Jack Beltane's Blog, page 5
July 11, 2021
This is why I continue to buy “number ones” week after week…...
This is why I continue to buy “number ones” week after week… “Basilisk” proves with #2 that it’s what comics are all about (I mean, if you like horror comics, I guess…). Totally fresh, inventive, well written, and the artwork is top-notch.
June 24, 2021
From “Barbarella” by Jean-Claude Forest (1962-1964), adap...
From “Barbarella” by Jean-Claude Forest (1962-1964), adapted in English by Kelly Sue DeConnick (2014)
From “Barbarella” by Jean-Claude Forest (1962-1964), adapted in English by Kelly Sue...
From “Barbarella” by Jean-Claude Forest (1962-1964), adapted in English by Kelly Sue DeConnick (2014)
March 5, 2021
Original vamps… Theda Bara in “The Unchastened Woman” (19...
Original vamps… Theda Bara in “The Unchastened Woman” (1925) and Jean Brooks in “The Seventh Victim” (1943).
Original vamps… Theda Bara in “The Unchastened Woman” (1925) and Jean Brooks in...
Original vamps… Theda Bara in “The Unchastened Woman” (1925) and Jean Brooks in “The Seventh Victim” (1943).
December 23, 2020
Black Christmas (1974), one of the best “at Christmas but...
Black Christmas (1974), one of the best “at Christmas but not about Christmas” movies, where one of the spookiest horror tropes originated.
Black Christmas (1974), one of the best “at Christmas but not about Christmas” movies,...
Black Christmas (1974), one of the best “at Christmas but not about Christmas” movies, where one of the spookiest horror tropes originated.
September 9, 2020
Westworld, season 3
Westworld, season 3
August 6, 2020
World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring ...
World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring Tron, The Matrix, Westworld, and the whole idea that we’re living in a computer simulation. The film is taken from the novel “Simulacron-3” (1964), and the inpsiration for the novel is explained in the New Yorker article, “How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future” (July 27, 2020):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future
World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring Tron, The Matrix, Westworld, and the whole...
World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring Tron, The Matrix, Westworld, and the whole idea that we’re living in a computer simulation. The film is taken from the novel “Simulacron-3” (1964), and the inpsiration for the novel is explained in the New Yorker article, “How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future” (July 27, 2020):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future
