A surprisingly melancholy movie. Pretty somber through its whole runtime. The poster says not to tell why his hair turned green, so I won't do it myself. But I will post the scene that explains it. (Spoilers, of course.)
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A surprisingly melancholy movie. Pretty somber through its whole runtime. The poster says not to tell why his hair turned green, so I won't do it myself. But I will post the scene that explains it. (Spoilers, of course.)
About to watch 'The Boy with Green Hair' (1948). Known for introducing the song "Nature Boy", and for actually doing pretty well with critics. Really shows that you can make a story with a fantasy conceit by doing pretty much anything. "What if a boy's hair suddenly turned green."
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
About to watch 'The Boy with Green Hair' (1948). Known for introducing the song "Nature Boy", and for actually doing pretty well with critics. Really shows that you can make a story with a fantasy conceit by doing pretty much anything. "What if a boy's hair suddenly turned green."
Surely not a new observation, but the 1st episode of Adventures of Superman starts with the narrator saying Kryptonians were "men and women like ourselves, but advanced to the absolute peak of human perfection." We then see Krypton's rulers, white guys who doom everyone by not trusting the scientist
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Surely not a new observation, but the 1st episode of Adventures of Superman starts with the narrator saying Kryptonians were "men and women like ourselves, but advanced to the absolute peak of human perfection." We then see Krypton's rulers, white guys who doom everyone by not trusting the scientist
The first episode of 'The Adventures of Superman' has a variation on "Show, don't tell" that has never occurred to me before: "Show, and then later in the same episode start telling what you already showed, and then instead of that, have a narrator drown out the telling with also telling."
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The first episode of 'The Adventures of Superman' has a variation on "Show, don't tell" that has never occurred to me before: "Show, and then later in the same episode start telling what you already showed, and then instead of that, have a narrator drown out the telling with also telling."
'Mr. Freedom' is a 1969 film, made in France but with the dialogue in English, about an American superhero who comes to France and "America, Fuck Yeah!"s everybody.
You have to admit, they got us good.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
'Mr. Freedom' is a 1969 film, made in France but with the dialogue in English, about an American superhero who comes to France and "America, Fuck Yeah!"s everybody.