Tezuka’s Barbara first published by Little White Lies, as the 130th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Following the publication of his groundbreaking New Treasure Island in 1947 which ushered in the Golden Age of manga, Osamu Tezuka would, with his popular series like AstroBoy, Princess Knight and Kimba the White Lion, become known variously…
The Columnist (De Kuthoer) first published by VODzilla.co Ivo van Aart’s The Columnist begins with a television debate, in a studio, in front of a live audience and cameras. The topic is “Twitter, a curse or a blessing?”, and divorced mother, feminist and newspaper columnist Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is there to make the case…
“What is it about the suburbs?”, wonders Mary (Deanna Russo) aloud in The Ice Cream Truck, as the driver of an actual ice cream truck waves to her from the street. There is something hyperreal, dare one say it, ‘Lynchian’, about this scene – the perfect houses, the immaculate lawns, the sunny skies, and that…