Critics At Large

Theater of Cruelty , by Tana Oshima. “At first I thought my work was about desecration, but instead it became a more complex landscape of hu...

Cover art for We Told You So: An Oral History of Fantagraphics Books , by Daniel Clowe. Fantagraphics, the most important American pu...

Lyrica Okano, Ariela Barer, Rhenzy Feliz, Virginia Gardner and Gregg Sulkin in Marvel's Runaways , on Hulu. On November 21, Hulu...

Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets . Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets wasn’t t...

Celebrating birthdays is complicated enough when you're discussing people, let alone when you start talking about a nation. For a f...

A panel from Swamp Thing , story by Len Wein and art by  Bernie Wrightson, November, 1972. When comic book geeks gather to talk about...

From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 91.1) in Toronto. With ...

Colin Firth and Taron Egerton in Kingsman: The Secret Service . My issues with graphic novelist Mark Millar, creator of...

Real World 25 , from Peter Gabriel's Real World label is one of many great gift possibilities this holiday season. It’s the holid...

Eric Bana in  Deliver Us From Evil Has there ever been a good horror movie about demonic possession? A few years ago, there was a re...

Author G. Willow Wilson (Photo by Amber French) "They're marching together," said Alif, half to himself. "All th...

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey ...

Snowpiercer , translated from a 1980s French graphic novel called Le Transperceneige , takes place in a post-apocalyptic future wherein ...

I may not be particularly enamoured of the movies much of late – their overall quality is abysmal and they just don’t seem to have the c...

When Steven Spielberg awarded the Palme d’Or to Blue is the Warmest Color  – released on DVD this year by the Criterion Collection ...

“If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian.” – Paul McCartney In 1965, the Beatles went to Buckingham Palace to receive their MBE...

Writer Harlan Ellison’s not dead yet. In a piece I wrote about Ellison last year in Critics at Large , and in reference to his statement...

A scene from The Rabbi's Cat With over a hundred separate titles since he first began publishing nearly 20 years ago, Joann S...

A panel from "Maiden Voyage" by Kazu Kibuishi (collected in Flight, Volume One) One of the greatest joys of the web is th...

Batman and Plastic Man battle some super-intelligent apes in Batman: The Brave and the Bold . Batman has long been my favourite sup...