kylo Ren</b></font>, <i>by Charles Soule and Will Sliney</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A mini-series exploring the backstory of the Sequel Trilogy's villain.<br />
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DC Comics began when its mob-connected owners swindled two comics creators out of Superman.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Men-Tomorrow-Geeks-Gangsters-Birth/dp/0465036570"target=_Blank>></a><br />
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<b>Siegel and Shuster</b> only received proper credit and some compensation 35 years later when other brave creators like Neal Adams started championing creators rights and embarrassed the company through the press into giving it. In the '80s, as creator-owned indie comics ignited a mature comics renaissance, DC often paid lip service to now honoring creators rights. This was easier to say, now that their financial fortunes had just turned from near bankruptcy to critical darlings through the revolutionary works of one writer, <b>Alan Moore</b>. Living off his legacy ever since, they now repay him by consistently betraying him.<br />
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Let's be clear. DC has many great accomplishments in its tenure, all of which were achieved by smart creators and supportive editors. But, that creativity has often been overridden by the exploitative machinations of the larger corporations (a.k.a., legal mafias) that have owned them.<br /><a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/inside-the-flaming-dumpster-fire-at-att-warnermedia-hbo-max/"target=_blank>></a>
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Writer <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Alan Moore</b></font> and artist <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Dave Gibbons</b></font> ⇧ were promised the permanent rights to <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font>, after a first printing; in 1986, the new 'graphic novels' of the time had one printing and were done. Instead, <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and MAUS established graphic novels as a new literature in the mainstream. Exploiting the irony of its lucrative success, DC has withheld copyright ever since through endless printings. And now they franchise the stolen property through phony prequels and sequels by others to convince the public that they own it.<br />
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While the <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> TV series <small>(Like DC, HBO is also owned by Warner Bros.)</small> earned critical and fan acclaim, I'm boycotting it and here's why.<br />
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It doesn't matter about the quality of a swipe, because it's still a swipe. The only purpose for the "<i>Before WATCHMEN</i>" and "<i>Doomsday Clock</i>" comics and the TV series sequel is to deny copyright to the original creators. To support any of them is to support the criminal. Any denial of this is just a flimsy rationalization for Gimmes to consume without conscience.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Alan Moore</b></font> and <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Dave Gibbons</b></font> created <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> and it's theirs alone. They innovated everything that helps you enjoy all the titles on this Best Comics post. Be Woke by actually being aware. Stand up for real justice and support creators rights.<br />
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Forget the corporation, support the creators.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>FAR SECTOR</b></font>, <i>by N.K. Jemison and Jamal Campbell</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> (Young Animal)<br />
Gerard Way's imprint Young Animal, a variant on classic Vertigo Comics, does a unique take on the Green Lantern Corps written by noted Afrofuturist author N.K. Jemison.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE OTHER HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE</b></font>, <i>by John Ridley and Alex Dos Dias</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Oscar-winning writer/director John Ridley (<i>12 Years A Slave</i>; TV's <i>American Crime</i>) reviews historic moments in DC's history as experienced by heroes pushed to the margins.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Superman’s Pal, JIMMY OLSON</b></font>, <i>by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A postmodern twist on Silver Age fun.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BLACK HAMMER / JUSTICE LEAGUE</b></font>, <i>by Jeff Lemire and Michael Walsh</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Like <i>Astro City</i> and <i>Planetary</i>, the BLACK HAMMER series has been an alternate universe of postmodern superhero deconstruction. Here they meet the originals.<br />
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<center>Karen Berger</center><br />
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In a just universe, Karen Berger would be the one running DC Comics instead of the Corps. She helmed the original/actual Vertigo Comics, the standard which all current Indie companies are imitating, and now she has her own imprint of creator-owned titles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>TOMORROW</b></font>, <i>by Peter Milligan and Jesus Hervas</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
When a computer virus morphs into a devestating human pandemic, the youth must stave off dystopia.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STAR TREK: Year Five</b></font>, <i>by various teams</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Imagining the final missions of the Original Series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine - Too Long A Sacrifice</b></font>, <i>by Scott and David Tipton (w) and Greg Scott (a)</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 4-issue miniseries spotlighting Odo solving a Noir mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>FIREFLY</b></font>, <i>by Greg Pak and Lalit Kumar Sharma</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Revitalized at its new comics company, FIREFLY burns bright in all-new stories by noted writer Greg Pak (<i>Star Wars</i>).<br>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DOCTOR WHO: The Thirteenth Doctor</b></font>, <i>by Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Whittaker meets Tennant!<br />
'The Thirteenth Doctor' goes Mod with 'The Tenth Doctor' in mid-'60s Swinging London.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BLADE RUNNER 2019</b></font>, <i>by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, and Andres Guinaldo</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The first canon comic sequel, by Michael Green (the co-writer of the film sequel <i>Blade Runner 2049</i>), opens up new vistas in the raining city.<br>
<small>(The series continued forward in 2021 under the title BLADE RUNNER 2029.)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>WE LIVE</b></font>, <i>by Inaki and Roy Miranda</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br>
A battle for destiny between monsters, aliens, and children who can redeem the future.<br>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>VAMPIRELLA</b></font> Facsimile Edition, <i>by Various Creators</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br>
Exact reprint facsimiles of classic magazine issues #1 <small>(Sep 1969)</small>, #3 <small>(Jan 1970)</small>, and #30 <small>(Jan 1974)</small>. Come for the full Warren Magazine experience, stay for the eternal art by Jose Gonzalez.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ff8000"><h2><b>A H O Y</b></h2></font></center><br /><br>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BILLIONAIRE ISLAND</b></font>, <i>by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Russell and Pugh keep writing the book for the times.<br />
Criminally shorted by the abrupt cancellation of their brave political satire <i>PREZ</i>, Russell and Pugh channeled it into the success of <i>The Flintstones</i>. Now they press onward into their hilarious creator-owned salvo against the greedy, the stupid, and the cruel.<br />
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<center><b><i><font COLOR="ffbf00">"Hey, Kids!</font> <font COLOR="ffe300">Comics!"</font></i></b></center><br>
From the '30s to the '80s, comics unified all of the kids in the world.<br />
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Comics spinner racks were omnipresent in every grocery, newstand, and drugstore, a world of dreams in color for small change. But after 50 years, this changed.<br />
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As the fans grew older, comics grew more mature (and gradually more expensive). In the early-'80s, comics disappeared from common spaces to be sold only in individual comic stores. This was the best and worst thing that could have happened: the select stores became a lab for the medium to grow up with adult fans, but this Comics Renaissance left all the kids behind with no entry point. Now that three decades have passed, the young have moved on to games and streaming, seeing superheroes nowadays only in films that are meant for those longtime adult readers.<br />
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Roy Thomas once said, "The Golden Age of Comics is <b>8</b>."<br />
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Comics should still be a fun spark for kids. Now, with the spectacular success of Raina Telgemeier's books, various publishers are finally figuring this out. A wide movement to provide more all-ages comics has risen. From single comics to trade paperbacks, there are many new entry points for young readers to join in and open up their imaginations.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>MARVEL ACTION</b></font>, <i>by various teams</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Marvel and IDW collaborate in creating an all-ages series of <i>Marvel Action</i> titles which include The Avengers, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Spider-Man.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STAR WARS ADVENTURES</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All-ages adventures of the film and TV animated characters in new stories.<br />
Rey!<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STRANGER THINGS</b></font>, <i>by Various Creators</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Naturally our arcane argonauts would have their own comic.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffe300"><h2><b>A M E R I C A N<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>CASPER Spotlight: Hot Stuff Sizzlers</b></font>, <i>by various</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 2-issue reprint of the classic Harvey Comics characters.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>CASPER’s Spookville</b></font>, <i>by various</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 4-issue reprint of the classic Harvey Comics characters.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE As Seen On TV</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Reprints of the '60s comics from their heyday.<br />
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The publishing giant partnered with DC Comics for the <i>Step Into Reading</i> series, with entry level books for new readers. (4-6)<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>DC: Wonder Woman Saves The Trees</b></font> <i>by Christy Webster and Eric Doescher</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>DC Superhero Girls: Fierce Competition</b></font>, <i>by Erica David (w) and Franceso Legramandi and Gabriella Matta (a)</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>DC: My Dad Is A Superhero</b></font>, <i>by Dennis R. Shealy and Red Central LTD.</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>DC: My Mom Is A Superhero</b></font>, <i>by Rachel Chlebowski and Red Central LTD.</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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They also publish <i>Screen Comix</i>, books which combine film stills with word balloons to make comic adaptations of entire films. (8-12)<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>STAR WARS:
The Empire Strikes Back</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"Luminous beings are we."<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STAR WARS:
The Rise Of Skywalker</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"Nothing is impossible."<br />
Rey!<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>STAR WARS:
The Clone Wars</b></font>, Season 7, Vol. 1<font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
This adapts the first half of the finale season of the animated series.<br />
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* <small>see also, <i>The Mandalorian</i> (March 2021)</small>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>Raina Telgemeier BOX SET:
Five Book Collection</b></font>, <i>by Raina Telgemeier</i> (Scholastic/Graphix) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Raina Telgemeier is the JK Rowling of comics, bringing more young readers in with her wildly popular and fun confessional books than anyone in the industry.
This set collects her books <i>Smile</i>, <i>Drama</i>, <i>Sisters</i>, <i>Ghosts</i>, and <i>Guts</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>TWINS</b></font>, <i>by Shannon Wright and Varian Johnson</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
How will twin sisters deal with growing apart and becoming themselves?<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>LITTLE LULU, Vol. 2: The Fuzzythingus Poopi</b></font>, <i>by John Stanley</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A collection of classic reprints.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>ADVENTURE TIME: Princess Bubblegum</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
New adventures for the adorable scientist.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>ADVENTURE TIME: Fionna And Cake</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All-new tales of everyone's favorite alternate heroes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STEAM</b></font>, <i>by Drew Ford and Duane Leslie</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
A steampunk adventure for young readers, with a hearty ecological messsage.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>Disney MULAN’s Adventure Journal:
The Palace Of Secrets</b></font>, <i>by Rhona Cleary and Agnesse Innocente</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This should have been MULAN's year.<br />
Although the pandemic scuttled the release of the new film, this book carries kids into her exciting world.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>SPACE BOY</b></font> #6, #7, and #8, <i>by Stephen McCranie</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The ongoing graphic novels of the spacetrotter.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>S P A R K N O T E S</b></font></center><br />
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The <i>“No Fear Shakespeare”</i> series matches the Bard’s words to comics panels for entry readers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>MACBETH</b></font>, <i>illustrated by Ken Hoshine</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>HAMLET</b></font>, <i>illustrated by Neil Babra</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>ROMEO AND JULIET</b></font>, <i>illustrated by Matt Wiegle</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>F I R S T<br />
S E C O N D</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>ONE YEAR AT ELLSMERE</b></font>, <i>by Faith Eric Hicks</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Faith Eric Hicks excels at fantastic adventure with strong stories and vivid characters.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>SCIENCE COMICS: Rocks And Minerals</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>HISTORY COMICS: The Great Chicago Fire -Rising From The Ashes</b></font>, <i>by Kay Melchisedech Olson</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>POESY, The Monster Slayer</b></font>, <i>by Cory Doctorow and Matt Rockefeller</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>NICO BRAVO</b></font> vol. 2, <i>by Mike Cavallero</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>N O B R O W<br />
P R E S S</b></font></center><br />
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With the smash success of the HILDA Netflix cartoon based Luke Pearson’s books, Nobrow has adapted first season episodes into entry books.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>HILDA And The Hidden People</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">____</font> (#1)<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>HILDA And The Great Parade</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">____</font> (#2)<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>HILDA And The Nowhere Space</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">___</font> (#3)<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>HILDA And The Time Worm</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">____</font> (#4)<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>HILDA And The Ghost Ship</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">____</font> (#5)<br />
<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>HILDA And The White Woff</b></font> <font COLOR="00ccff">____</font> (#6)<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>AKISSI: Even More Tales Of Mischief</b></font> (Book 3), <i>by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everyone's favorite troublemaker from the Ivory Coast stirs up more manic fun.<br />
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A R C H<br />
B O O K S</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>MR. KAZARIAN, Alien Librarian</b></font>, <i>by Steve Foxe and Gary Boller</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The alien archivist shows kids a whole new slant on things.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>LITTLE<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>GOLDIE VANCE: The Hotel Whodunit</b></font> (Book 3), <i>by Lilliam Rivera and Elle Power</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
More mysteries for our stealthy sleuth.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>K A Z O O<br />
M A G A Z I N E</b></font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>NOISEMAKERS: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices And Changed The World</b></font>, <i>Edited by Erin Bried</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Bring the noise, raise awareness.<br />
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Resources:<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.comicshoplocator.com/"target=_blank>Comic Shop Locator</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://bookshop.org/"target=_blank>BookShop.org</a><br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.kidscomics.com"target=_blank>Kidscomics.com</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/"target=_blank>School Library Journal: Good Comics For Kids</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/12/20/21029548/best-comics-for-kids-graphic-novels"target=_blank>50 Best Comics + Graphic Novels For Kids</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com"target=_blank>The Big Blog Of Kids' Comics!</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://www.europecomics.com/comics-for-children/"target=_blank>European Comics For Children</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens"target=_blank>13 Great Webcomics For Kids and Teens</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>LEONARDO 2</b></font>, Vol. 1 <i>by Stephane Levallois</i> <small>(NBM)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A <i>Metal Hurlant</i>-style epic of Da Vinci's clone reconciling a galactic war, illustrated in his pen, wash, and painting styles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>I, RENE TARDI, PRISONER OF WAR AT STALAG IIB, Vol. 3:<br />
After The War</b></font>, <i>by Rene Tardi</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The aftermath of the French cartoonist's internment in a German WWII prison camp.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE:<br />
The Graphic Novel</b></font>, <i>by Kurt Vonnegut; Ryan North (w) and Albert Monteys (a)</i> <small>(Archaia)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The expressive cartoonist adapts the timeless and time-rending novel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ANIMAL FARM</b></font>, <i>by George Orwell, illustrated by Odyr</i> <small>(Mariner Books)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A painted version of the fable meant for all adults.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>YEAR OF THE RABBIT</b></font>, <i>by Tian Veasna</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The true story of a family's struggle to survive and escape the Khmer Rouge.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>UNDER-EARTH</b></font>, <i>by Chris Gooch</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An allegory set in a landfill prison, where duos dig through the past trying to find love, hope, and release.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE MAGIC FISH</b></font>, <i>by Trung Le Nguyen and Patrick Crotty</i> <small>(Random House)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A beautiful all-ages identity story told with great heart, lyrical art, and complex grace.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ALMOST AMERICAN GIRL:<br />
An Illustrated Memoir</b></font>, <i>by Robin Ha</i> <small>(Balzer + Bray)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Dislocated from Korea to Alabama, a teen girl processes her turmoil through making comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD</b></font>, <i>by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan</i> <small>(Bloomsbury)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A collection of the New York Times strips; escaping Syria, a family's dreams of the American ideal are thrashed trying to survive the Trump era.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE WOLF OF BAGHDAD</b></font>, <i>by Carol Isaacs</i> <small>(Myriad)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After WWII, the Jewish population of Iraq was decimated. This visual psalm tries to reconcile what was lost from the vantage of a survivor.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>PHOOLAN DEVI, Rebel Queen</b></font>, <i>by Claire Fauvel</i> <small>(Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Devi was like the Robin Hood or the Che Quevara of India, threading the rigid caste system to become a crucial political voice.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>REDBONE:<br />
The True Story Of A Native American Rock Band</b></font>, <i>by Christian Staebler and Sonia Paoloni (w), and Thibault Balahy (a)</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Many know Redbone for their hit song, <i>"Come And Get Your Love"</i> (used in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). But the first Native American rock band on a major label were also proud activists and musical pioneers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>KENT STATE:<br />
Four Dead In Ohio</b></font>, <i>by Derf Backderf</i> <small>(Abrams Comicarts)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 1970, the government murdered protest.<br />
Backderf (<i>My Friend Dahmer</i>), with canny timing, traces the events that led to the National Guard killing peaceful student dissenters, chilling the movement and setting the current Police State suppression machine in motion.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>WE SERVED THE PEOPLE:<br />
My Mother’s Stories</b></font>, <i>by Emei Burell</i> <small>(Archaia)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A memoir of her mother's struggles under Maost doctrine in the '70s.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>TIANANMEN 1989:<br />
Our Shattered Hopes</b></font>, <i>by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud (w), and Améziane (a)</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Kent State reincarnated.<br />
The true story of a wave of youth activists standing up to Communist authority before the eyes of the world, and the irredeemable horror brought to bear on them.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THOREAU AND ME</b></font>, <i>by Cedric Taling</i> <small>(SelfMadeHero)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Recognizing that our climate crisis mirrors the greedy carnage of the Industrial Revolution on nature, a young artist communes with Thoreau's spirit to find a better path..<br />
> <a href="https://selfmadehero.com"target=_blank>SelfMadeHero.com</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH</b></font>, <i>by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, and Aditya Bidikar</i> <small>(Image)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
If all conspiracies are actually true, who do you trust and what do you do?<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE LEAGUE OF SUPER FEMINISTS</b></font>, <i>by Mirion Malle</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A primer of the basic concepts of Feminism, in everyday terms.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED</b></font>, <i>by R. Sikoryak</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Sikoryak (<i>Masterpiece Comics</i>, <i>Terms And Conditions</i>) scores again, demystifying the U.S. Constitution with vignettes starring a century of comics and cartoon characters, drawn in their signature styles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>UNRIG:<br />
How To Fix Our Broken Democracy</b></font>, <i>by Daniel G. Newman and George O’Connor</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This expose of the Big Money that corrupts the American political system also provides solutions that can empower its true owners, the People.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>PLUTOCRACY:<br />
Chronicles Of A Global Monopoly</b></font>, <i>by Abraham Martinez</i> <small>(NBM)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 2051, The Company rules the world. Can one person investigating the roots of this capitalist dystopia bring down the rich who oppress us all?<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DRAGMAN</b></font>, <i>by Steven Appleby</i> <small>(Cape)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A wry tale of a superman in womens clothing, taking on a jaded era of literal soul-selling greed.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE WIZERD!<br />
And The Potion Of Dreams!</b></font>, <i>by Michael Sweater and Rachel Dukes</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A free-wheeling spoof on Fantasy where turning traditions inside out is all the fun.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>A GIFT FOR A GHOST</b></font>, <i>by Borja Gonzalez</i> <small>(Abrams)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Mary Shelley meets Riot Grrrl. An intersecting tale of a 19th Century goth and her macrabre poetry mashed-up with a modern punk trio who are all razz and no chops.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>WITCH HAT ATELIER</b></font>, <i>by Kamome Shirhama</i> <small>(Kodansha)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The ongoing manga about the aspiring mage and the byzantine plot to empower/disempower her.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>A MAP TO THE SUN</b></font>, <i>by Sloane Leong</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A YA character drama about a girls basketball team and their struggles with personal trust and shifting futures.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>APSARA ENGINE</b></font>, <i>by Bishakh Som</i> <small>(Feminist Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A conceptual atlas of eight stories which challenge the social borders of gender, explore for the more, and open up personal vistas.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>MADI:<br />
Once Upon A Time In The Future</b></font>, <i>by Duncan Jones and Alex Di Campi</i> (Z2 Comics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Duncan Jones debuted to rave reviews writing and directing his movie MOON <small>(2009)</small>, an homage to timeless '70s SciFi films. He expanded that storyline to Earth with the Netflix film, MUTE <small>(2018)</small>, homaging '80s Tech Noir films. This original graphic novel rounds the 'MOONiverse trilogy' to completion.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>STREETS OF PARIS, STREETS OF MURDER</b></font>, Vol. 1 <i>by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Beginning a two-volume collection of all of Tardi's crime noir stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DON’T GO WITHOUT ME</b></font>, <i>by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell</i> <small>(Shortbox)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A speculative fiction troika, each story a poetic meditation on ardor and yearning.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DAIRY RESTAURANT</b></font>, <i>by Ben Katchor</i> <small>(Schocken Books)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Ben Katchor is the Charles Bukowski of cartoonists, the Studs Terkel of graphic novels. Here, his blocky skritches array an engaging tapestry of restaurant history, social insight, and puckish trivia into a master thesis.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE WINTER OF THE CARTOONIST</b></font>, <i>by Paco Roca</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Under 1957 Spanish Fascism, five brave cartoonists dare to take on the corrupt system in this true story.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST</b></font>, <i>by Adrian Tomine</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Designed like a sketchbook, this memoir by the acclaimed cartoonist Tomine questions his life path and career choice with startling sensitivity and genuine revelation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE BOOK TOUR</b></font>, <i>by Andi Watson</i> <small>(Top Shelf)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A very Kafka mystery, in which a minor author threads weirdness with pithy aplomb.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>WENDY, MASTER OF ART</b></font>, <i>by Walter Scott</i> <small>(Drawn And Quarterly)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Told in loose Indie style, this art college satire careens through polyamory, sexual politics, semiotics, and personal graduation along its tumble.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>TINDERELLA</b></font>, <i>by M.S. Harkness</i> <small>(Uncivilized Books)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Smarts about stupidity. Online dating, power lifting, bone-poverty, rotten behaviour, and rude lessons ensue.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DESPERATE PLEASURES</b></font>, <i>by M.S. Harkness</i> <small>(Uncivilized Books)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Following up the noted TINDERELLA, Harkness channels Daniel Clowes insight with Dori Seda bluntness in this party/hangover.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DRAWN TO SEX:<br />
Our Bodies and Health</b></font>, <i>by Matthew Nolan and Erika Moen</i> <small>(Oni Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This second volume, after the intro <i>Drawn To Sex: The Basics</i> <small>(2018)</small>, continues a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement#:~:text=Sex%2Dpositivity%20is%20%22an%20attitude,as%20part%20of%20its%20campaign."target=_blank>Sex Positive</a> tour of healthy sensuality, all fun and no judgements.<br />
> <a href="https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/category/comic/education-comic/"target=_blank>Oh Joy Sex Toy</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>HEY AMATEUR!</b></font>, <i>Edited by Shelly Bond</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
100 famous creators show you how to do most anything in single-page, nine-panel courses. Join Mike Allred, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Becky Cloonan, Paul Pope, Gail Simone, Gene Ha, Gilbert Hernandez, Leah Moore, and more in blowing up your mind.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <b><font COLOR="00cc00">EC ARCHIVES:</font><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf">Impact</font><br />
<font COLOR="00cc00">Psychoanalysis</font><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf">War Against Crime</font></b>, Vol. 2<br />
<i>by Multiple Creators</i> <small>(Dark Horse)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
EC Comics invented comics for adults in the early-'50s, and were crucified for it.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235"target=_blank>></a><br />
After the censorship kicked in, EC bowed out with these final comics titles, retrenching into the smash success of Mad Magazine.<br />
Stories by Feldstein, Crandell, Krigstein, Davis, Orlando, Kamen, Craig, and more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>TERROR TRAIN<br />
And Other Stories</b></font> , <i>by Al Feldstein</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All of writer/artist Feldstein's crime and horror classics in one black/white volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>ACCIDENTS AND OLD LACE<br />
And Other Stories</b></font>, <i>by Graham Ingels and Al Feldstein</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An overview of illustrator Ingels' work on crime and horror perennials in one black/white volume.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SKY MASTERS Of The Space Force:<br />
The Complete Dailies 1958-1961</b></font>, <i>by Dave and Dick Wood (w), Jack Kirby, Wallace Wood, and Dick Ayers (a)</i> <small>(Hermes Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The space-faring strip collected, most notable for the all-too-brief stint where Jack Kirby's pencils were inked by Wallace Wood (of EC Comics fame).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Jack Kirby: FANTASTIC FOUR Artisan Edition</b></font>, <i>by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Joe Sinnott</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The real page art, photographed and printed in actual size. This compilation catches the series and its creators at their peak, with five important tales from 1968 and 1969.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE ETERNALS:<br />
The Complete Collection</b></font> Remastered, <i>by Jack Kirby</i> <small>(Marvel)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Upon his return to Marvel in the latter-'70s, Kirby rethought his New Gods concepts as The Eternals, templating the Marvel Films epic ETERNALS <small>(2021)</small>, directed by Chloé Zhao.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SUPERMAN Vs. WONDER WOMAN</b></font> Tabloid Edition, <i>by Gerry Conway and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A full-size reproduction of the 1978 tabloid-format tome, in which the two powerhouses wrestle over the nuclear future.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN</b></font> , <i>by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 1946, the wildly popular Superman radio show bravely called out bigotry, with our hero busting the Klan. In this modern 3-issue series, Yang (<i>American Born Chinese</i>) reinterprets that historic tale through a deeper personal lens.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>YOU BROUGHT ME THE OCEAN</b></font>, <i>by Ales Sanchez and Julie Maroh</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Coming-of-age and coming-out. Award-winning author Sanchez and bestselling writer/artist Maroh (BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR) turn traumatic aquaphobia into a wellspring of love.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SHADOW OF THE BATGIRL</b></font>, <i>by Sarah Kuhn, Nicole Goux, Cris Peter, and Janice Chiang</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Cassandra Cain was a beautiful concept which was brutally maimed.<br />
In the early-'00s, the Asian-American hero inheriting the mantle of Batgirl suffered every atrocity a hack male creator could throw at a female character <small>(see also: X-23)</small> before fading away. This rethink, by an all-female team, restores and revitalizes the eeriest, edgiest Bat-hero of all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Michael Golden’s<br />
MICRONAUTS Artist’s Edition</b></font>,<br />
<i>by Bill Mantlo (w) and Michael Golden (p),<br />
<small>with Josef Rubenstein and Al Milgrom (i)</small></i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
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The first 12 issues of THE MICRONAUTS <small>(1978-'79)</small> were the <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html"target=_blank>STAR WARS</a> of comics.<br />
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The seismic success of that 1977 film rewrote the film industry, Science Fiction in the mainstream, SFX production, and creative potential overnight. While many scrambled to answer that challenge across the next decade, maybe none succceeded more spectacularly than the most unlikely and overlooked of sources.<br />
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While Marvel Comics was being saved from bankruptcy by their fortunate licensing of STAR WARS, Takara's Microman toyline was doing solid success in the USA as The Micronaut line by Mego. Shrewdly, Marvel licensed the action figures with the mandate of a Lucas-esque space opera. They got more than they could have hoped for.<br />
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Veteran writer <b>Bill Mantlo</b> and upcoming artist <b>Michael Golden</b> went for glory, turning toys into arthouse through a complex stellar saga with intricate world-building, overarched by wonder and underlined by mystery. The heady brew cauldroned elements of Flash Gordon, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, NASA, The New Wave Of Science Fiction, Herbert's "<i>Dune</i>", Zelazny's "<i>Lord Of Light</i>", von Däniken's "<i>Chariots Of The Gods</i>", Lee and Kirby's FANTASTIC FOUR, Gerber's MAN-THING, Ditko's DOCTOR STRANGE, Starlin's CAPTAIN MARVEL, DIAL "H" FOR HERO, <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/09/rock-sex-jim-steranko-agent-of-style.html"target=_blank>Steranko</a>'s NICK FURY, and -subliminally- <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html"target=_blank>2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</a>, along with cyborgs, dystopia, revolution, spirituality, and family drama.<br />
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Mantlo (like Lee) fired off the sprawling scope, ricochet plotting, and stentorian melodrama. Golden (like Kirby and Ditko) built the impossible worlds, micro and macro: Homeworld, the molecular chain wrapped in cities; their sanscrit alphabet; the consistent, blueprinted architecture of the Body Banks and H.E.L.L; the quiet visual clues leading to the climactic big reveal. Along the way, Golden found his signature style <small>(issue #8)</small> and cult status. The brave experiment crescendoed with the stunning MICRONAUTS #11, one of the greatest comics ever made.<br />
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In retrospect, THE MICRONAUTS should have been a 12-issue maxi-series and stopped. After Golden left, everything diminished. The Marvel series devolved through declining follow-ups, and -after the loss of the franchise rights- into pale imitations by later comics companies. But the innovations and impact of Mantlo and Golden's MICRONAUTS resonate to this day, from the continuous comics stories of the polymorphous Captain Universe, to the subatomic Microverse (as the Quantum Realm) seen in ANT-MAN and AVENGERS films, to Mantlo's sidebar character Rocket Raccoon in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.<br />
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Because of legal rights issues, this huge compendium is the first reprinting of any of the material since 1983. IDW's Artist Editions carefully photograph original comic art at full size; this reverential tome reprints all of issues #3, #7, #8, #9, <b>#11</b>, and #12, plus key pages from all other issues, the covers, and rare pin-ups. For fandom, it is a long-held dream come true.<br />
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And, hopefully, it opens the door for a fully remastered reprinting by Marvel of the original 12 issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Walter Simonson’s THE MIGHTY THOR Artisan Edition</b></font>, <i>by Walter Simonson</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
After Lee and Kirby's original '60s run, the most revered arc of THOR is by writer/artist Walt Simonson in the mid-'80s. Its influence was so keen on the THOR films that Simonson had a cameo as an Asgardian.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE SANDMAN: Overture<br />
- J.H. Williams III Gallery Edition</b></font>, <i>by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III</i> <small>(Graphitti Designs)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
After many years, Gaiman wrote a new Sandman story. This deluxe version focuses directly on the lush illustrations of the chameleonic Williams at full scale without text.<br />
<small>(A smaller texted version is included for reading.)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>P. Craig Russell’s THE SELFISH GIANT<br />
And Other Stories Fine Art Edition</b></font>, <i>by P. Craig Russell</i> <small>(Wayne Alan Harold)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Since his breakthrough illustrating the acclaimed KILLRAVEN series, Russell's art nouveau grace has made him an artists artist.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>LONE SLOANE: Chaos</b></font>, Vol. 1, <i>by Phillippe Druillet</i> <small>(Titan)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The 1978 chapter of the Odyssean astronaut by the grandiose Druillet, a visionary artist who co-founded <i>Metal Hurlant</i> magazine with Moebius.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>FRANKENSTEIN</b></font>, <i>by Mary Shelley and Berni Wrightson</i> <small>(Hermes Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Originally printed in 1983, Wrightson's illustrations for the classic text ignited universal praise. The 50 pieces, a labor of love across seven years done in the painstaking style of Golden Age Of Illustration giants like Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin Booth, are reproduced at large size, along with the full text, showcasing the master at his peak.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>CORTO MALTESE:<br />
Mu The Lost Continent</b></font>, <i>by Hugo Pratt</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The twelth and final adventure from 1988 brings the sailor's journey full circle.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Collected TOPPI, vol. 3:<br />
South America</b></font>, <i>by Sergio Toppi</i> <small>(Lion Forge)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Sergio Toppi has been one of the finest illustrators of the last 50 years.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Collected TOPPI, vol. 4:<br />
The Cradle Of Life</b></font>, <i>by Sergio Toppi</i> <small>(Lion Forge)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Every volume by Sergio Toppi is a master class in line, color, design + composition, and visual storytelling.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE LEGEND OF KORRA:<br />
Ruins Of The Empire</b></font>, <i>by Michael Dante DiMartino and Michelle Wong</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An original sequel following on from the lauded 4-season animated series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>LITTLE BIRD:<br />
The Fight For Elder’s Hope</b></font>, <i>by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram</i> <small>(Image)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The 5-issue series spanning galactic reaches and inner dreams compiled.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ADVENTUREMAN, Vol. 1:<br />
The End and Everything After</b></font> (1995), <i>by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson</i> <small>(Image)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The frighteningly prolific Fraction thrills us with Pulp yesteryears that now become a mother and son's new frontiers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>TARTARUS</b></font>, <i>by Johnnie Christmas and Jack T. Cole</i> <small>(Image)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Imagine Mos Eisley with Afrofuturist edge and DUNE-esque intrigue.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BE GAY, DO COMICS</b></font>, <i>by Various Creators</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A fun anthology of over 30 creators examining the LGBTQIA possibilities, from contributions to The Nib <small>(see 'Best Webcomics' below)</small>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE ETERNAUT</b></font> <small>(1957-'59)</small>, <i>by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A remastering of the late-'50s Argentine classic of Cold War fear and new world hopes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>BARBARELLA</b></font> <small>(1964, 1974)</small>, <i>by Jean-Claude Forest</i> <small>(Humanoids)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A remastering of Book 1 <small>(1964)</small> and Book 2 <small>(1974)</small>, newly translated from French to English by Kelly Sue DeConnick (<i>Captain Marvel</i>, <i>Bitch Planet</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>MERMAID SAGA</b></font> <small>(1984-'94)</small>, <i>by Rumiko Takahashi</i> <small>(Viz)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Takahashi's classic, a journey through immortality and lost humanity, which inspired the 2003 animated series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Absolute SWAMP THING<br />
by Alan Moore, Vol. 2</b></font> <small>(1985-’86)</small>, <i>by Alan Moore, Stephen R, Bissette, and John Totleben, +</i> <small>(DC)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
<b>Alan Moore</b> first seeded the '80s Comics Renaissance with his British series, <i>MarvelMan</i> <small>(1982)</small>.<br />
But it wildflowered to the world with his US work on <i>Swamp Thing</i>.<br />
This is a remastered omnibus of the middle, with new <small>(dull airbrush)</small> coloring.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STUCK RUBBER BABY</b></font> <small>(1995)</small>, <i>by Howard Cruse</i> <small>(First Second)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Cruse's groundbreaking semi-memoir of braving homophobia and bigotry in the mid-'60s South gets a 25th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Alison Bechdel (<i>Fun Home</i>).<br />
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<center><small>Bottom: comparison of the original B/W art<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>FROM HELL:<br />
Master Edition</b></font> <small>(1989-’98)</small>, <i>by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell</i> <small>(Top Shelf)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A new remastering of the ultimate Jack The Ripper examination, in which artist Campbell adds muted color to the black/white tale, and some quiet tweaks for visual clarity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE FLAPPER QUEENS:<br />
Women Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age</b></font>, <i>by Trina Robbins</i> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Trina Robbins, a pioneer in the Underground Comix movement and comics historian, once again enlightens us on female artists for the ages.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DRAWING LINES:<br />
An Anthology Of Women Cartoonists</b></font>, <i>with Joyce Carol Oates, Colleen Coover, Roberta Gregory, Trina Robbins, and Gail Simone +</i> <small>(IDW)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
This treasury of a dozen stories gives proper due to many pivotal pioneers.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>INVISIBLE MEN:<br />
The Trailblazing Black Artists Of Comic Books</b></font>, <i>by Ken Quattro</i> <small>(Yoe)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The great Matt Baker has gotten long overdue fanfare in recent years. This insightful book expands outward to other creators from the Golden Age Of Comics who deserve our attention, bringing us full comics stories, art, and photos.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>JACK KIRBY:<br />
The Epic Life Of The King Of Comics</b></font> , <i>by Tom Scioli</i> <small>(Ten Speed Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A comics bio of The King, told in an almost manga style.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>HISTORY OF EC COMICS</b></font>, <i>by Grant Geissman</i> <small>(Taschen)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 600-page history of the most notorious comics company of all time, with new info, the infamous covers, key stories, and photos galore.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>MASTERS OF BRITISH COMIC ART</b></font>, <i>by Ken Quattro</i> <small>(Art Masters)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Following his <i>Masters of Spanish Comic Book Art</i>, Roach rescues British artists and (often literally) their work from obscurity and neglect, distilling the eclectic grab-bag of English cartooning into one cornucopia.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>COMICS AND ADAPTATION</b></font>, <i>Edited by Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabell Schmitt-Pitiot</i> <small>(University Press Of Mississippi)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Literature has been adapted by comics, comics have been adapted to the screen. This scholarly book of essays examines the process of both through a formal and contextual perspective.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ALTER EGO</b></font> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The original '60s comics fanzine that pioneered all of modern fandom, with deep stories on the Golden and Silver Age creators, is an ongoing mag still edited by Roy Thomas.<br />
> <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98"target=_blank>Alter Ego</a>
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BACK ISSUE!</b></font> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Dedicated to the '70s and '80s renaissance.<br />
> <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98"target=_blank>Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ILLUSTRATION</b></font> <small>(The Illustrated Press)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The best illustrators celebrated by the smartest illustration mag.<br />
> <a href="http://www.illustration-magazine.com"target=_blank>Illustration</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>RETROFAN</b></font> <small>(TwoMorrows)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Everything pop cultural from the '60s through the '80s.<br />
> <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_152"target=_blank>Illustration</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE COMICS JOURNAL</b></font> <small>(Fantagraphics)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The premiere scholastic graphic arts forum, now printed in an annual volume.<br />
> <a href=“https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/the-comics-journal”target=_blank>The Comics Journal</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STAR TREK</b></font> <small>(Titan)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"These are the voyages..."<br />
> <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-trek-magazine"target=_blank>Star Trek</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>STAR WARS INSIDER</b></font> <small>(Titan)</small> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"An energy field created by all living things..."<br />
> <a href="https://titan-comics.com/magazines/?tag__series=star-wars-insider"target=_blank>Star Wars Insider</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <h2><font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>WONDER WOMAN 1984</b></i></font></h2><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.</b></i></font> 7<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>DOOM PATROL</b></i></font> 2<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>UMBRELLA ACADEMY</b></i></font> 2<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>SNOWPIERCER</b></i></font> 1
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See Also:<br />
<font COLOR=#ffffff>></font> <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a>,<br />
THE Comic Movies Review Site!<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SOFT LEAD</b></font>, <i>by Chan Chau</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Clark and Bruce just hanging out, being real.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://heartstoppercomic.tumblr.com/post/148737198070"><b>HEARTSTOPPER</b></a>, <i>Alice Oseman</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A tale of friendship and coming out.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="fffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/nancy"target=_blank>NANCY</a>, by Olympia Jaimes <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Under a pseudonym, someone is upgrading the classic strip's mindtricks for the digital age.<br />
"Sluggo is lit" and you should get literate, too.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive"target=_blank>PRINCE VALIANT</a>, by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Schultz (<i>Xenozoic Tales</i>) and Yeates (<i>Timespirits</i>) are doing excellent work continuing Hal Foster's masterwork into the 21st century.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://thenib.com"target=_blank>The Nib</a> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
RESIST!<br />
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<center><h2><b><font COLOR="ffe300">R E S T</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffbf00">I N</font><br />
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From you, we exist.<br />
Because of you, we persist.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Claire Bretecher<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Alice Schenker<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Juan Gimenez<br />
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<small>Claire Bretecher; Juan Gimenez;<br />
Mort Drucker; Denny O'Neil</small></center>
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Mort Drucker<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Dennis O’Neil<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Joe Sinnott<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Milton Glaser<br />
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<center><small>Joe Sinnott (inking Kirby); Milton Glaser;<br />
Ron Cobb; Richard Corben</small></center><br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Bob Fujitani<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Richard Corben<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="ffbf00">Nuff said, pilgrim.</font> <font COLOR="ffe300"><i>Excelsior!</i></font></b></center><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/12/best-music-2019-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2019</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-music-2018-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2018</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-music-2017-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2017</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-music-2015-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2015</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr><hr><br />Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-47525440414727297312020-12-30T18:51:00.000-08:002020-12-30T18:51:00.569-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR! with Happy New Years Songs Playlist<br />
<center>Quality is timeless.<br />
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Make a better future.</center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>:<br />
Rock'n'Soul Playlist,<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6e3tawHRYVrKThqLKcUyZM" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><center><small>This is a Spotify player. Join up for free <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/"target=_blank>here</a>.</small></center><br />
A history of NEW YEARS songs from the 1950s to today, in chronological order.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="00cc00">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf">Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="00cc00">Blues!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff9900">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="#ff6600">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="#ff9900">Country!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#cc66ff">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="#9933ff">Psychedelic!</font> <font COLOR="#cc66ff">Funk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ccff66">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="#ffff66">Reggae!</font> <font COLOR="#ccff66">Punk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff66cc">New Wave!</font> <font COLOR="#ff3399">HipHop!</font> <font COLOR="#ff66cc">Electro!</font></b><br />
and more!<br />
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-<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html"target=_blank>The Real History of Rock and Soul!: A Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-1652532022840096942020-01-20T12:38:00.011-08:002024-02-22T21:38:04.460-08:00BEST MOVIES & TV: 2019<br />
<center><font COLOR="ffffff"><b><i>The Great, The Good, and The Interesting!</i></b></font></center><br />
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<font size="4"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="#C3">BEST TV: 2019</a><br />
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<small>Note: This will often spotlight directors for special merit.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>SHADOW</b></i></font> (China) ⇧<br />
Director Zhang Yimou is famed for his epic compositions and rich colors (<i>Hero</i>, <i>House Of Flying Daggers</i>).<br />
Here, he counters this with a Wuxia palace thriller rendered in (almost) greyscale and expressionistic set pieces.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>PARASITE</b></i></font> (South Korea) ⇧<br />
Like two melded films burning at both ends, this layered social satire lights up the comedies and tragedies of the class war.<br />
Director Bong Joon-ho (<i>Mother</i>, <i>Snowpiercer</i>) crests on a supurb cast.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT</b></i></font>* (China) ⇧<br />
<font size="2">*(not the O'Neill play)</font><br />
Bi Gan impressed many with his debut film, <i>Kaili Blues</i> (2015).<br />
This follow-up is a startling leap forward, a labyrithine neo-noir that culminates in an eerie symbolist odyssey shot in one hour-long take.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>ASH IS PUREST WHITE</b></i></font> (China) ⇧<br />
The journey is the thing.<br />
Director Jia Zhangke unrolls a parable of a woman (artfully played by his partner, Zhao Tao) caught up in smalltown ganglife.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>TOLKIEN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
J.R.R. Tolkein turned Fantasy into literature with the <i>Lord Of The Rings</i> trilogy.<br />
This bracing and touching bio reveals how poverty, war, and love compelled him to make it. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE CURRENT WAR</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Civilization exists because of electricity.<br />
This constantly surprising overview of the bruising competition between Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla leads right into the birth of the modern world.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE IRISHMAN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Scorsese, Pacino, DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel.<br />
The <i>Godfather</i> gang bookend their storied careers with a stately epic.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ROCKETMAN</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Freeing itself from the biopic rut, this freeform musical captures the quintessential '70s Superstar during his popular zenith and personal lows with surprising candor and inspiration.<br />
The classic songs are impressively produced by Giles Martin.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>OPHELIA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
A feminist riposte to <i>Hamlet</i>, led by the ever-supple Daisy Ridley.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HER SMELL</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Two films: a handheld faux-doc' of a riot grrrl going mad with Rock excess, and a static stare at sobriety and grace. <br />
Elizabeth Moss strings both extremes.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>NINA WU</b></i></font> (Taiwan)<br />
This unfairly overlooked film is the <i>#metoo</i> expose of The East; based on her own experiences, Wu Ke-xi co-writes and stars as an actor desperate to make her last break into the movies, while haunted by hallucinatory visions of inner turmoils.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>PAIN AND GLORY</b></i></font> (Spain)<br />
Pedro Almodóvar's swan song.<br />
MVP Antonio Banderas is at his best as the avatar for the director's cathartic personal journey through past and present travails, guiding a fine cast through a layered and moving story.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>LUCY IN THE SKY</b></i></font><br />
A beautiful set-up that goes to an erratic place; based loosely on the true tale of a female astronaut struggling through the aftermath.<br />
This journey is valuable as a feminist rebuke to double-standards, and is undervalued because of them.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE LAUNDROMAT</b></i></font><br />
Want to know how the Rich launder all the money they fleece from you?<br />
In this brash experimental comedy, director Steven Soderbergh and an all-star cast expose the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers"target=_blank>Panama Papers</a>, with everyperson Meryl Streep on the trail of the gleefully decadent Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>KNIVES OUT</b></i></font><br />
Rian Johnson's dramedy mystery film, starring Daniel Craig and an all-star cast, is as clever a whodunit as it is a social satire of classism, users, and bullies. Watch it first for solving the enigma, and repeatedly for the craft.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>YESTERDAY</b></i></font><br />
What if you were the only one who knew The Beatles' songs?<br />
This thought experiment proves out as an engaging comedy with some nice character beats and, of course, the best music.<br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1963-esque.html"target=_blank>BEATLESQUE Songs: 1963-esque</a>, with Massive<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BOOKSMART</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Normally I can't do suburban angst or High School wanks. Nope.<br />
But this film constantly flays cliches with clever lines, jolting absurdity, and a cast chemistry that is undeniable.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY</b></i></font><br />
Emily Dickenson's poetry, radical in structure and deeply soulful, were gifts to the woman she loved. Previously hidden by historians, writer/director Madeleine Olnek corrects that biased omission in this playful and acute romp starring Maggie Shannon, Susan Ziegler, and Amy Seimetz.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STAN AND OLLIE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
A gently bittersweet stroll through Laurel and Hardy's final comedy tour that is as funny and touching as their classic films.<br />
Steve Coogan (Stan) and John C. Reilly (Ollie) are uncannily accurate.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>DOLEMITE IS MY NAME</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Comedian Rudy Ray Moore channeled the '70s black underground into albums and films through his rough-rapping character, Dolemite. <br />
Eddie Murphy is clearly on fire playing his idol, a cult figure who helped inspire indie street films and Rap. <br />
(Also, it struts on an excellent soundtrack.)<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Half great, half frustrating.<br />
Strongest as a confident, wry character study of two unique friends braving their dreams, weakest when it reduces the city's pluralism to forced generic absolutisms.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
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I love the Original Trilogy as much as anyone can.<br />
Yet, for me, the new films are the best.<br />
And RISE is the <i>Ultimate</i> STAR WARS film.<br />
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It not only splendidly crescendoes its current trilogy, but the entire triple trilogy, with a scope, depth, vision, and intensity that excels them all. Rey is truly The One, and this triumph is beautiful in every facet all the way to its last frame.<br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-empire-and-last-jedi-are-actually.html"target=_blank>Why EMPIRE and LAST JEDI are actually the Best of the STAR WARS films</a><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HIGH LIFE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
An astronaut, a child, an evolving mystery, and an event horizon.<br />
Claire Denis' nonlinear SF parable unwinds like a play, quietly building and contorting, with star assist from Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson, and André Benjamin.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ANIARA</b></i></font> (Sweden) ⇧<br />
A cityship bound for Mars goes astray, and its bereft society struggles to find its way.<br />
Based on Martinson's 1956 symbolist poem, this entrancing film interpretation recalls SF author James Tiptree Jr, with her blend of rumination, turnovers, and undertow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>AD ASTRA</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
The storylines of <i>2001</i> and <i>2010</i> transformed into the introspective journey of "<i>Heart Of Darkness</i>"/<i>Apocalypse Now</i>. <br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html"target=_blank>2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>FAST COLOR</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Told in plain terms amid wide plains, Julia Hart's naturalist 'superhero' story impresses through twists and teardrops. <br />
Gugu Mbatha-Raw heads a winning, understated cast.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE LONG WALK</b></i></font> (Laos)<br />
The weary man on the country road is accompanied by ghosts. But there is much more to it in a crafty film that blurs genres and upends expectations.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>GLASS</b></i></font><br />
The intersection of <i>Unbreakable</i> and <i>Split</i>, better in its build-up than its end-up.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE</b></i></font> <br />
An effective, if straightforward, adaptation of the emotional thriller.<br />
Always read the original works by Shirley Jackson, to savor her poetry and contemplation.<br />
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➤ <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html"target=_blank>THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE LIGHTHOUSE</b></i></font><br />
Robert Eggers follows <i>The Witch</i> (2015) with this harsh b/w chiller. <br />
The psychological duel between Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, trapped in a remote lighthouse together, is arresting.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>UNDER THE SILVER LAKE</b></i></font><br />
Essentially a canny Hitchcock homage used to frame a potpourri of LA weirdness.<br />
Well-shot and scored.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>VELVET BUZZSAW</b></i></font><br />
The previous effort <i>Nightcrawler</i> was solid, but this generally sharp LA art world satire insists on being a mediocre horror film instead.<br />
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I review and do original illustrations of<br />
all Comics-based films for the review site,<br />
<a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a>.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL</b></i></font><br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/alita-battle-angel-2019"target=_blank>Review</a> and original art<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>CAPTAIN MARVEL</b></i></font> <br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/captain-marvel-2019"target=_blank>Review</a> and original art<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>SHAZAM!</b></i></font><br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/shazam-2019"target=_blank>Review</a> and original art<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>AVENGERS: ENDGAME</b></i></font><br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/avengers-endgame-2019"target=_blank>Review</a> and original art<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>JOKER</b></i></font> <br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/joker-2019"target=_blank>Review</a> and original art<br />
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See Also:<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a>,<br />
THE Comic Movies Review Site!<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>TOY STORY 4</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Every <i>Toy Story</i> sequel is better and deeper, because Pixar waits for a great idea and takes their time with care.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>TEEN TITANS GO! vs TEEN TITANS</b></i></font> <br />
Goofball fun.<br />
I'm a sucker for any Multiversal team-up, always.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>I LOST MY BODY</b></i></font> (France)<br />
This pensive and surreal film is not for kids.<br />
A severed hand flexes through Paris to track down its host. Also, a touching romance!<br />
(It works.)<br />
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<font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>UNDONE</b></i></font> ⇧ 1<br />
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An indie dramedy, mystery thriller, and eye-popping headtrip all in one!<br />
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'<i>Undone</i>' is as bright and innovative as almost anything out there. Once the amazing second episode kicks in, no alert person could possibly turn away from this show's mysteries and delights. <br />
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The effusive Rosa Salazar (<i>Alita</i>) is riveting as the whirlwind freespirit Alma, teetering between tough self-assessment and radically altered perception of reality itself. Carefully tracing a hypnagogic spirit journey, realized through stunning rotoscope animation and painted backgrounds, the gripping story stays grounded through the rich performances of Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddharth Dhananjay, Daveed Diggs, and the elastic Bob Odenkirk ('<i>Better Call Saul</i>'). <br />
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Now that '<i>Legion</i>', '<i>Lodge 49</i>', and '<i>The Good Place</i>' have ended, sharp fans should support '<i>Undone</i>'. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>STAR WARS: RESISTANCE</b></i></font> 2 <br />
Essentially 'Archie Meets <i>Star Wars</i>', with all the YA fun that entails.<br />
Great cudos for the conversion of Ralph McQuarrie's signature art designs into anime style.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>DISENCHANTMENT</b></i></font> 2 <br />
A wonky first half, but a rousing finish.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MARVEL RISING</b></i></font><br />
A continuing series of specials, starring Ms Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Ghost-Spider, America Chavez, and Captain Marvel.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the young progressives overturned the repressive control of the House Of Representitives.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE GREAT HACK</b></i></font><br />
How Cambridge Analytica hacked your social media to install a fake President.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY</b></i></font><br />
How the populist leadership of Brazil was toppled to install the dictator Bolsonaro.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE INVENTOR: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley</b></i></font><br />
It's often said 'Bernie Madoff only went to prison because he ripped off rich people', and this doc' taking down another corporate swindler proves that true.<br />
Meanwhile, the wider rich have swindled the country, but that's just business as usual. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>The Two Killings Of SAM COOKE</b></i></font><br />
Sam Cooke was America's soul superstar but, after recording the protest anthem "<i>A Change Is Gonna Come</i>", he died under abrupt and contested circumstances.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>APOLLO 11</b></i></font><br />
On July 20, 1969, the human race became interstellar citizens with our landing on the moon.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>WHO BURNED THE BRONX?</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
1970s NYC was gutted and burned for the monied to 'develop'.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>MEMORY: The Origins of ALIEN</b></i></font><br />
The finest SciFi/Horror film of all time gets due remembrance.<br />
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<center><small>(The season number follows each title.)</small></center><br />
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Feed your mind and your activism will follow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>The Rachel Maddow Show</b></i></font> ⇧ <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58F><i><b>LAST WEEK with John Oliver</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>PBS NewsHour</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>PBS FRONTLINE</b></i></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>GENTLEMAN JACK</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
Anne Lister scandalized the 1830s with her androgynous sexuality and business acumen.<br />
Here, showrunner Sally A. Wainwright (<i>Last Tango in Halifax</i>, <i>Happy Valley</i>) brings her secret world -translated from coded journals- to vivid life, pinioned on the mesmerizing performance of Suranne Jones.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>JETT</b></i></font> 1 ⇧<br />
Like Catwoman meets "<i>Breaking Bad</i>".<br />
The great Carla Gugino finally gets the breakout role she deserves, completely riveting in Sebastian Gutierrez's sleek hardboiled thriller.<br />
Kinky, brutal, intricate, tender.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>MR. ROBOT</b></i></font> 4<br />
Sam Esmail's hacktivist-thriller comes to a heady, challenging finale.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>EL CAMINO: A Breaking Bad Movie</i></b></font> <br />
A nuanced postscript to "<i>Breaking Bad</i>" that succeeds on every level.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE DEUCE</b></i></font> 3 ⇧<br />
The 'show about Porn history' is actually an expose of the rise of our corporate rulers.<br />
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In the '70s and '80s, the rich destroyed destitute NYC neighborhoods; this war on the poor proved to be a gentrification scheme to seize land and power, which they used to take over the city, the state, and the nation.<br />
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The series finale, set in 1985, spells this out for all the late and the lazy to see. This is the origin of your current overthrow.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>POSE</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
The spiritual and sequential 'sequel' to "<i>The Deuce</i>", as viewed and endured by the LGBTQ underground in 1990.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>GAME OF THRONES</b></i></font> 8<br />
Television's grandest and most complex show, #1 around the world, comes to a poignant/polarizing finale.<br />
No matter where you fall on that, this series has been one of the most impressive and resonant achievements in TV history.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff"><center><h1>W O N D E R</h1></center></font><br />
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<b>Television is the new Cinema.</b><br />
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Through the 20th Century, Film had the lockhold on budgeted scope and artful substance, while television was considered cheap and lowbrow.<br />
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In the recent two decades, the tide is turning. With big-pocket cable companies, diverse content, widescreen stereo TVs, longform serials, and sophisticated audiences, televison can now rival or outpace cinema for production values and narrative depth.<br />
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Three examples of this are '<i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>', '<i>The Mandalorian</i>', and '<i>Lost In Space</i>'.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STAR TREK: DISCOVERY</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
'<i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>' is the Ultimate STAR TREK.<br />
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It symphonizes the idealic passion of the original series, the mad experimentation of the animated and the novels, the serial depth of the Berman-era shows, and the optimum cinerama of the films into an holistic blend of all its varied strengths. This season reinvented the origins of the original, and then, in one breathtaking final leap, boldly went where none of them have gone before. <br />
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Engage.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>THE MANDALORIAN</i></b></font><br />
The new STAR WARS films, tv show, animateds, and comics are the best ever made, lovingly crafted by fans-turned-pros who are enhancing everything we loved from before.<br />
Thank you, Jon Favreau, for the 'Boba Fett space western' that we always wanted.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>LOST IN SPACE</b></i></font> 2 ⇧ <br />
One of the best shows being made.<br />
As mysteriously epic as 2001, as heart-pounding as RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, as real as THE MARTIAN, as touching as any family dramady around, this ingenius serial constantly surprises and galvanizes at every turn. <br />
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If you've been absent, discover your loss.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>THE ORVILLE</b></i></font> 2<br />
While "<i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>" took over 50 episodes to find its feet, this sleeper did it within its first 12.<br />
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If the first season started as NextGen-Lite with fratboy jokes, it later sobered up into a real social issues drama with light asides. The second season warped with that momentum into a fine ReGeneration show that too many, including Trekkers, are missing out on. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE OA</b></i></font> 2 ⇧<br />
Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's fearless head-shred epic has more smarts than your kicked ass.<br />
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Brazenly deep, heedlessly serpentine, vehemently passionate. Other than "<i>Legion</i>", there is no other show so many light years ahead of the curve. The astounding 5th episode is better than entire seasons of other fine shows.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>COLONY</b></i></font> 4<br />
Everything rises up for the final showdown against the alien invasion... and then they cancelled the show.<br />
It's still worth the season's trip, even so.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>3%</b></i></font> 3 (Brazil)<br />
Quietly the best dystopian rebellion story around, led by the great Bianca Comparato and Vaneza Oliveira.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>OSMOSIS</b></i></font> 1 (France)<br />
Like '<i>Black Mirrror</i>', a well-considered critique of how tech can mine you far deeper than it ever should.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>HIS DARK MATERIALS</b></i></font> 1<br />
Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy books unleashed in all the depth that cinema couldn't have time for.<br />
Thoughtful casting and skillfull worldbuilding.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>GOOD OMENS</b></i></font> miniseries<br />
A whimsical adaption of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's staving-apocalypse book, scripted by Neil himself; a bit self-consciously muggy but at its stride when played straight.<br />
Michael Sheen and David Tennant are having such fun as angel and devil that their tide carries everything.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff"><center><h1>H O R R O R</h1></center></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE TWILIGHT ZONE</b></i></font> (2019) 1<br />
Rod Serling, an acclaimed playwright, disrupted '50s TV censorship using the guise of a Speculative Fiction show to satirize any oppression of spirit and mind. <br />
This third revival honors him with more diverse casting, sharp social commentary, and character plays.<br />
The third episode, "Replay", is an outstanding condemnation of racial profiling and killer cops that should be mandatory viewing right now.* <br />
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*<font size="2">(Albeit, the only one where the new cursing element is justified.)</font> <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>BLACK MIRROR</b></i></font> 5<br />
While that show honors tradition, its heir is breaking new ground.<br />
Alvin Toffler's theory of 'Futureshock' predicted we couldn't keep up with the ramifications of the tech we churn out.<br />
At 70 minutes each, Charlie Brooker's anthology vignettes set 'five minutes in the future' are as strong as movies, deep as plays, focused as short stories. This is a consistently excellent and profoundly thoughtful series, challenging us to review our evolving reality.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>STRANGER THINGS</b></i></font> 3<br />
A strong, well-thought season that pulls the entire ensemble together while advancing each character.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>THE TERROR</b></i></font> 2<br />
The first season of this anthology was such an engrossing tale of arctic survival that it didn't really need the horror element.<br />
The second, set in the awful Japanese Internment camps of WWII California, is also such an intense and vitally topical subject in itself.<br />
But the homeland eeriness that accompanies it works well within.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>AMERICAN GODS</b></i></font> 2<br />
Neil Gaiman's classic book should have been adapted in two seasons.<br />
But showrunner Bryan Fuller kept adding so much quality expansion to the first season that four seemed more likely.<br />
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With his dismissal, the show is now on autopilot, a canny simulation running in place simply to franchise out the book adaption longer than it should be.<br />
Tighten it up and finish.<br />
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<font size="2">Awake producers should take this opportunity to bring Bryan Fuller back to create his second phase of the cancelled "<i>Hannibal</i>" series.</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff"><center><h1>H E R O E S</h1></center></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>LEGION</i></b></font> 3 ⇧<br />
The most consistently innovative and fearless show on television wraps up.<br />
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Noah Hawley trysts dreams and delusions, daring us to stare into a strobe of idylls and eidolons. Like acid stepped on with morphine, "<i>Piper At The Gates Of Dawn</i>" mashed-up with "<i>Jar Of Flies</i>", or "<i>The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test</i>" celtic-knotted with "<i>Naked Lunch</i>". <br />
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Roll up for the mystery tour.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>SWAMP THING</i></b></font> 1 <br />
On the comics page, "Swamp Thing" was two revolutions: <br />
first the acclaimed monster fable by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson (1973), and then the postmodern deconstruction by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben (1985). All they got for it was bad movies, tv shows, and cartoons.<br />
Until now. Against all expectation, this solid effort tries earnestly to right most of those screen wrongs. <br />
Cancelled, but a sincere advance that was appreciated by long-time fans.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>DOOM PATROL</i></b></font> 1 <br />
Grant Morrison's brainwarping stories for Vertigo Comics get very well channeled here, particularly in its latter half.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>UMBRELLA ACADEMY</i></b></font> 3 <br />
Morrison's <i>Doom Patrol</i> stories inspired his heir, rocker Gerard Way, to write this comic. <br />
The show version is an adept rethink of the Doom Patrol and the X-Men, filtered through Moore and Gibbons' WATCHMEN.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS</i></b></font> crossover event<br />
Told in 5 parts across <i>Batwoman</i>, <i>Supergirl</i>, <i>The Flash</i>, <i>Arrow</i>, and <i>Legends Of Tomorrow</i>, this streamlined adaption of the ultimate Multiversal team-up maxiseries (1985) is great fun.<br />
Just as the comic laced all of DC's print history into one shared continuity, the genius of this version was to establish all DC movie and tv shows as one multiveral reality. Fun cameos, new twists, and a hearty effort.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>BATWOMAN</i></b></font> 1 <br />
There have been several live-action Superman TV series, but never really one for Batman. <br />
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The '<i>Batman</i>' '66 series was only a live cartoon parodying the material from ignorance. Recent surrogate shows like '<i>Birds Of Prey</i>', '<i>Gotham</i>', '<i>Arrow</i>', and '<i>Pennyworth</i>' are The Batman in absentia. So is this... except it works now; the point is to represent the modern Dark Knight concept accurately, and Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) personifies this completely when all the others couldn't.<br />
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The actual Batwoman stories by writer Greg Rucka and artist J.H. Williams III are true works of art, a visual tour de force and critical pinnacle that only a Noah Hawley ('<i>Legion</i>) could translate to screen. Streamlined instead into The CW's teen formulas, this TV show still retains enough basics of Kate's world to fly. '<i>Arrow</i>' remade Nolan's DARK KNIGHT films for 8 seasons, but this show quietly implies it is their legitimate sequel. And, aside from first-year wonkiness, it is.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>PENNYWORTH</i></b></font> 1 <br />
This is the antidote to everything that was wrong with the deplorable '<i>Gotham</i>'.<br />
Beyond all bizarrity and bogglement, they are by the same guy, Bruno Heller. <i>?!!</i><br />
Set in an Elseworlds mid-'60s London, this rough drama starring Bruce Wayne's eventual parents and the eponymous Alfred fuses the early '<i>Avengers</i>' spy series with the harshness of the Harry Palmer films.<br />
Crack dialogue, period precision, sharp photography and music. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>JESSICA JONES</i></b></font> 3<br />
The last of the Marvel Netflix shows bows out.<br />
Drastic reversals, intense struggles, hard lessons. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.</i></b></font> 6<br />
Knowing their endpoint is next year, they seem to be having fun on the way out.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>RAISING DION</i></b></font> 1 ⇧<br />
A sensitive show about an 8-year-old with superpowers is more mature than the CW's YA superhero shows.<br />
An excellent cast, smart stories, many laughs and twists.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>THE ROOK</i></b></font> 1<br />
Like "<i>The X-Men</i>" rewritten by John le Carré.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>CLOAK AND DAGGER</i></b></font> 2<br />
Twice as long as it should have been, but still pretty solid.<br />
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See Also:<br />
➤ <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a>, <br />
THE Comic Movies Review Site!<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff"><center><h1>D E T E C T I V E S</h1></center></font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>MINDHUNTER</i></b></font> 2 ⇧<br />
An even better second season, with the FBI's original Profiling division coming together, even as their private lives splinter apart.<br />
(The work of pioneer profiler John E. Douglas covered in this period was the direct inspiration for Thomas Harris' "<i>Red Dragon</i>" and "<i>The Silence Of The Lambs</i>").<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>TRUE DETECTIVE</i></b></font> 3 <br />
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This anthology series was doing two things that everybody missed:<br />
1) Homaging different eras/styles of detective stories each season.<br />
2) Outlining a secret occult power cabal behind it all.<br />
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With all the rabid overvaluing of Season 1 <small>(Southern Gothic)</small> and reflexive underappreciation of Season 2 <small>(Neo Noir)</small>, Season 3 <small>(Police Procedural)</small> was forced to retell the first one better to regain public faith, obscuring these goals.<br />
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For the anthology show to hold true, it should alternate radically each turn: such as, an 1890s Victorian, a 1930s hardboiled, a B/W '40s Film Noir, a contempo historical mystery to wrap up. Though detectives would investigate a local murder, only the viewers will piece the total puzzle together in the combined overview. So let's back off and let it happen.<br />
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That said, Mahershala Ali is sterling here. <br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>WHEN THEY SEE US</i></b></font> Miniseries<br />
Ava Duvernay (<i>Selma</i>) dissects the travesty that framed 'the Central Park 5' youths, based on bigotry and corruption.<br />
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<font COLOR=#FFFFFF>✭✭✭✭✭</font><br />
<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL</i></b></font> 3 ⇧ <br />
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What showrunner out there can shine the emerging flaws of her rich characters into profound facets, twine all the dynamic social tensions of 1960, and crack wise faster and better than Broadway in Midge's stand-up tours from Vegas to Miami to the Apollo, all with the clockwork intricacy and spectacular zing of a musical?<br />
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Amy Sherman-Palladino can. The rest should be taking notes to catch up.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>THE GOOD PLACE</i></b></font> 4<br />
The brainiest farce on network TV only increases with quality in its final run.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>BROAD CITY</i></b></font> 5<br />
The outrageous Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson bring their hijinks to a close.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>RUSSIAN DOLL</i></b></font> 1<br />
Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler co-created this livewire headtwister, in which Lyonne navigates the same day forever.<br />
Hilarious and essential.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><b><i>Pen15</i></b></font> 1<br />
Series creators/stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle are hilarious playing their 13-year-old selves in all their awkward glory, in a school full of real teenagers.<br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><b><i>LODGE 49</i></b></font> 2 ⇧<br />
Imagine a writers room of Thomas Pynchon, Nora Ephron, Elmore Leonard, Tina Fey, Carlos Castaneda, and Robert Altman, getting spliffed and riffing freely. <br />
The unicorn van, shark lawsuits, corporate weasels in Furry suits, headbutting into glass doors, blindfold revelations, the snow room, mariachis through hoops of fire, plane bailouts, The World Under The World.<br />
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AMC has cancelled this brilliant show, but treat yourself to the fine journey of both seasons.<br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/12/best-music-2019-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2019</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-music-2017-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2017</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-movies-tv-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-music-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2014</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-movies-tv-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-music-2013-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2013</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-comix-2012.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2012</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-comix-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2011</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-movies-and-tv-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-music-2000-2010-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-comix-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2000-2010</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr><hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-62312860321317996042020-01-10T13:06:00.026-08:002024-01-19T16:54:25.961-08:00BEST COMICS: 2019<br />
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<i>by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan</i><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>PAPER GIRLS</b></font>, <i>by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One of the smartest, twistiest comics ever made comes to a close with issue #30.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>LITTLE BIRD</b></font>, <i>by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
An hallucinatory 5-issue mini-series, like a post-apoc' dreamquest.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY</b></font>, <i>by Charles Soule and Scott Snyder (w), and Giuseppe Camuncoli and Daniele Orlandini (a)</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A superduo of writers brings us a complex story of our world ravaged by a pandemic, and the lost country that was the United States.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>FAIRLADY</b></font>, <i>by Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni, and Marissa Louise</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Fantasy meets cop procedural, underlined with social critique.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SKYWARD</b></font>, <i>by Joe Henderson and Lee Garbett</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Class wars, science intrigue, and zero gravity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ASCENDER</b></font>, <i>by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The sequel to DESCENDER navigates Sci-Fi and Fantasy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BITTER ROOT</b></font>, <i>by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The '20s Harlem Renaissance vs. arcane forces (and family quarrels).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>MONSTRESS</b></font>, <i>by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Best-selling author Marjorie Liu's Gothic Fantasy, with stunning art by Sana Takeda.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE</b></font>, <i>by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Life and death and lifestyles of the rich and infamous.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>VALKYRIE JANE FOSTER</b></font>, <i>by Jason Aaron and Al Ewing</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
She was Thor, and now she is more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE MAGNIFICENT MS. MARVEL</b></font>, <i>by Saladin Ahmed and Minkyu Jung</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A relaunch title of everyone's favorite, Kamala Khan, with a new creative team.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL</b></font>, <i>by Ryan North and Derek Charm</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Comics' most hilarious hero closes out a long run of chestnuts with issue #50.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE UNSTOPPABLE WASP</b></font>, <i>by Jeremy Whitley and Gurihiru</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The new Wasp and her genius squad arrive to shake up the science hive.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>MARVEL RISING</b></font>, <i>by Nilah Magruder and Roberto Di Salvo</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Ghost-Spider, America Chavez, and Captain Marvel. Nuff said.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SILVER SURFER BLACK</b></font>, <i>by Donny Cates and Tradd Moore</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
It's the trippy art, morphing somewhere between Steve Ditko and Oliver Hibert.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BLACK PANTHER</b></font>, <i>by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuna</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Bestselling author Coates continues to refine and redefine Wakanda's maonarch for the present day.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SHURI</b></font>, <i>by Nnedi Okorafor and Leonardo Romero</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Bestselling author Okorafor puts the Panther's sister on center stage.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>MARVELS: Annotated</b></font>, <i>by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
MARVELS rocked the industry in 1994, with its lushly painted deconstruction of the history of the Marvel universe, seen through the eyes of average people. This reissue reveals all the deep details within it.<br />
Ever marvelous.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="ff8000">S T A R<br />
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Marvel is doing a splendid job making movies between the movies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STAR WARS</b></font>, <i>by Kieron Gillen and Angel Unzueta; Greg Pak and Phil Noto</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
For 75 issues, this series did excellent arcs filling in the mysteries between A NEW HOPE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.<br />
<small>After this, a new relaunch of the title will explore between EMPIRE and RETURN OF THE JEDI.</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DARTH VADER: Dark Lord of the Sith</b></font>*, <i>by Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
A second series, set in Vader's formative years in the aftermath of REVENGE OF THE SITH, which culminated with issue #25.<br />
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*<small>(They don't include the subtitle on the cover, causing great confusion with the first 25-issue DARTH VADER series, which was set later.)</small><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>DARTH VADER: Dark Visions</b></font>, <i>by Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum and varied artists</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
A five-issue mini, an anthology examining how Vader is perceived by different people across the galaxy.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STAR WARS: Doctor Aphra</b></font>, <i>by Simon Spurrier and Caspar Wijngaard</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
One of STAR WARS comics' most inspired breakthrough characters wraps up her illustrious run with issue #40. <br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> <font size="5">=</font> <font COLOR="ffff00">Creators Rights</font></b>:<br />
Fight The Real Enemy</center><br />
DC Comics began when its mob-connected owners swindled two comics creators out of Superman.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Men-Tomorrow-Geeks-Gangsters-Birth/dp/0465036570"target=_Blank>></a><br />
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<b>Siegel and Shuster</b> only received proper credit and some compensation 35 years later when other brave creators like Neal Adams started championing creators rights and embarrassed the company through the press into giving it. In the '80s, as creator-owned indie comics ignited a mature comics renaissance, DC often paid lip service to now honoring creators rights. This was easier to say, now that their financial fortunes had just turned from near bankruptcy to critical darlings through the revolutionary works of one writer, <b>Alan Moore</b>. Living off his legacy ever since, they now repay him by consistently betraying him.<br />
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Let's be clear. DC has many great accomplishments in its tenure, all of which were achieved by smart creators and supportive editors. But, that creativity has often been overridden by the exploitative machinations of the larger corporations (the legal mafia) that have owned them.<br />
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Writer <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Alan Moore</b></font> and artist <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Dave Gibbons</b></font> were promised the permanent rights to <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font>, after a first printing; in 1986, the new 'graphic novels' of the time had one printing and were done. Instead, <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and MAUS established graphic novels as a new literature in the mainstream. Exploiting the irony of its lucrative success, DC has withheld copyright ever since through endless printings. And now they franchise the stolen property through phony prequels and sequels by others to convince the public that they own it.<br />
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By all accounts, the new <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> TV series <small>(Like DC, HBO is also owned by Warner Bros.)</small> is excellent. But I'm boycotting it and here's why.<br />
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It doesn't matter about the quality of a swipe, because it's still a swipe. The only purpose for the "<i>Before WATCHMEN</i>" and "<i>Doomsday Clock</i>" comics and the TV series sequel is to deny copyright to the original creators. To support any of them is to support the criminal. Any denial of this is just a flimsy rationalization for Gimmes to consume without conscience.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Alan Moore</b></font> and <font COLOR="ffff00"><b>Dave Gibbons</b></font> created <font COLOR="ffffff">WATCHMEN</font> and it's theirs alone. They innovated everything that helps you enjoy all the titles on this Best Comics post. Be Woke by actually being aware. Stand up for real justice and support creators rights.<br />
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Forget the corporation, support the creators.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>GODDESS MODE</b></font>, <i>by Zoe Quinn and Robbi Rodriguez</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Femme underground vs. the god machine.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BLACK HAMMER: Age Of Doom</b></font>, <i>by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and Dave Steward</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The 12-issue maxi ends; Lemire's BH titles are a parallel to such alt-Comics-history classics as KINGDOM COME, ASTRO CITY, and PLANETARY.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BLACK HAMMER ’45</b></font>, <i>by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A 4-issue mini; like the Tuskegee Airmen retold as the Blackhawks.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: HOTEL OBLIVION</b></font>, <i>by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
After a long break (and the breakout success of the Netflix show), the creators return for a sequel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>AMERICAN GODS: The Moment of the Storm</b></font>, <i>by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and Scott Hampton</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The third and concluding arc in their adaptation of Gaiman's book, a separate version than the TV series adaption.<br />
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In a just universe, Karen Berger would be the one running DC Comics instead of the Corps and the Ballcaps. She helmed the original/actual Vertigo Comics, the standard which all current Indie companies are imitating, and now she has her own imprint of creator-owned titles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>INVISIBLE KINGDOM</b></font>, <i>by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Put together Wilson (the creator of the new Ms. Marvel) and Ward (psychedelic artist of THE ODY-C), and you get a female <i>Dune</i> unlike anything you've seen.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SHE COULD FLY: The Lost Pilot</b></font>, <i>by Christopher Cantwell, Martin Morazzo, and Miroslav Mrva</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Written by the showrunner of the <i>Halt And Catch Fire</i> TV show, a mini-series sequel opening up mysteries within and without.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>EVERYTHING</b></font>, <i>by Christopher Cantwell and I. N. J. Culbard</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The mega-mall promises consumer paradise, so why is everything going wrong outside?<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>RUBY FALLS</b></font>, <i>by Ann Nocenti and Flavia Biondi</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A generational murder mystery.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STAR TREK: The Q Conflict</b></font>, <i>by Scott Tipton, David Tipton, and David Messina</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A mini-series team-up of multiple series -<i>Star Trek</i>, <i>The Next Generation</i>, <i>Deep Space Nine</i>, and <i>Voyager</i>- against the omnipotent being, Q.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>FIREFLY: The Unification War</b></font>, <i>by Greg Pak and Dan McDaid</i> _______ ⇧<br />
8 issues (or two trades) telling the secret civil war history that led to the TV series.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>FIREFLY: Bad Company</b></font>, <i>by Josh Lee Gordon and Francesco Mortarino</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
A one-shot spotlighting the life story of the rapscallion, Saffron (played on the series by Christina Hendricks).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>FIREFLY: Sting</b></font>, <i>by Delilah S Dawson, with Pius Bak, Serg Acuna, Richard Ortiz, Hyeonjin Kim, and Rodrigo Lorenzo</i> _______ ⇧<br />
An original Graphic Novel, showing Saffron's heist caper from the POV of all the Firefly women involved.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>STRANGE SKIES OVER EAST BERLIN</b></font>, <i>by Jeff Loveness and Lisandro Estherren</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A Cold War espionage thriller meets sci-fi horror.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BLADE RUNNER 2019</b></font>, <i>by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, and Andres Guinaldo</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The first canon comic sequel, by Michael Green (the co-writer of the film sequel BLADE RUNNER 2049), opens up new vistas in the raining city.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>SERA AND THE ROYAL STARS</b></font>, <i>by Jon Tsuei and Audrey Mok</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A Fantasy of a monarch trying to stave off civil war while seeking divine deliverance.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>LIVEWIRE</b></font>, <i>by Vita Ayala, Raul Allen, and Patricia Martin</i> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Going from superhero to wanted felon over a noble choice, Livewire circuits a world of pain. <br />
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<center><b><i><font COLOR="ffbf00">"Hey, Kids!</font> <font COLOR="ffe300">Comics!"</font></i></b></center><br />
From the '30s to the '80s, comics unified all of the kids in the world.<br />
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Comics spinner racks were omnipresent in every grocery, newsstand, and drugstore, a world of dreams in color for small change. But after 50 years, this changed. <br />
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As the fans grew older, comics grew more mature (and gradually more expensive). In the early '80s, comics disappeared from common spaces to be sold only in individual comic stores. This was the best and worst thing that could have happened: the select stores became a lab for the medium to grow up with adult fans, but this Comics Renaissance left all the kids behind with no entry point. Now that three decades have passed, the young have moved on to games and streaming, seeing superheroes nowadays only in films that are meant for those longtime adult readers.<br />
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Roy Thomas once said, "The Golden Age of Comics is <b>8</b>." <br />
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Comics should still be a fun spark for kids. Now, with the spectacular success of Raina Telgemeier's books, various publishers are finally figuring this out. A wide movement to provide more all-ages comics has risen. From single comics to trade paperbacks, there are many new entry points for young readers to join in and open up their imaginations. <br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffe300">C O M I C S</font></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>POWERS IN ACTION</b></font>, <i>by Art Baltazar</i> (Action Lab) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The always delightful Baltazar brings another loving spoof of all things hero in this 4-issue mini.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STEVEN UNIVERSE</b></font>, <i>by Taylor Robin and S.M. Mara </i> (Boom) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The acclaimed show has finished, but the adventures continue on the page.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>ADVENTURE TIME, Season 11</b></font>, <i>by Sonny Liew and Marina Julia</i> (Boom) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Season 10 was the last onscreen, but keep the merriment rolling with this print sequel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>SABRINA, The Teenage Witch</b></font>, <i>by Kelly Thompson and Veronica Fish</i> (Archie) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Known for her TV shows, Sabrina is just as bewitching in her latest comic series by noted writer Kelly Thompson.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>MARVEL ACTION: SPIDER-MAN</b></font>, <i>by Delilah S Dawson and Fico Ossio</i> (Marvel/IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Young teen versions of Peter, Miles, and Gwen goof around.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>STAR WARS ADVENTURES</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
All-ages adventures of the film and TV animated characters in new stories.<br />
Rey!<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>CASPER</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (American Mythology) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The timeless '50s-'70s stories reprinted.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>UNDERGOG</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (American Mythology) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
New and classic stories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>BULLWINKLE AND ROCKY</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (American Mythology) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The classic '70s comics reprinted.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>PEANUTS: LUCY SPEAKS OUT!</b></font>, <i>by Charles Schultz</i> (Amp) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Reprints of the <i>Peanuts</i> comic strip in serial form.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>SPACE BOY</b></font> #1-6, <i>by Stephen McCranie</i> (Dark Horse) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
An ongoing series of books, following a young teen adapting to moving around our solar system and the friends she makes.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>BEN 10</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (Boom) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The TV series hero in original tales.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>SUPER SONS</b></font>, <i>by Peter J. Tomasi, Carlo Barberi, and Art Thibert</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The adventures of Damian Wayne (Robin) and Jon Kent (Superboy), a 12-issue maxi compiled into two trade paperbacks.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>DC SUPERHERO GIRLS At Metropolis High</b></font>, <i>by Amy Wolfram and Yancy Labat</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
An original Graphic Novel starring young teen versions of Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Bumblebee, and Zatanna.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>TOY STORY ADVENTURES</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (Disney) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Short stories spread across the span of the films.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED</b></font>, <i>by various creators</i> (Jack Lake Productions) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
From the '40s to the '70s, <i>Classics Illustrated</i> adapted the classic books into comics form, becoming classics themselves.<br />
Recently each issue has been reprinted as a single-volume trade paperback.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>GUTS</b></font>, <i>by Raina Telgemeier</i> (Scholastic/Graphix) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Raina Telgemeier is the JK Rowling of comics, bringing more young readers in with her wildly popular and fun confessional books than anyone in the industry.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>CLEOPATRA IN SPACE</b></font> #1-5, <i>by Mike Maihack</i> (Scholastic) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Annual books of the Egyptian teen queen having fun in the far future.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="ffcc99"><b>SANITY AND TALLULAH</b></font> #1-2, <i>by Molly Brooks</i> (Disney/Hyperion) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Two young girls, a feisty cat, a space station. What could go wrong?<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="e67300"><b>HILDA And...</b></font> #1-7, <i>by Luke Pearson</i> (Flying Eye Books) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Refreshing kid adventures with a contemporary Fantasy bent, now made world-famous by the Netflix cartoon series.<br />
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Resources:<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.kidscomics.com"target=_blank>Kidscomics.com</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/"target=_blank>School Library Journal: Good Comics For Kids</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/12/20/21029548/best-comics-for-kids-graphic-novels"target=_blank>50 Best Comics + Graphic Novels For Kids</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com"target=_blank>The Big Blog Of Kids' Comics!</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://www.europecomics.com/comics-for-children/"target=_blank>European Comics For Children</a><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">•</font> <a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens"target=_blank>13 Great Webcomics For Kids and Teens</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN:<br />
Vol. 4, The Tempest</b></font>, <i>by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill</i> (Top Shelf) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The finale to the LOEG books, and to the careers of its esteemed creators.<br />
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What if all literature was a true, inter-related reality? The <i>Extraordinary Gentlemen</i> books are actually the complex history of one extraordinary woman, threading the entire <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html"target=_blank>Canon</a> of speculative fictions together.<br />
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Deep as Oxford, eclectic as the Smithsonian, fun as Comic-Con.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>NOVEMBER</b></font> Vol. 1, <i>by Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier</i> (Dark Horse) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Beginning a trilogy: three women, a crooked city, and intricate enigmas.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE MIDWINTER WITCH</b></font>, <i>by Molly Knox Ostertag</i> (Scholastic) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
The finale of the Fantasy trilogy, by hailed creator Ostertag (<i>Strong Female Protagonist</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>CLYDE FANS</b></font>, <i>by Seth</i> (Drawn and Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A long form meditation how all things must pass, focusing on a fans factory, a series made across twenty years and collected together for the first time.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>GIRL ON FILM</b></font>, <i>by Cecil Castellucci; Art by Vicky Leta, Jon Berg, V. Gagnon, and Melissa Duffy</i> (Boom) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
A wild memoir by Castellucci (<i>Shade The Changing Girl</i>).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>GENDER QUEER: A Memoir </b></font>, <i>by Maia Kobabe</i> (Lion Forge) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Only you can define who you are.<br />
(Tip: It's a work in progress the whole way.)<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE RIVER AT NIGHT</b></font>, <i>by Kevin Huizenga</i> (Drawn And Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Insomnia gives you plenty of time to think think think...<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME</b></font>, <i>by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero O Connell</i> (First Second Books) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
Love is revelation, destroyer, and catalyst. A nuanced teen opera.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SKIP</b></font>, <i>by Molly Mendoza</i> (Nobrow Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two new friends explore cosmic landscapes and their psyches. Beautifully painted surrealism.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>CATS OF THE LOUVRE</b></font>, <i>by Taiyo Matsumoto</i> (NBM) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The secret world of night cats in the art palace.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>IRON<br />
Or, The War After</b></font>, <i>by Shane-Michael Vidaurri</i> (Archaia Studios Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Like <i>Animal Farm</i> meets <i>1984</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>JAMES BROWN:<br />
Black And Proud</b></font>, <i>by Xavier Fauthoux</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
"Say it loud!".<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>REMBRANDT</b></font>, <i>by Typex</i> (SelfMadeHero) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
SelfMadeHero is publishing great biographies of famous artists told in their visual styles; previous volumes highlighted Van Gogh, Picasso, Munch, Dali, and Magritte.<br />
> <a href="https://selfmadehero.com"target=_blank>SelfMadeHero.com</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>PHILIP K. DICK</b></font>, <i>by Laurent Queyssi and Mauro Marchesi</i> (NBM) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
Speculative Fiction's most eccentric and original thinker is finally getting his due, with film and tv adaptions, documentaries, and bios like this.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BASQUIAT</b></font>, <i>by Paolo Paris</i> (SelfMadeHero) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The downtown renaissance man who mapped the future from the primordial past.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BLANK CANVAS:<br />
My So-Called Artist's Journey</b></font>, Vol. 1-5, <i>by Akiko Higashimura</i> (Seven Seas) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The autobiography of the famed Manga artist and her struggles.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>I KNOW WHAT I AM:<br />
The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi</b></font>, <i>by Gina Siciliano</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi"target=_blank>Artemisia</a> was a 16th Century painter abused and neglected at every turn, but her brilliant work has become undeniable.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>AMAZONS, ABOLITIONISTS, AND ACTIVISTS:<br />
A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights</b></font>, <i>by Mikki Kendall</i> (Ten Speed Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
"What do we want? Freedom!<br />
When do we want it? Now!".<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THIS WOMAN'S WORK</b></font>, <i>by Julie Delporte</i> (Drawn & Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Autobiography as feminist deconstruction of identity.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE HARD TOMORROW</b></font>, <i>by Eleanor Davis</i> (Drawn & Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Love and the intersection of anxiety and responsibility.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS:<br />
A Graphic Narrative</b></font>, <i>by David Walker, Damon Smyth, and Marissa Louise</i> (Ten Speed Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Douglass was the Gandhi and King of the 19th Century, who rose up from illiterate slave to revolutionary scholar.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>I, RENE TARDI, PRISONER OF WAR IN STALAG IIB:<br />
Vol. 2, My Return Home</b></font>, <i>by Rene Tardi</i> (Drawn And Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The aftermath of the French cartoonist's internment in a German WWII prison camp.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THEY CALLED US ENEMY</b></font>, <i>by George Takei, with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker</i> (Top Shelf) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
George Takei is famous for forging the future on <i>Star Trek</i>.<br />
But as a child he was interned in a California prison camp, despite being a citizen. This timely autobiography reminds us that bigotry must be fought at all times in all places.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>GRASS</b></font>, <i>by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim</i> (Drawn & Quarterly) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A memoir of Korean girls exploited as sexual slaves in Japanese internment camps.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE BLUE ROAD:<br />
A Fable of Migration</b></font>, <i>by Wayde Compton (w) and April dela Noche Milne (a)</i> (Arsenal Pulp Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A symbolic parable about the value of immigrants, across land and soul.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Sons of EL TOPO:<br />
Vol. 2, Abel</b></font>, <i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky and José Ladrönn</i> (Dark Horse) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Jodorowsky made his startling debut with the symbolist western film EL TOPO (1970).<br />
After years of developing a sequel, he is releasing it in graphix form, with Ladrönn's stunning art depicting the best unmade film around.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DIOSAMANTE</b></font>, <i>by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean-Claude Gal</i> (Humanoids) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Having worked with Moebius, Jodorowsky has created many Metal Hurlant-style alternate histories.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>EC ARCHIVES:</font><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf">Weird Fantasy, Vol. 4</font><br />
<font COLOR="00cc00">Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 4</font><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf">Crime SuspenStories, Vol. 4</font><br />
<font COLOR="00cc00">Frontline Combat</font><br />
<font COLOR="00ffbf">Modern Love</font><br />
<font COLOR="00cc00">Piracy</b></font>, <i>by Multiple Creators</i> (Dark Horse) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
EC Comics invented comics for adults in the early '50s, and were crucified for it.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235"target=_blank>></a><br />
Catch up to the original revolution.<br />
Stories by Gaines, Feldstein, Frazetta, Wood, Kamen, Orlando, Williamson, and more.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Druillet's THE NIGHT</b></font> (1976), <i>by Philippe Druillet</i> (Titan) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Out of unbearable personal tragedy, Druillet crafted this stark catharsis tale.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Druillet's SALAMMBO, Vol.1</b></font> (1980-'81), <i>by Philippe Druillet</i> (Titan) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Druillet adapted a trilogy out of Flaubert's controversial historical war saga.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="000cc00"><b>ANGEL CLAWS</b></font> (1994), <i>by Jodorowsky and Moebius</i> (Humanoids Publishing) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Two iconoclasts push sensual surrealism beyond all boundaries.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>40 DAYS- Dans Le Désert B</b></font> (1999), <i>by Moebius</i> (Book Palace) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A sketchbook compilation. Look and learn.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>LE FAUNE DE MARS- Martian Wildlife</b></font> (2011), <i>by Moebius</i> (Book Palace) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Another sketchbook collection, as usual a basic master class.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>WONDER WOMAN:<br />
The Golden Age, Vol. 3</b></font> (1944), <i>by Charles Moulton and H.G. Peter</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Moulton's forward feminism and Peter's art-nouveau cartooning are only now getting the appreciation they're due.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ADAM STRANGE:<br />
The Silver Age, Vol. 1</b></font> (1958-'64), <i>by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, and Carmine Infantino +</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
DC's Flash Gordon surrogate was a canny series which brought SciFi into the Silver Age, with stellar writers and artists.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BATMAN<br />
By Neal Adams, Book 2</b></font> (1969-'70), <i>by Dennis O'Neil, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Neal Adams +</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
The modern Batman exists because of Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams.<br />
They ushered in the Age Of Relevancy, when mainstream comics grew up. Dig the revolution.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>SHAZAM!<br />
The World's Mightiest Mortal, Vol. 1</b></font> (1973-'75), <i>by Dennis O'Neil, C.C. Beck, and Bob Oksner</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Captain Marvel was the biggest selling superhero on Earth in the '40s, until jealous DC sued him out of existence.<br />
In 1973, they began to atone for this by bringing him back for a new generation, and this bouyant tome collects the first 18 fun issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Absolute SWAMP THING<br />
by Alan Moore, Vol. 1</b></font> (1983-'85), <i>by Alan Moore, Stephen R, Bissette, and John Totleben, +</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Alan Moore seeded the Comics Renaissance in Britain with <i>MarvelMan</i> (1982).<br />
But it wildflowered to the world with his US work on <i>Swamp Thing</i>. <br />
This is a remastered omnibus of the beginning, with new <small>(dull airbrush)</small> coloring.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS,<br />
35th Anniversary</b></font> (1985-'86), <i>by Marv Wolfman and George Perez</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
DC invented the Multiverse.<br />
After thirty years of complex continuity, they streamlined it all with this epic-to-end-all-epics.<br />
Still the best.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>THE KILLING JOKE</b></font> (1988), <i>by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The core inspiration for both THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) and JOKER (2019).<br />
Read the real thing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>KINGDOM COME</b></font> (1996), <i>by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman took superheroes to an unmatchable pinnacle with <i>Miracleman</i> (1987-'90).<br />
But it spawned worthy scion like this beautifully painted contemplation about lost hope and luminous futures.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>VAMPS:<br />
The Complete Collection</b></font> (1996), <i>by Elaine Lee and William Simpson</i> (Vertigo) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Elaine Lee (<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-bang-of-starstruck-roots-and_08.html"target=_blank>Starstruck</a>) and Will Simpson (Game Of Thrones artist) bring you female vampire bikers; all three mini-series collected in one volume at last.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>STARDUST</b></font> (1996), <i>by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess</i> (Vertigo) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
The original illustrated story, before the novel or the film.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>MASTER OF KUNG FU:<br />
Fight Without Pity</b></font> (1975-'77), <i>by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩ <br />
This comic series is the lost treasure of the '70s, finally seeing print again after rights issues.<br />
Moench wrote three crucial runs across the decade, each with a singular artist. This collects the first with Gulacy, a stylist blending the best of Bruce Lee and <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/09/rock-sex-jim-steranko-agent-of-style.html"target=-blank>Steranko</a>.<br />
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The Demon Bear Saga</b></font> (1984-'85), <i>by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩ <br />
After his stunning run on <i>Moon Knight</i>, Sienkiewicz unleashed all inhibitions with his work here: like Neal Adams knife-fighting with Ralph Steadman. <br />
This specifically inspired the radical TV series <i>Legion</i> and the NEW MUTANTS film (2021).<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>THE PRISONER:<br />
Shattered Visage</b></font> (1988), <i>by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith</i> (Titan) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
This authorized sequel to <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/11/the-prisoner-its-influence-on-music-tv.html"target=_blank>The Prisoner</a> show returns to print, as strong an extension as any made.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>PROMETHEA,<br />
20th Anniversary Vol. 1</b></font> (1999), <i>by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III</i> (America's Best Comics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Like Wonder Woman with all the brakes off.<br />
Moore and Williams' magnum opus is a cosmic cathedral of infinite riches.<br />
A work of fine art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>PETER CANNON THUNDERBOLT</b></font>, <i>by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard</i> (Dynamite) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
WATCHMEN influenced everything, but was matched by none. <br />
Here's one of the few heirs that do well by it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>NANCY:<br />
A Comic Collection</font> <font COLOR="ffff00"></b></font>, <i>by Olivia Jaimes</i> (Amp Comics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The terrific webcomic reboot gets a print book.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>HEY KIDS! COMICS!</b></font>, <i>by Howard Chaykin</i> (Image) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
Howard Chaykin's loving (while unvarnished) homage to the history of the comics industry.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>ALIEN 3</b></font>, <i>by William Gibson</i> (Dark Horse) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
In 1987, the suits squandered a chance for ALIEN 3 and 4, written by Cyberpunk author William Gibson and to be directed by returning original Ridley Scott.<br />
Let that sink in.<br />
This compiled mini-series adapts the unused script for ALIEN 3 to comics.<br />
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Explore the past to map the future.<br />
Get with, get going.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>American Comic Book Chronicles:<br />
1940-1944</b></font>, <i>by Kurt F. Mitchell</i> (TwoMorrows) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The deep story of the Golden Age of Comics.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>EC COMICS:<br />
Race, Shock, and Social Protest</b></font>, <i>by Qiana Whitted</i> (Rutgers University Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇩<br />
As time passes, EC Comics only gains more social stature, even as all its assassins have dissolved to dust.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BRAIN BATS OF VENUS:<br />
The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton, Vol. 2 (1942-1952)</b></font>, <i>by Greg Sadowski</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Wolverton was the punk rock of extreme cartooning, so severe he could hardly have a career. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Forgotten All-Star:<br />
A Biography of GARDNER FOX</b></font>, <i>by Jennifer DeRoss</i> (Pulp Hero Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Pivotal writer Gardner Fox created the JSA, and then the JLA, and the Multiverse between them.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>MAC RABOY:<br />
Master of the Comics</b></font>, <i>by Roger Hill </i> (TwoMorrows) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
In contrast to the clean-line cartooning of C.C. Beck's Captain Marvel, Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr was like a streamlined Hal Foster, naturalistic and elegant.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Timely's Greatest:<br />
The Golden Age Of SIMON AND KIRBY</b></font> (1940-'42), <i>by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
The original power duo, who co-created Captain America, dynamic panels, hyperbolic storytelling, kid squads, love comics, and double-page spreads.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>EC COMICS LIBRARY:<br />
Atom Bomb and Other Stories</b></font>, <i>by Harvey Kurtzman and Wallace Wood</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
The message stories of EC's golden boys.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>EC COMICS LIBRARY:<br />
The Woman Who Loved Life And Other Stories</b></font>, <i>by Johnny Craig</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Johnny Craig is infamous for his blunt, scandalous work for <i>Vault Of Horror</i> and <i>Crime SuspenStories</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ROY G. KRENKEL:<br />
Father of Heroic Fantasy</b></font>, <i>by Andrewsteven Damsits and Barry Klugerman</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A consummate illustrator, whose influence on succeeding artists is immeasurable.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Telling Stories:<br />
The Classic Comic Art Of FRANK FRAZETTA</b></font>, <i>Edited by Edward Mason</i> (Bud's Art Books) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
A reissue of the 2008 book, collecting Frazetta's less-known early comics work.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Marvel Masters of Suspense:<br />
STAN LEE AND STEVE DITKO</b></font> (1960s), <i>by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
There were two dynamic duos at Marvel and Stan was in both. Ditko's best art period.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>KIRBY IS FANTASTIC</b></font> (The 1960s), <i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
An overview of the cutting edge <i>Fantastic Four</i> comic, for which Lee and Kirby did the first 101 issues.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>KIRBY IS MIGHTY</b></font> (The 1960s), <i>by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
It was in <i>The Mighty Thor</i> where Kirby went galactic and epic, with double-spreads that blueprinted everything in the THOR films.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>DC Universe:<br />
The Bronze Age Omnibus of JACK KIRBY</b></font> (The 1970s-'80s), <i>by Jack Kirby</i> (DC) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
From '70 to '75, Kirby jumped ship to the Distinguished Competion, hitting his pinnacle with the <i>New Gods</i> titles and <i>Kamandi</i>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>KIRBY RETURNS</b></font> (1976-'78), <i>by Jack Kirby</i> (Marvel) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
An omnibus of Kirby's return to Marvel Comics; his continually influencial work then on <i>Captain America</i>, <i>Black Panther</i>, <i>The Eternals</i>, <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html"target=_blank>2001</a>, <i>Machine Man</i>, and <i>Devil Dinosaur</i> is still being mined in comics and onscreen today.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Complete CREPAX,<br />
Vol. 4: Private Life</b></font> (1960s), <i>by Guido Crepax</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Mod pageantry, Hitchcock panels, and erotic decadence.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>JAMES WARREN, Empire Of Monsters:<br />
The Man Behind <i>Creepy</i>, <i>Vampirella</i>, And <i>Famous Monsters</i></b></font>, <i>by Bill Schelly</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
Warren magazines like <i>Creepy</i>, <i>Eerie</i>, and <i>Vampirella</i> were the adult comics of the '60s and '70s.<br />
And <i>The Spirit</i> reprints rediscovered and helped canonize Will Eisner. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>BERNIE WRIGHTSON Artifact Edition</b></font>, <i>by Bernie Wrightson</i> (IDW) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
EC produced future children like Jeff Jones, Michael Kaluta, and Berni Wrightson, whose fine illustration work on <i>Swamp Thing</i> is essential.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Collected TOPPI,<br />
Vol. 2: North America</b></font>, <i>by Sergio Toppi</i> (Lion Forge) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Every page by Toppi is a master class in illustration, in the use of line, contrast, design, and negative space.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Book Of WEIRDO:<br />
A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology</b></font> (1994), <i>by Jon B. Cooke</i> (Last Gasp) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Crumb's cheeky response to the arty RAW magazine was the hinge from underground comix to today's indie comics and graphic novels.<br />
Culprits who slung ink there included Peter Bagge, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Kim Deitch, Julie Doucet, Drew Friedman, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Hernandez, Carol Lay, Harvey Pekar, Joe Sacco, Dori Seda, Art Spiegelman, and Robert Williams.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>FREE S#!T</b></font>, <i>by Charles Burns</i> (Fantagraphics) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
Drawings that Burns gave away free to friends now grace a coffee table book.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ALTER EGO</b></font> (TwoMorrows) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
The original '60s comics fanzine that pioneered all of modern fandom, with deep stories on the Golden and Silver Age creators, is an ongoing mag still edited by Roy Thomas.<br />
> <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98"target=_blank>Alter Ego</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>BACK ISSUE!</b></font> (TwoMorrows) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> <br />
Dedicated to the '70s and '80s renaissance.<br />
> <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98"target=_blank>Back Issue</a><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>ILLUSTRATION</b></font> (The Illustrated Press) <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧ <br />
The best illustrators celebrated by the smartest illustration mag.<br />
> <a href="http://www.illustration-magazine.com"target=_blank>Illustration</a><br />
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I write and illustrate reviews of all comics-sourced films at the <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a> site.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>CAPTAIN MARVEL</b></i></font><br />
That's her boot upside your ass.<br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/captain-marvel-2019"target=_blank>review</a> and original art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>AVENGERS: Endgame</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
10 years of quality superhero films coming to stunning fruition, and hinging into the new future.<br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/avengers-endgame-2019"target=_blank>review</a> and original art.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#AC58FA><i><b>SPIDER-MAN: Far From Home</b></i></font><br />
Pushing the envelope into origami.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR=#c183fb><i><b>JOKER</b></i></font> ⇧<br />
Art film and character study, in New Hollywood style.<br />
My <a href="https://www.fourcolorfilms.com/movies/joker-2019"target=_blank>review</a> and original art.<br />
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See Also:<br />
<font COLOR=#ffffff>></font> <a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>Four Color Films</a>,<br />
THE Comic Movies Review Site!<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="c183fb"><b>LEGION</b></font>, season 3<br />
The highest level of fine art craft on Television.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <font COLOR="AC58FA"><b>JESSICA JONES</b></font>, season 3<br />
Jessica bows out, as snarky and haunted as ever. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <font COLOR="c183fb"><b>RAISING DION</b></font>, season 1<br />
A smart, funny, and moving series about an 8-year-old superhero and his amazing mom.<br />
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See also: <br />
> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2020/01/best-movies-tv-2019.html"target=_blank>BEST MOVIES And TV: 2019</a><br />
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<font COLOR="ffbf00">W E B C O M I C S :</font></b></h1></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/nancy"target=_blank>NANCY</a>, by Olympia Jaimes <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
Under a pseudonym, someone is upgrading the classic strip's mindtricks for the digital age.<br />
"Sluggo is lit" and you should get literate, too.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffbf00">•</font></font> <a href="https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive"target=_blank>PRINCE VALIANT</a>, by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font> ⇧<br />
Schultz (Xenozoic Tales) and Yeates (Timespirits) are doing excellent work continuing Hal Foster's masterwork into the 21st century.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffe300">•</font></font> <a href="https://thenib.com"target=_blank>The Nib</a> <font COLOR="00ccff">_______</font><br />
RESIST!<br />
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<center><h2><b><font COLOR="ffe300">R E S T</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffbf00">I N</font><br />
<font COLOR="ffe300">P O W E R</font></b></h2></center><br />
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From you, we exist.<br />
Because of you, we persist.<br />
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<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Everett Raymond Kinstler<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/01/beyond-cool-pedro-bell-funkadelics.html"target=_blank>Pedro Bell</a> ⇧<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Gahan Wilson<br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> Howard Cruse<br />
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art by Frank Kelly Freas.</small></center><br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">•</font> MAD Magazine ⇧<br />
After the dumbass politicians killed EC Comics<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235"target=_blank>></a>, MAD Magazine rose like a phoenix blowing a smartass raspberry at all culture.<br />
Its satiric mayhem directly inspired Lenny Bruce, underground comix, National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, In Living Color, MAD TV, The Daily Show, and all snarky teens ever since.<br />
Now the usual gang of idiots -the dumbass digital era- has ended it.<br />
Stay irate, stay crazed, stay MAD.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="ffbf00">Nuff said, pilgrim.</font> <font COLOR="ffe300"><i>Excelsior!</i></font></b></center><br />
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© <a href="http://www.tymstevens.com"target=_blank>Tym Stevens</a><br />
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See also:<br />
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-<a href="http://www.fourcolorfilms.com"target=_blank>FourColorFilms</a>: <b>THE</b> Comics Film Review Site!<br />
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<font color="#00ccff">·</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2024/01/best-movies-tv-2023.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2023</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/12/best-music-2023-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2023</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/12/best-comics-2023.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2023</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/01/best-movies-tv-2022_15.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2022</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2023/01/best-comics-2022.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2022</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/03/best-movies-tv-2021.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2021</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2022/01/best-comics-2021.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2021</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/03/best-movies-tv-2020.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2020</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-music-2020.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2020</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-comics-2020.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2020</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2020/01/best-movies-tv-2019.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2019</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/12/best-music-2019-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2019</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-movies-tv-2018.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2018</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-music-2018-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2018</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/best-comics-2018.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2018</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2018/01/best-movies-tv-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2017</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-music-2017-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2017</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2017.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2017</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-movies-tv-2016.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2016</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-music-2016-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2016</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-comics-2016.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2016</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-movies-tv-2015.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2015</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2016/01/best-music-2015-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2015</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2015.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2015</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-movies-tv-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/best-music-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2014</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2014.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2014</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-movies-tv-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-music-2013-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2013</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-comics-2013.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2013</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-movies-tv-2012.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2012</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-music-2012-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2012</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/01/best-comix-2012.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2012</a><br />
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<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-movies-tv-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-music-2011-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2011</a><br />
<font color="#00ccff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-comix-2011.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2011</a><br />
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<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-movies-and-tv-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST MOVIES + TV: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-music-2000-2010-with-music-players.html" target="_blank">BEST MUSIC: 2000-2010</a><br />
<font color="#ffffff">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-comix-2000-2010.html" target="_blank">BEST COMICS: 2000-2010</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/01/2001-space-odyssey-its-transcendent.html" target="_blank">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html" target="_blank">How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!</a>, with 3 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-25-years-of.html" target="_blank">TWIN PEAKS: Its Influence on 30 Years of Film, TV, and Music!</a>, with 5 Music Players!<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html" target="_blank">The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-canon-2-50-more-books-that-created.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-canon-3-50-recent-books-that.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr><hr><br />Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-990360406740501342020-01-03T14:10:00.008-08:002024-01-19T16:54:58.103-08:00BEST MUSIC: 2019, with Music Players!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC7SxwLIa0J3qCKhTWm-U9Vy2E3CQYqLjWLmjekg_jDVARHjp8YrUrHzA4Ldg3Mr94kRXMyj2EL9wlXB8J1csT7Esm8wTm1xsaXijgP41RBppFozoxJf4xvdVs6O4LfMOWtNYnu6te2U/s1600/1-BestMusic2019-WeyesBlood-TitanicRising-BestAlbum-RockSex-TymStevens-EliotLeeHazel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC7SxwLIa0J3qCKhTWm-U9Vy2E3CQYqLjWLmjekg_jDVARHjp8YrUrHzA4Ldg3Mr94kRXMyj2EL9wlXB8J1csT7Esm8wTm1xsaXijgP41RBppFozoxJf4xvdVs6O4LfMOWtNYnu6te2U/s1600/1-BestMusic2019-WeyesBlood-TitanicRising-BestAlbum-RockSex-TymStevens-EliotLeeHazel.jpg" data-original-width="395" data-original-height="553" /></a></div><center><font size="5">Weyes<br />
Blood</font><br />
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<center><font COLOR="FFFF66
"><h2>ALL THE</font> <br />
<font COLOR="ffffff
">REAL MUSIC</font><font COLOR="FFFF66
">!</h2></font></center><br />
<center><font COLOR="ccff33"><i>Swipe away all those trendy-indie <br />
'<b>Best Music</b>' lists that taste like envelopes!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="FFFF00
">These bustling tunes will turnpike your psyche <br />
and bumrush your tushie!</i></font></center><br />
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Shortcut to Music Players:<br />
<ul><li> <a href="#C1">BEST ALBUMS: 2019</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C2">COOL SONGS: 2019</a></li>
<li> <a href="#C3">BEST REISSUES: 2019</a></li>
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">BEST ALBUMS 2019<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/68jqCnUUKX4baTyc8bRD08" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><center><small>This is a Spotify player. Join up for free <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/"target=_blank>here</a>.</small></center><br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Weyes Blood</b>, <i>"Titanic Rising"</i></font><br />
<center><font size="2">(pronounced 'wise blood')</font></center><b>The Album Of The Year</b>.<br />
Natalie Mering is making the most beautiful and innovative records around.<br />
Always majestic, her previous stately madrigals have now melted into warm and soulful confessionals, gorgeously adorned with aching keys and Harrison slides, while subliminally underlined by corroded electronics. <br />
Lovely and complex. Essential.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Willie Farmer</b>, <i>"The Man From The Hill"</i></font><br />
Gutbucket Blues.<br />
Soulful songs sidling out with fuzzy swagger.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Yola</b>, <i>"Walk Through Fire"</i></font><br />
Country Soul.<br />
Produced by Dan Auerbach (of The Black Keys), the British singer carries the torch of Stax Records and "<i>Dusty In Memphis</i>" forward. <br />
The epic "<i>Faraway Look</i>" is the <b>Song Of The Year</b>.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Chrysta Bell</b>, <i>"Feels Like Love"</i></font><br />
Advanced TripHop.<br />
Expanding beyond her "<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/07/twin-peaks-its-influence-on-20-years-of.html"target=_blank>Twin Peaks</a>" territory, the unfairly-unsung Bell channels Eurythmics and Kate Bush into new frequencies.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Black Keys</b>, <i>"Let's Rock"</i></font><br />
Bluesy Rock'n'Soul.<br />
Nevermind the digital shrill,<br />
here's the analog Feel.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Orquesta Akokán</b>, <i>"Orquesta Akokán (The Instrumentals)"</i></font><br />
Cuban Mambo.<br />
Last year's party kicker glees up the spree just as great in its Instrumental version.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Lee Fields And The Expressions</b>, <i>"It Rains Love"</i></font><br />
Timeless Soul.<br />
With the sad losses of Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, Daptone Records keeps on keepin' on with the stalwart soul troubadour, Lee Fields. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Seratones</b>, <i>"POWER"</i></font><br />
Rock'n'Soul 2.0.<br />
Louisiana's finest brings us the next level of passionate thump and grind.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Ghost Funk Orchestra</b>, <i>"A Song For Paul"</i></font><br />
Cinematic Art-Soul.<br />
Threading the moody badlands with a funky strut.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Karen O + Danger Mouse</b>, <i>"Lux Prima"</i></font><br />
Electro Noir.<br />
The superduo of Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) get taut while colossal.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Hannah Williams And The Affirmations</b>, <i>"50 Foot Woman"</i></font><br />
Perennial Soul.<br />
Funky vamps, Soul croons, and the breathtaking political anthem "<i>What Can We Do?</i>"<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Here Lies Man</b>, <i>"No Ground To Walk Upon"</i></font><br />
Afrobeat Rock.<br />
Rhythmic double-step with metallic crunch.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Fabienne DelSol</b>, <i>"Four"</i></font><br />
Beat, Garage, and Psyche.<br />
After too long an absence, the French Beat-maven (formerly of The Bristols) returns with immortal sounds. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Kate Tempest</b>, <i>"The Book Of Traps And Lessons"</i></font><br />
Spoken Word.<br />
Kate Tempest, perhaps the most literate Rapper on Earth, strips it to the bone with her razor poetry.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Brittany Howard</b>, <i>"Jaime"</i></font><br />
Eccentric Soul.<br />
The Alabama Shakes leader does an experimental sidebar, trading blues rock for malleable soul confessions. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>White Denim</b>, <i>"Side Effects"</i></font><br />
Grooving Art-Rock.<br />
Catchy as fire, glitchy as Zappa, groovy as bliss.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Our Native Daughters</b>, <i>"Songs Of Our Native Daughters"</i></font><br />
Bluegrass Americana.<br />
A roots supergroup of Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell, using the traditional to critique the present.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Darts <small>(U.S.)</small></b>, <i>"I Like You But Not Like That"</i></font><br />
Garage Rock.<br />
Led by Nicole Laurenne (The Love Me Nots, Motobunny), these hoodlums kick your keister wearing go-go boots.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Ibibio Sound Machine</b>, <i>"Doko Mien"</i></font><br />
New Wave Afrobeat.<br />
Nigerian/Brit Eno Williams preens her machine with '80s sheen.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Limiñanas</b>, <i>"Le bel été"</i></font><br />
Soundtrack.<br />
The usually psychedelic couple evokes the spirits of Morricone, Axelrod, and Vannier in these ambient arias.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Paul Cauthen</b>, <i>"Room 41"</i></font><br />
Soul Country.<br />
Like Waylon Jennings jamming with Hi Records, coming off of a bender or a revelation.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>L7</b>, <i>"Scatter The Rats"</i></font><br />
Grunge Grrrl.<br />
One of Rock's finest bands returns to stomp all assclowns flat.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Angel Olsen</b>, <i>"All Mirrors"</i></font><br />
Symphonic Songwriter.<br />
The mercurial minstrel goes luminous.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Durand Jones And The Indications</b>, <i>"American Love Call"</i></font><br />
Vocal Soul.<br />
Everything right about The Miracles, The Delfonics, and The Chi-Lites, shining clear.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Fay Hallam</b>, <i>"Propeller"</i></font><br />
Psychedelic Yé-yé.<br />
Everything right about trippin' Library Music albums, strobing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Seba Kaapstad</b>, <i>"Thina"</i></font><br />
World NeoSoul.<br />
The nexus of South Africa/Germany opens up new lines of soul-pop communication.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Jackets</b>, <i>"Queen Of The Pill"</i></font><br />
Garage Psyche.<br />
Swiss band led by the terrifying Jackie Brutsche, trashing your place and laughing.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Gary Clark Jr.</b>, <i>"This Land"</i></font><br />
Blues Rock.<br />
The blues paragon goes elastic with reggae, rockabilly, soul, and social commentary.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Chrissie Hynde, The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble</b>, <i>"Valve Bone Woe"</i></font><br />
Melodic Jazz.<br />
Imaginative cover versions swinging with nifty lilt.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Altin Gün</b>, <i>"Gece"</i></font><br />
World Psyche.<br />
Anatolian rock + Turkish Psyche Folk band from The Netherlands.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The High Dials</b>, <i>"Primitive Feelings, Pt. 1"</i></font><br />
Indie Psyche.<br />
Magical mystery trouveurs.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Ikebe Shakedown</b>, <i>"Kings Left Behind"</i></font><br />
Soul Cinerama.<br />
<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-spaghetti-westerns-revolutionized.html"target=_blank>Spaghetti Western</a> Tripadelic Funk. C'mon, you know you want it.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>L'Epee</b>, <i>"Diabolique"</i></font><br />
Psyche Supergroup.<br />
Actor Emmanuelle Seigner, Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), and The Limiñanas alchemize lightning.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Mercury Rev +</b>, <i>"Bobbie Gentry's 'The Delta Sweete' Revisited"</i></font><br />
Swamp Pop Redux.<br />
The indie band honors Bobbie Gentry's 1968 classic album with covers sung by luminaries like Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, Laetitia Sadier, Vashti Bunyan, and Lucinda Williams.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Shivas</b>, <i>"Dark Thoughts"</i></font><br />
Dream Psyche a-go-go. <br />
Do the rite of Shiva.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Mavis Staples</b>, <i>"We Get By"</i></font><br />
Gospel Soul.<br />
The original Woke, since the '50s. Listen up to the legend and learn.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Temples</b>, <i>"Hot Motion"</i></font><br />
Glam Psyche.<br />
Like Syd Barrett swirls with T-Rex saunter.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Control Top</b>, <i>"Covert Contracts"</i></font><br />
PostPunk Grrrl.<br />
Angular rock, anger wrought.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Shafiq Husayn</b>, <i>"The Loop"</i></font><br />
Space-adelic Soul-Hop.<br />
Funky head raps and chorals, with stellar guests.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Olivia Jean</b>, <i>"Night Owl"</i></font><br />
Fuzzadelic Pop.<br />
Like Fabienne Delsol's alternate universe American cousin. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The New Pornographers</b>, <i>"In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights"</i></font><br />
PostGrad Pop.<br />
The indie-pop supergroup collective fronted by Carl Newman and Neko Case, refracting pop sunshine into new spectrums.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Coathangers</b>, <i>"The Devil You Know"</i></font><br />
Garage Punk.<br />
The song "<b><i>F___ The NRA</i></b>" says it all.<br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ccff33">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Claypool Lennon Delirium</b>, <i>"South Of Reality"</i></font><br />
Prog Psyche.<br />
Les Claypool and Sean Lennon perfect their progressive psychedelia. <br />
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<font size="6"><font COLOR="ffffff">•</font></font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The O'Jays</b>, <i>"The Last Word"</i></font><br />
Philly Soul.<br />
The vocal legends' swan song, co-produced by Betty Wright, which exactly captures the sweet tunes and caustic wit of their early-'70s heyday.<br />
"<i>As long as it's workin' in your favor/ You love the law/<br />
Making our lives a livin' hell/ Above the law/<br />
<b>No one is above the law</b>.</i>"<br />
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<font COLOR="FFFF00"><h1><b>C O O L</font><br />
<font COLOR="ccff33">S O N G S :</font><br />
<font COLOR="FFFFFF">2 0 1 9</b></h1></font></a></center><br />
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<center><font COLOR="ffffff"><h2>All the</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">REAL MUSIC</font> <br />
<font COLOR="ffffff">beyond the box!</h2></font></center><br />
<center>Nevermind Gloss Pop, Stepford Idols, Karaoke Choruses <small>("woh-oo-oh")</small>, Ego Brats, Emo Prats, Plinky Folk, Brittle Bombast, Vegas Country, Smug Thug, Mope Noodling, De-mixed Throb, and Robot-o-Tune schlock! <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-why-music-sounds-worse"target=_blank>></a><br />
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<b>Here's the<br />
<font COLOR="FFFF00">D R E A M<br />
J U K E B O X !</font></b></center><br />
<b><center>Shimmy down with more soul<br />
than South Korea!</center></b><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">COOL SONGS 2019<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/1MrBgFblxCM7UM5DJ2nOkA" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><center><small>This is a Spotify player. Join up for free <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/"target=_blank>here</a>.</small></center><br />
<center>*<small>(The Player is limited to the first 200 songs.<br />
Hear the unlimited Playlist <a href="spotify:user:1232946654:playlist:51Fx1D1ZRRB7dwDr5QiWDr"target=_blank>here</a>.)</small></center><br />
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<center>This year's jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly. <br />
All the songs elasticize their genres. <br />
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:</center><br />
<center><i><font COLOR="ccff33">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Beatlesque!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Psyche!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Folk!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Country!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Blues!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Funk!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Covers!</font> <font COLOR="ffffff">RESIST!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">Riot Grrrl!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt-Rap!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Electro!</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt Rock!</font><br />
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<font COLOR="ccff33">World !</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="ccff33">Soundtracks!</font></i></center><br />
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Durand Jones + Indications; The Coathangers;<br />
Gary Clark Jr; Blackwater Holylight</small><br />
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<font COLOR="00ffbf">18 hours</font><font COLOR="00cc00"> of skull-wobbling, fanny-swiveling music</font>, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Rockabilly</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Screamin' Rebel Angels, Bitchwaves, Jen Awad, Bloodshot Bill, Kim Lenz, Delaney Davidson, Barry Saunders, Jontavious Willis, Cow Cow Boogie, Thee Windom Earles, and Kosmik Band.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Girl Group / Surf / Spaghetti Western / Beat / Garage</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Orquesta Akokán, Twin Temple, Charlie Faye & the Fayettes, Isobel Campbell, Ruen Brothers, Pixies, Gitkin, The Limiñanas, Starflyer 59, Satan's Pilgrims, Jim Noir, The Muffs, Ela Orleans, Baby Shakes, Samehada Shiriko And Dynamite, Tony Molina, The Highmarts, Saba Lou, The Resonars, Telekinesis, Parsnip, Nick Waterhouse, Les Breastfeeders, The Darts, The Smoggers, The Night Times, The Jackets, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Fumaça Preta, Fleur, The Shivas, and French Boutik. <br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Psychedelic / Beatlesque</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Weyes Blood, Fabienne DelSol, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Flamingods, The High Dials, Fay Hallam, Temples, Satellite Jockey, Rosalie Cunningham, Andrew Combs, Death and Vanilla, Altin Gün, Cave, Guaxe, L’Epee, Redd Kross, The Cherry Bomb Peppers, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, Mikal Cronin, Drugdealer, Paul McCartney, The Proper Ornaments, Electric Light Orchestra, Ben Watt, Electric Zoo, Sarah Bethe Nelson, and Karkara.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Classic Rock / Glam</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Blackwater Holylight, Hawkwind, The Black Keys, Sharon Van Etten, Mara Balls, Uni, Angel Olsen, Firefriend, Tim Presley, and Thee Oh Sees.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Folk</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Shana Cleveland, Kacy And Clayton, Lillie Mae, Rhiannon Giddens, Heather Woods Broderick, Aldous Harding, and Alice Smith.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Country Soul</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Yola, Paul Cauthen, Jenny Lewis, Renee Wahl, The Sworn Secrets, Lula Wiles, Our Native Daughters, and The Secret Sisters.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Blues</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>J.S. Ondara, Leyla McCalla, Leo "Bud" Welch, Mary Lane, The Ghost Wolves, Willie Farmer, Tristen, and Mavis Staples.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Soul</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Hannah Williams And The Affirmations, Carlton Jumel Smith, Monophonics, The Teskey Brothers, Lee Fields And The Expressions, The Savage Rose, Kelly Finnigan, Seratones, Black Pumas, Los Coast, The Delines, Liz Brasher, Brainstory, Black Monument Ensemble, Durand Jones And The Indications, The Family Daptone, Allen Stone, Charles Bradley And Menahan Street Band, Michael Kiwanuka, Avery R. Young, and Alexis P. Suter Band.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Funk</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Field Music, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Ikebe Shakedown, Coastal County, The Budos Band, Ibibio Sound Machine, Peter Ivers, Karl Denson, and Neal Francis.<br />
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Taron Egerton; Valerie June; Kandle</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Covers</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Sean Pinchin, Katey Brooks, Sleigh Bells, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Dan Melchior Band, Brandon Santini, Deep Sea Diver, Jeffrey Foskett, Beck And Jakob Dylan, GA-20, Gemma Ray, The Chocolate Watchband, Olivia Jean, Night Beats, Chrissie Hynde, Michael Marshall, Bee Bee Sea, Booker T. Jones, Jeff Russo and Lisa Hannigan, Mercury Rev + Lucinda Williams, Las Robertas, Jeff Buckley, Bernard Fowler, Urbandawn, Himesh Patel, Delta Wave, Ringo Starr, Cheap Trick, Taron Egerton, The Specials, Garbage, Valerie June, Bonerama, Kelsey Lu, Ebony Steel Band, Tropical F____ Storm, Whyte Horses, Taylor Hawkins + Queen, Robert Walker's 20th Congress, Bone Collectors, Frankie Rose, Joan As Police Woman, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Childish Tones, Isobel Campbell, Kandle, and Los Straitjackets.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ffffff">R E S I S T </font><font COLOR="ccff33">!</font> •</b></center>Gary Clark Jr, Gang Of Four, DIÄT, Mama Jefferson, The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, Kelly Finnigan, Danielia Cotton, Neil Young, Mavis Staples, Soul Scratch, The Coathangers, Pama International, Kate Tempest, The Bright Light Social Hour, Crazy Horse, Brittany Howard, The New Mastersounds, The O'Jays, The Heavy, and Jim James.<br />
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Death Valley Girls</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Riot Grrrl</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Kim Gordon, Sneaks, Adia Victoria, Lucy and the Rats, Amyl and The Sniffers, Cherry Glazerr, Priests, Tetsuko, Marry Waterson And Emily Barker, Du Blonde, Le Butcherettes, Suzi Quatro, Otoboke Beaver, Gauche, Control Top, Francie Moon, Death Valley Girls, The Let’s Go’s, The Paranoyds, Mattiel, noranekoguts, Nicole Atkins & Jim Sclavunos, Ex Hex, and The Tomboys.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Rock En Espanol</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Cherry Pickles, Melenas, Boogarins, Las Odio, Nina Coyote, and Femina.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt Rap</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Shafiq Husayn, The Comet Is Coming, J.PERIOD, Tenesha The Wordsmith, Flying Lotus, Sarathy Korwar, Little Simz, Chali 2na And Krafty Kuts, and Sadistik.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Electro</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Ladytron, Moon Duo, G&D, Octo Octa, Warmduscher, Automatic, and International Teachers Of Pop.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Alt Rock</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>White Denim, Empath, Piroshka, Black Doldrums, Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something, Mystic Braves, Dhani Harrison, Beck, Karen O And Danger Mouse, Sam Cohen, St. Francis Hotel, Sasami, Spoon, The New Pornographers, Faux Ferocious, Des Demonas, Uranium Club, Mark Lanegan, Meatraffle, and Vanishing Twin.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Africana</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Here Lies Man, Seba Kaapstad, Songhoy Blues, Pony Bravo, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Kaleta And Super Yamba Band, and Odd Okoddo.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">World</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Kutiman and Melike Şahin, Habibi, Derya Yildirim and Grup Şimşek, Mdou Moctar, Los Estanques, Bedouine, and Cochemea.<br />
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Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom</small></center><br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Alt Jazz</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Theon Cross, Matana Roberts, Chris Lightcap, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Joe Armon-Jones, Jaimie Branch, and Cécile McLorin Salvant.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="FFFF00">Cinerama</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Messer Chups, Chrysta Bell, Unloved, Rakta, Quin Arbeitman, Junkie XL, Graham Coxon, Anna Calvi, The Soundtrack Project, Jamie Bell, Tindersticks And Robert Pattinson, Jeff Russo, Ludwig Goransson, and John Williams.<br />
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<center><b>• <font COLOR="ccff33">Happy Holidays</font><font COLOR="ffffff">!</font> •</b></center>Mikal Cronin and Scone Cash Players.<br />
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<font COLOR="FFFF00"><h1><b>B E S T</font><br />
<font COLOR="ccff33">R E I S S U E S :</font><br />
<font COLOR="FFFFFF">2 0 1 9</b></h1></font></a></center><br />
<center><font COLOR="ff00ff"><i><br />
Quality is timeless.</i></font></center><br />
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<font COLOR="ff00ff">the love you take</font><br />
<font COLOR="33ccff">is equal to</font><br />
<font COLOR="ff9900">the love you make.</font></center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8">BEST REISSUES 2019<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2iAbXHnruasegW3qDBSfQF" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><center><small>This is a Spotify player. Join up for free <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/"target=_blank>here</a>.</small></center><br />
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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.<br />
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<center><h2><b><font COLOR="FFFF00">•</font> <font COLOR="FFFFFF">1950s</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Miles Davis</b>, <i>"The Complete Birth Of The Cool"</i></font> (1950)<br />
The pivotal sessions that hinged the transition from Bebop to Cool Jazz. <br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Miles Davis</b>, <i>"The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions"</i></font> (1956)<br />
With John Coltrane, Red Garland, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Link Wray And His Ray Men</b>, <i>"The Link Wray Collection 1956-’62"</i></font><br />
Wray's fiery guitar instrumentals paved the way for Garage Rock, Heavy Metal, and Punk.<br />
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Stax Records; The Stooges; James Brown</small></center><br />
<center><h2><b><font COLOR="FFFFFF">•</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">1960s</font> <font COLOR="FFFFFF">•</font></h2></b></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Ray Charles</b>, <i>"Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols. 1 and 2"</i></font> (1962)<br />
Country and Soul are intertwined, and Ray templated the next decade of each with these crucial records.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Norma Tanega</b>, <i>"Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog"</i></font> (1966)<br />
Askew Folk balladeer gets the spotlight she deserves.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Little Ann</b>, <i>"Detroit’s Secret Soul"</i></font> (1969)<br />
All of her unreleased recordings, finally seeing light.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>The Doors</b>, <i>"Waiting For The Sun"</i></font> (1969)<br />
50th anniversary expansion of the classic album. <br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Doors</b>, <i>"The Soft Parade"</i></font> (1969)<br />
50th anniversary expansion of the classic album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><font size="5"><b>The Beatles</b></font>, <i>"Abbey Road"</i></font> (1969)<br />
One of the greatest albums ever made, remastered along with demos and takes.<br />
Essential.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Stax various artists</b>, <i>"Soul Explosion"</i></font> (1969)<br />
An overview of the massive amount of single releases Stax did to relaunch itself after breaking up with Atlantic Records.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Psyche France, Vol 5 (1960-70)"</i></font><br />
More PsycheGallic tunes, including some of Bernard Chabert's <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1969-esque_20.html"target=_blank>Beatlesque</a> jams.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>The Stooges</b>, <i>"The Stooges"</i></font> (1969)<br />
50th anniversary of the first album, a precursor of Punk.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Motown Unreleased: 1969"</i></font><br />
There are so many riches in the Motown vault and here are still more.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>King Crimson</b>, <i>Catalog reissues</i></font> (1969-'95) <br />
The quintessential Prog band, in all their fascinating permutations.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Fania Goes Psychedelic"</i></font> <br />
Spike some Boogaloo in your hullabaloo.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Bob Dylan</b>, <i>Travelin’ Thru, 1967-’69: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15</i></font> <br />
The Country crooner years, featuring Johnny Cash.<br />
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Richie Havens; Janis Joplin;<br />
Sly Stone; Santana;<br />
Jimi Hendrix; The Who;<br />
<i>We are stardust</i></small></center><br />
<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"<font size="5">WOODSTOCK</font>: Back To The Garden"</i></font> (1969)<br />
The most important concert of all time,<br />
and the coming out party for the actual greatest generation.<br />
Available in 5 LP, 3 CD, 10 CD, and whopping 38 CD versions.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>James Brown</b>, <i>"Live At Home With His Bad Self"</i></font> (1969)<br />
An unreleased live hits album backed by the original JB's.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Chicago</b>, <i>"Chicago Transit Authority"</i></font> (1969)<br />
Their startling debut will force anyone to reassess them fairly.<br />
Astounding chops, evergreen melodies, skronk guitar, and freedom fighter politics.<br />
All Power To The People!<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Jimi Hendrix</b>, <i>"Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts"</i></font> (1969/'70)<br />
Every one of the New Years performances by the Band Of Gypsies. <br />
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<center><h2><b><font COLOR="FFFF00">•</font> <font COLOR="FFFFFF">1970s</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">•</font></b></h2></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The J.B.'s</b>, <i>"More Mess On My Thing"</i></font> (1969-'70)<br />
An unreleased album of the next phase J.B.'s, featuring Catfish and Bootsy Collins, including a 22-minute medley which covers Kool & The Gang, The Meters, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, and George Harrison.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Polly Niles</b>, <i>"Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind: The Lost Album"</i></font> (1970)<br />
An unreleased album of sunny Pop and Soul.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Nat Turner Rebellion</b>, <i>"Laugh To Keep From Crying"</i></font> (1971)<br />
An unreleased album of the vocal combo with raised fists.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Marvin Gaye</b>, <i>"What’s Going On (Live)"</i></font> (1972)<br />
Unreleased live performances, touring one of the greatest albums ever made.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Cambodian Nuggets"</i></font> (late-'60s/early-'70s)<br />
Ros Sereysothea sang fuzzy rock tunes, and for that the Pol Pot regime murdered her.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide"target=_>></a><br />
Buy this record and raise a middle finger to all dictators.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>R.D. Burman</b>, <i>"The Bullet Train"</i></font> (1970s)<br />
Burman scored many of the most adventurous Bollywood scores of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, and this is a retrospective.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Various Artists</b>, <i>"Soul Jazz Records Presents: Nigeria Soul Power 70: Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Afro Disco"</i></font> (1970s)<br />
Beyond Fela, African music underwent sonic revolutions in the '70s, but often got overwritten by oppressive political revolutions.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Curtis Mayfield</b>, <i>"Keep On Keeping On: Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-1974"</i></font><br />
All of the essential early-'70s solo albums (except for 1972's "<i>Super Fly</i>"), prime for rediscovery.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Marvin Gaye</b>, <i>"You’re The Man"</i></font> (1972)<br />
A reconstruction of the 'missing album' sessions between "<i>What's Going On</i>" (1971) and "<i>Let's Get It On</i>" (1973).<br />
The political first third is amazing.<br />
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Dead Kennedys</small></center><br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Gene Clark</b>, <i>"No Other"</i></font> (1974)<br />
Gene's moody, complex, and especially soulful album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Mick Ronson</b>, <i>"Only After Dark: The Complete Mainman Recordings"</i></font> (1974-'76)<br />
The three albums that guitarist Ronson made on Bowie's label after going solo.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Undisputed Truth</b>, <i>"Cosmic Truth"</i></font> (1975)<br />
Norman Whitfield's answer to Funkadelic, finally rereleased.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>The Undisputed Truth</b>, <i>"Higher Than High"</i></font> (1975)<br />
Like The Temptations, the Family Stone, and Funkadelic having a debauched weekend.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Suicide</b>, <i>"Suicide"</i></font> (1977)<br />
The nervy record that launched a million cold-synth acts.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf"><b>Dead Kennedys</b>, <i>"Iguana Studios Rehearsal Tape -San Francisco 1978"</i></font><br />
The standard bearers of American political punk, galloping on surf clang.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>The Pop Group</b>, <i>"Y"</i></font> (1979)<br />
PostPunk agitprop of the first order.<br />
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<font COLOR="cc66ff">Sex</font><br />
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<center><h2><b><font COLOR="FFFFFF">•</font> <font COLOR="FFFF00">1980s</font> <font COLOR="FFFFFF">•</font></h2></b></center><br />
<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Dinosaur L</b>, <i>"24-24 Music"</i></font> (1982)<br />
Arthur Russell's experimental mutant disco, which rebounded across all the cutting edge dancefloors.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Arthur Russell</b>, <i>"Iowa Dream"</i></font> (1974-1985)<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Dreams-Downtown-1973-1992/dp/0822344858"target=_blank>></a><br />
More of Arthur's unreleased folk work, introspective and eclectic.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Konk</b>, <i>"The Magic Force Of Konk 1981-1988"</i></font><br />
Maybe more so than their peers Talking Heads, Liquid Liquid, and ESG, Konk were the intersection of afrobeat, jazz, funk, and hip hop.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Prince</b>, <i>"1999"</i></font> (1982)<br />
The essential double album, doubled out again with unreleased tracks, plus b-sides and live takes.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Prince</b>, <i>"Originals"</i></font><br />
Prince's original demos of songs he gave to other artists.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>The Smithereens</b>, <i>"Demos 1: Girls About Town/Beauty And Sadness/ Especially For You"</i></font> ('81-'86)<br />
Demos for the initial EPs and debut album.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="cc66ff"><b>Beastie Boys</b>, <i>"An Exciting Evening At Home With Shadrach, Meshach And Abednego"</i></font> (EP, 1989)<br />
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the "<i>Paul's Boutique</i>" album, these two EPS were reissued.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="9933ff"><b>Beastie Boys</b>, <i>"Love American Style"</i></font> (EP, 1989)<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ff8000"><b>Bikini Kill</b>, <i>Catalog reissues</i></font> (1991-'96)<br />
Revolution Grrrl Style Now And Forever!<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="ffbf00"><b>Harry Nilsson</b>, <i>"Losst And Founnd"</i></font> (1994)<br />
The unreleased album that Nilsson was working on at the time of his passing.<br />
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<font size="6">•</font> <font COLOR="00cc00"><b>Queens of the Stone Age</b>, <i>"Songs For The Deaf"</i></font> (2002)<br />
Their breakthrough and best album, like robotik stoner rock with Cream harmonies.<br />
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• <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-star-wars-is-changing-everything.html" target="_blank">How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!</a><br />
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• <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-canon-50-books-that-created-modern.html" target="_blank">THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture</a>, with Music Player<br />
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<hr><hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-14096580134730994532019-12-31T18:27:00.002-08:002020-12-30T16:41:28.927-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR! with New Years Songs music player<br />
<center>Quality is timeless.<br />
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Make a better future.</center><br />
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<center><small><font COLOR="9370D8"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>:<br />
Rock'n'Soul Playlist,<br />
by Tym Stevens</font></small></center><center><iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6e3tawHRYVrKThqLKcUyZM" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></center><center><small>This is a Spotify player. Join up for free <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/"target=_blank>here</a>.</small></center><br />
A history of NEW YEARS songs from the 1950s to today, in chronological order.<br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="00cc00">Rockabilly!</font> <font COLOR="00ffbf">Jazz!</font> <font COLOR="00cc00">Blues!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff9900">Soundtracks!</font> <font COLOR="#ff6600">Soul!</font> <font COLOR="#ff9900">Country!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#cc66ff">Garage!</font> <font COLOR="#9933ff">Psychedelic!</font> <font COLOR="#cc66ff">Funk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ccff66">Glam!</font> <font COLOR="#ffff66">Reggae!</font> <font COLOR="#ccff66">Punk!</font><br />
<font COLOR="#ff66cc">New Wave!</font> <font COLOR="#ff3399">HipHop!</font> <font COLOR="#ff66cc">Electro!</font></b><br />
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-<a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-real-history-of-rock-and-soul-music.html"target=_blank>The Real History of Rock and Soul!: A Music Player Checklist</a><br />
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<hr>Tym Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00424388160205524569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613581596930904829.post-53290118980961093402019-08-16T23:19:00.039-07:002024-01-02T09:23:49.958-08:00BEATLES 'Reunion Anthology': 1970-Now <br />
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<center><b><h1><font COLOR="#ffffff">BEATLESQUE SONGS</font></h1></b></center><center><b><h2><font COLOR="#ffffff">#9</font> of <font COLOR="#99cc00">9</font></h2></b></center><br />
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Roll up for the '<font COLOR="#ffffff"><b>BEATLES Reunion</b></font>' Anthology; <br />
a playlist of over 185 Beatlesque Solo (+ family) songs simulating a fantasy Reunion, as if the band had continued from 1970 to today.<br />
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<center><font COLOR="#ffffff">"The <b>Magical Mystery Tour</b> is waiting<br />
to take you away..."</font></center><br />
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<font COLOR="#99cc00">Shortcut link:</font><br />
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<font COLOR="99cc00">•</font> 2) <a href="#C2">Songs list</a><br />
<font COLOR="99cc00">•</font> 3) <a href="#C3">Reunion essay</a><br />
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<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1963-esque.html"target=_blank>1963</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1964-esque.html"target=_blank>1964</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1965-esque.html"target=_blank>1965</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1966-esque.html"target=_blank>1966</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1967-esque.html"target=_blank>1967</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1968-esque.html"target=_blank>1968</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1969-esque_20.html"target=_blank>1969</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1970-esque.html"target=_blank>1970</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="99cc00">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatles-reunion-anthology-1970-now.html"target=_blank>'REUNION' 1970-Now</a></center><br />
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<center><h1><font COLOR="#99cc00">BEATLESQUE<br />
Solo songs</font></h1><font size="5"><b>1970-Today</b><br />
A <i>Fantasy Reunion</i> Anthology</font><br />
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<font size="5"><font COLOR="D4FF2B">John</font><br />
<font COLOR="33ccff">Paul</font><br />
<font COLOR="ff9900">George</font><br />
<font COLOR="ff00ff">Ringo</font></font><br />
<font size="2">and Family</font></center><br />
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John + Paul '74; Ringo + John '76.</small></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Love</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">All Things Must Pass</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Maybe I'm Amazed</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Coochy Coochy</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">My Sweet Lord</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Instant Karma</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Singalong Junk</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Encouraging Words</font>", Billy Preston (w/ George) <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Look At Me</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Every Night</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Well Well Well</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Isn't It A Pity</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('70)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 1 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Early 1970</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ George) <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Imagine</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey</font>", Paul + Linda McCartney <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Mrs. Lennon</font>", Yoko Ono <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Oh My Love</font>", John Lennon (w/ George) <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Back Seat Of My Car</font>", Paul + Linda McCartney <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Jealous Guy</font>" (instr.), John Lennon <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">You Done Got Older</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">It Don't Come Easy</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Long Haired Lady</font>", Paul + Linda McCartney <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Gimme Some Truth</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Too Many People</font>", Percy Thrillington <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Bangla Desh</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Happy Xmas (War Is Over)</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">When The Wind Is Blowing</font>", Wings <font size="2">('71)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Back Off Boogaloo</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ George) <font size="2">('72)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Blackbird</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('72)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">New York City</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('72)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Best Friend</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('72)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">I'm The Greatest</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ John + George) <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Live And Let Die</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Meat City</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Death Of Samantha</font>", Yoko Ono <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Minuet For Me</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Photograph</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ George) <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Hi Hi Hi</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Approximately Infinite Universe</font>", Yoko Ono <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">You Are Here</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Six O'Clock</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('73)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 4 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Band On The Run</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">#9 Dream</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">The Beatle Suite</font>", George Martin <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Let Me Roll It</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Steel And Glass</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Day Tripper</font>" (Live), Billy Preston <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five</font>", Paul McCartney & Wings <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Goodnight Vienna</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ John) <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Dark Horse</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Scared</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('74)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 5 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Soily</font>", Wings <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Move Over Ms L</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">I Can't Stand It</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Venus And Mars (Reprise)</font>", Wings <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">You Can't Catch Me</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Love In Song</font>", Wings <font size="2">('75)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 6 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">I'll Still Love You</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('76)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Let 'Em In</font>", Wings <font size="2">('76)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Ecstasy</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('76)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Beware My Love</font>" (live), Wings <font size="2">('76)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">It's In What You Value</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('76)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 7 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Now And Then</font>", written by John Lennon <font size="2">('77)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Wings</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('77)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">One Of The Boys</font>" demo, John Lennon <font size="2">('77)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 8 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">I'm Carrying</font>", Wings <font size="2">('78)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Hard Times</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('78)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Don't Let It Bring You Down</font>", Wings <font size="2">('78)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Get Back</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('78)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 7 9 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Winter Rose/Love Awake</font>", Wings <font size="2">('79)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Blow Away</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('79)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">India India</font>" demo, John Lennon <font size="2">('79)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Here Comes The Moon</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('79)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Old Siam, Sir</font>", Wings <font size="2">('79)</font><br />
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GR+P, Ringo's wedding '81;<br />
GR + Yoko, Sean, Julian -Grammy Awards '88<br />
<font size="2">(photo: Bob Gruen)</font>.</small></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">I'm Losing You</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">On The Way</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Woman</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him</font>", Yoko Ono + John Lennon <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">One Of These Days</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Grow Old With Me</font>", John Lennon <font size="2">('80)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 1 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Wrack My Brain</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ George) <font size="2">('81)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Attention</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('81)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">All Those Years Ago</font>", George Harrison (w/ Paul + Ringo) <font size="2">('81)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Here Today</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('82)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Circles</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('82)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Tug Of War</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('82)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Wanderlust</font>", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) <font size="2">('82)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Going Down</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('83)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">I Don't Want To Do It</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('83)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Pipes Of Peace</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('83)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 4 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Valotte</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('84)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Eleanor Rigby/ Eleanor's Dream</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('84)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Let Me Count The Ways</font>", Yoko Ono <font size="2">('84)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Beatle Tribute</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('84)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 6 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Want Your Body</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('86)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">However Absurd</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('86)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 7 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">When We Was Fab</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('87)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Johnny B. Goode</font>" (live), Chuck Berry + Julian Lennon <font size="2">('87)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 8 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Lucille</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('88)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Handle Me With Care</font>", Traveling Wilburys <font size="2">('88)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">1 9 8 9 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Sunday Morning</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('89)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">My Brave Face</font>" demo, Paul McCartney + Elvis Costello <font size="2">('89)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Cheer Down</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('89)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Don't Be Careless Love</font>" demo, Paul McCartney + Elvis Costello <font size="2">('89)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Veronica</font>", Elvis Costello (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('89)</font><br />
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<small><font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font>(Produced by <font COLOR="ffffff">George Martin</font>.)</small><br />
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Ringo, Paul, George, + George Martin.</small></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">New Blue Moon</font>", Traveling Wilburys <font size="2">('90)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 1 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Saltwater</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('91)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Roll Over Beethoven</font>" (live), George Harrison <font size="2">('91)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Weight Of The World</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('92)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Hope Of Deliverance</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('93)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Strawberries, Oceans, Ships, Forest</font>", The Fireman <font size="2">('93)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 5 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Talking To The Universe</font>", Yoko Ono + Oma (w/ Sean Ono Lennon) <font size="2">('95)</font><br />
<font COLOR="66ff66">•</font> "<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffffff"><b>Free As A Bird</b></font></font>", <font size="5"><b>The Beatles</b></font> <font size="2">('95)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 6 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="66ff66">•</font> "<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffffff"><b>Real Love</b></font></font>", <font size="5"><b>The Beatles</b></font> <font size="2">('96)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 7 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Beautiful Night</font>", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) <font size="2">('97)<font COLOR="ffffcc">*</font></font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Great Day</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('97)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Looking For You</font>", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) <font size="2">(rec. '97)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Glory Tales. Trionfale</font>", Paul McCartney + LSO <font size="2">('97)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Really Love You</font>", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) <font size="2">('97)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 8 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">King Of Broken Hearts</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ George) <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">I Don't Wanna Know</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Vertical Man</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Watercolour Guitars</font>", The Fireman <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Queue</font>", Sean Ono Lennon <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">La De Da</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('98)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">1 9 9 9 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Run Devil Run</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('99)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('99)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Somedays</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('99)</font><br />
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Cirque du Soleil's LOVE '06.</small></center><br />
<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Plastic Beetle</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('00)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 1 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Horse To The Water</font>", George Harrison + Jools Holland <font size="2">('01)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">A Long Time Gone</font>", Electric Light Orchestra, w/ George <font size="2">('01)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Riding Into Jaipur</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('01)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Rising Sun</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('02)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Marwa Blues</font>", George Harrison <font size="2">('02)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</font>" (live), McCartney/Starr/Clapton <font size="2">('02)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Photograph</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('02)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">My Sweet Lord</font>", Billy Preston <font size="2">('02)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Something</font>" (live), Paul McCartney <font size="2">('03)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Instant Amnesia</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('03)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Elizabeth Reigns</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('03)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 5 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Jenny Wren</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('05)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">English Tea</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('05)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Don't Hang Up</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('05)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Long Haired Lady (Reprise)</font>", Twin Freaks <font size="2">('05)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 6 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Truly</font>", thenewno2 <font size="2">('06)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Parachute</font>", Sean Ono Lennon <font size="2">('06)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Spectacle</font>", Sean Ono Lennon <font size="2">('06)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 7 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Gimme Some Truth</font>", Jakob Dylan + Dhani Harrison <font size="2">('07)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Mr Bellamy</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('07)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Nod Your Head</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('07)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 8 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Another John Doe</font>", thenewno2 <font size="2">('08)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">For Love</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('08)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight</font>", The Fireman <font size="2">('08)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 0 9 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">A Day In The Life/ Give Peace A Chance</font>" (live), Paul McCartney <font size="2">('09)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Walk With You</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('10)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">The World Was Made For Men</font>", The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger <font size="2">('10)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Father's Son</font>", Fistful Of Mercy <font size="2">('10)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 1 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Invisible</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('11)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Disconnected</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('11)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Live A Lie</font>", thenewno2 <font size="2">('11)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Cut Me Some Slack</font>", Paul McCartney + Nirvana <font size="2">('12)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Anthem</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('12)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">All That You Wanted</font>", Matt Backer + Julian Lennon <font size="2">('12)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Bluebell</font>", James McCartney <font size="2">('13)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Make It Home</font>", thenewno2 <font size="2">('13)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Rain In England</font>", Tony Mortimer + Julian Lennon <font size="2">('13)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">New</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('13)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Hosanna</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('13)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 4 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Devil You Know</font>", The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger <font size="2">('14)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 6 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Bubbles Burst</font>", The Claypool Lennon Delirium <font size="2">('16)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Alice</font>", James McCartney <font size="2">('16)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 7 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Never Know</font>", Dhani Harrison <font size="2">('17)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Give More Love</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('17)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 8 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Despite Repeated Warnings</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('18)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Do It Now</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('18)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc9900">2 0 1 9 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Grow Old With Me</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('19)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">In A Hurry</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('19)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 2 0 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="33ccff">Slidin'</font>", Paul McCartney <font size="2">('20)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 2 2 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Feeling The Sunlight</font>", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) <font size="2">('22)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="D4FF2B">Round And Round Again</font>", Julian Lennon <font size="2">('22)</font><br />
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<font COLOR="cc6600">2 0 2 3 ________</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff9900">Ghost Garden</font>", Dhani Harrison <font size="2">('23)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ff00ff">Miss Jean</font>", Ringo Starr <font size="2">('23)</font><br />
<font COLOR="0099ff">•</font> "<font COLOR="ffffcc">Let It Be</font>", Dolly Parton, with Paul + Ringo <font size="2">('23)</font><br />
<font COLOR="66ff66">•</font> "<font size="5"><font COLOR="ffffff"><b>Now And Then</b></font></font>", <font size="5"><b>The Beatles</b></font> <font size="2">('23)</font><br />
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<center><font COLOR="#99cc00">JOHN PAUL GEORGE RINGO</font></center><br />
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The archaic narrative is that <font COLOR="#ffffff"><b>The Beatles</b></font> were a beautiful romance that ended with a bitter divorce. But conflict narratives are agitprop for tabloid hacks, and the true story is that their love resolved all pain across time, for themselves and their supporters.<br />
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The apex of this is in the real Reunion songs "<i><b>Free As A Bird</b></i>", "<i><b>Real Love</b></i>", and "<i><b>Now And Then</b></i>".<br />
By themselves they are lovely songs with resonant grace, which is all they need be. Larger, they are also metaphors of redemptive alchemy; at their heart is a haunting ache now transformed into elegant psalms for the ages, full of redemption and resolve from shared experience. Any failure by some to appreciate this is simply that. These wonderful hymns are Love and they are thus loved.<br />
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The Beatles were unable to actually get back together as a quartet because of fate. In one regard, this <b>Reunion Playlist</b> is a hopeful fantasy of what songs they might have recorded as a band over the years.<br />
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In another light, each of these songs exist because each soul never lost the person they had been.<br />
Their personal paths weren't a denial of their past, but a fulfillment of their diverse possibilities. And along the way, facets of their original core continued "shimmering, glimmering". Even solo, they consistently made particularly Beatlesque songs in the same general spark or specific sound as they had together.<br />
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The real re-union of The Beatles was in spirit across time.<br />
Their bond of mutual love was borne out in song, in an arc that resolved grief, anger, and disappointment into humility, kinship, and respect. Gradually they became comfortable with their full identity and their fellowship again. Because of this, whether made solo, or by duets, or trios, or family, each of these actually is a real Beatles song. This player is really about their <b>reunification of spirit</b>, as a brotherhood, a family, a happy legacy.<br />
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We were blessed to have had the band, and we've been rewarded with the family songs that have continued to come since then. <br />
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<center><font COLOR="#99cc00">LENNON McCARTNEY HARRISON STARKEY</font></center><br />
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<font COLOR="#ffffff"><b>The Beatles</b></font> were The Beatles, until they weren't.<br />
They became four individuals who expanded their merit on their own. Along the way they fought, flirted, and gradually reconciled with each other and with their legacy. This player charts that parallel journey of the four souls with reverence.<br />
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Their sons aren't The Beatles and aren't supposed to be.<br />
They are five individuals who continually prove their own merits in their unique ways. Along their own paths, they have occasionally channeled the sonic spirit of their fathers -as they have as much right to do as all the other musicians who did- and those moments are included here just for fun and family.<br />
But <b>Julian Lennon</b>, <b>Sean Ono Lennon</b>, <b>James McCartney</b>, <b>Dhani Harrison</b>, and <b>Zak Starkey</b> are their own selves, and we respect them best by letting them be.<br />
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Follow your hearts, have fun, create progress, reunite the world.<br />
<b>Love</b>.<br />
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Sean, Yoko, + Ringo; Dhani + Paul;<br />
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Julian + Sean; Julian + Dhani;<br />
Sean + Dhani; Sean + James;<br />
Dhani + James; James + Zak.</small></center><br />
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<center><b><font COLOR="#ffffff">"</font><font COLOR="D4FF2B">And in the end,</font> <font COLOR="33ccff">the love you take</font><br />
<font COLOR="ff9900">is equal to the</font> <font COLOR="ff00ff">love you make</font><font COLOR="#ffffff">."</b></font></center><br />
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<center>Hear the whole <font COLOR="#99cc00">BEATLESQUE Songs</font> series:<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1963-esque.html"target=_blank>1963</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1964-esque.html"target=_blank>1964</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1965-esque.html"target=_blank>1965</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1966-esque.html"target=_blank>1966</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1967-esque.html"target=_blank>1967</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1968-esque.html"target=_blank>1968</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1969-esque_20.html"target=_blank>1969</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="1ab2ff">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatlesque-songs-1970-esque.html"target=_blank>1970</a>-esque<br />
<font COLOR="99cc00">•</font> <a href="https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2019/08/beatles-reunion-anthology-1970-now.html"target=_blank>'REUNION' 1970-Now</a></center><br />
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<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2010/11/beatlesque-200-alternate-universe.html"target=_blank>BEATLESQUE Albums: 400 Alternate Universe BEATLES Albums You Need!</a>, with 2 massive Music Players!<br />
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<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/10/lennonesque-all-star-homage-playlists.html"target=_blank>LENNONesque: All-Star Homage Playlists To John Lennon's BEATLES And SOLO Styles!</a>, with 2 Music Players<br />
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<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/06/paul-mccartney-all-star-homage.html"target=_blank>McCARTNEY-esque: All-Star Homage Playlists To His BEATLES And SOLO Styles!</a>, with 2 Music Players<br />
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<font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <font COLOR="FF0000">•</font> <a href="http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2013/06/brian-wilson-all-star-tribute-to-his.html"target=_blank>BRIAN WILSON-esque: All The Songs Imitating His BEACH BOYS Music Styles!</a>, with 2 Music Players<br />
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