THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (2006, directed by Ken Loach, 127 minutes, U.K.) 28 WEEKS LATER (2007, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 99 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC I was about 14 years old when I finally stopped going down to the newsstand to pick up my weekly batch of superhero comics, and aside from a few exceptions for work by Frank Miller or Alan Moore, I’ve never looked back. I’m told there is still some imaginative writing still going on in comics, and I’m not saying my fantasies today are any more mature, but the dream […]
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The Case Of The Vanished Owner, The Silent V.P. & The Newspaper That Got Scooped On Its Own Sale, Possibly
As you may well have heard by now, the following item appeared in Michael Klein’s Inqlings column in this Sunday’s Inquirer: The Philadelphia Weekly is on the market, according to publishing sources around town. I hear that the asking price for the freebie formerly known as the Welcomat is north of $25 million and that Review Publishing LP has signed confidentiality statements with prospects. It’s not clear whether other Review papers — the Atlantic City Weekly and the South Philly Review and the Southwest Philadelphia Review — are involved. Neither publisher Anthony A. Clifton [NOT pictured], who’s owned the paper […]
TIERNEY’S LIST: Inky Diaspora Begins
Now that the Company and the Guild have called off their game of chicken, it’s time for the Last Free Lunch and, unfortunately, shit sandwiches are all that’s left in the picnic basket. As had been made clear all along, strike or no strike, there will be layoffs. The exact number remains an elusive quantity, morphing in unforeseeable ways with each new staff departure and rumored departure (BIG NEWS afoot on this front, more later today), from as low as 82 to as high as 150. And pink slips are expected to be dispensed just in time for Christmas. “Anybody […]