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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (7 August 2023)

Posted on August 7, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Who would’ve thought that one of the most fun Batman movies ever would be The Flash? Don’t get me wrong, the latest big screen superhero extravaganza is veeeery hit-and-miss, but that only makes it the perfect capstone to decades of … Continue reading →

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More Batman movies without Batman

Posted on June 22, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 I was hoping to be back to longer posts this month, but it has been one hell of a year, so I’ll just stick to the regular COMICS CAN BE AWESOME section for a while … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (29 May 2023)

Posted on May 29, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Let’s finish this month’s reminders that comics can be awesome by going back to the ‘90s, when covers raised absurd macho bullshit to hilarious extremes, displaying the kind of shamelessly dumb and eagerly badass attitude still echoed in recent films … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1949-1958 – part 2

Posted on February 23, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Last week, I mentioned that humor played a key role in Lucky Luke from the very beginning. Today, I want to take a closer look at the types of humor developed in the series’ earliest years… The Bluefeet are Coming! … Continue reading →

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More cool episodes of Mission: Impossible

Posted on January 11, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

This is Gotham Calling’s 600th post! As usual, I like to signal these benchmarks with longer listicles (a hundred posts ago I listed my favorite westerns), so today I’m doing a follow-up to the post from last September ranking the … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (31 October 2022)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

At Gotham Calling, Halloween is the time when I usually highlight my favorite recent horror movies. In past years, I chose stuff from the margins that surprised and affected me – Censor and Antebellum – but this time my pick … Continue reading →

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If you like The Big Lebowski…

Posted on October 12, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! After the critically acclaimed maturity and sensitivity of Fargo, Joel and Ethan Coen pulled yet another switch by delivering a stoner crime comedy packed with profanity (it was as if … Continue reading →

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Cool trips into the multiverse

Posted on September 22, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

Movie blockbusters have been moving into an ouroboros-like postmodern entropy for a while, from Ready Player One and the LEGO franchise to Space Jam: A New Legacy and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, not to mention the whole MCU meta-series … Continue reading →

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If you like Fargo…

Posted on June 16, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

The film. Not the show. It’s easy to see why Fargo (1996) became the Coen brothers’ most acclaimed picture. The devastating story of a frustrated car salesman (an unnervingly anxious William H. Macy) who hires a couple of thugs to … Continue reading →

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If you like The Hudsucker Proxy…

Posted on May 26, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

For their fifth film, Joel and Ethan Coen went back to the slapstick tone and rhythm of Raising Arizona, once again channeling the Looney Tunes, only this time around blended with the flavor of old Hollywood screwball comedies about big … Continue reading →

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