After directing more than twenty feature films in Britain, Alfred Hitchcock’s big introduction to Hollywood came in the form of two films released only four months apart in 1940, both of which were nominated for that year’s Best Picture Academy Award. The gothic chamber drama Rebecca ended up taking home the Oscar, while the trans-continental wartime adventure Foreign Correspondent eventually became all but a footnote in the Hitchcock canon. While Rebecca is no doubt a complex, layered masterwork with its fair share of brilliant Hitchcockian touches (check out IndieWire’s excellent take on the film’s lesbian themes), critics and historians have contended that Rebecca was at least as much a David O. Selznick film as it was a Hitchcock entry. In fact, Hitch himself told Truffaut that he didn’t see Rebecca as a Hitchcock picture because of its lack of humor. But Foreign Correspondent (whose Criterion treatment was released this week) displays a more...
- 2/18/2014
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
"Smallville" fans might be pleased to know that while the show is no longer on the air, the story continues in comic book form. Season 11 of the show was first released digitally April 13, 2012, and continues to entertain fans of the series.
DC Comics also publishes a series of parallel adventures, which started with an issue featuring the John Jones recurring character teaming with Batman. Issue 2, which releases July 31, has another interesting team up, this time it's Lois Lane and a returning Lana Lang. Lang (portrayed in the TV series by Kristin Kreuk) was last season in the Season 8 episode "Requiem," after being infected with Kryptonite and no longer able to be around Clark Kent/Superman.
The issue finds Lois traveling to Africa to investigate The Angel of the Plateau, a superhero alias being used by Lana. It's written by Bryan Q. Miller with art by Cat Staggs. "Smallville" Season 11 Special...
DC Comics also publishes a series of parallel adventures, which started with an issue featuring the John Jones recurring character teaming with Batman. Issue 2, which releases July 31, has another interesting team up, this time it's Lois Lane and a returning Lana Lang. Lang (portrayed in the TV series by Kristin Kreuk) was last season in the Season 8 episode "Requiem," after being infected with Kryptonite and no longer able to be around Clark Kent/Superman.
The issue finds Lois traveling to Africa to investigate The Angel of the Plateau, a superhero alias being used by Lana. It's written by Bryan Q. Miller with art by Cat Staggs. "Smallville" Season 11 Special...
- 7/26/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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