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You might think it would be strange to see a mega-budget Noah Baumbach movie complete with CGI explosions, a Spielbergian kind of holy terror, and even one sadistically drawn-out jump-scare dream sequence, but the oddest thing about “White Noise” is its persistent sense of déjà vu. Not just the déjà vu of watching such a faithful adaptation of any Great American Novel — although there’s plenty of that — but also the déjà vu that’s supposedly caused by exposure to the Airborne Toxic Event at the center of Don DeLillo’s 1985 book, a prescient and enduringly tender Polaroid of our late capitalist society in which life has become indistinguishable from its own imitation, and death has become a thing that only happens to other people.

Fittingly, if not always to its credit, Baumbach’s film is split between seeming brand-new and all too familiar at the same time; , his “White...

Dreams and disputations about “modernization” vs. “the land,” of what free labor did and could entail, were profuse in mid-1930s America. Alive in the minds and actions of the displaced worker and cloistered idealist alike. Director King Vidor had long been using moving images to think along the same lines, but in 1934 these ideas collided with real world events, and his own aspirations for independence within his trade, and produced a sui generis film. Born as a reaction to the widespread suffering of the Great Depression, and from reading a Reader’s Digest article advocating for co-operative farming as a solution to unemployment, Our Daily Bread was developed by Vidor and his then wife and close-collaborator Florence Hill, as a semi-sequel to his 1928 film The Crowd, which followed the tribulations of an ambitious “everyman.” Like The Crowd, Our Daily Bread features the Sims couple, John and Mary, this time...

Vidor Retrospective is a Hot Alternate Reality at Berlin 70 — by Alex DeleonWith the pickings slim this year in the Competition section, and not much better in the other main sidebars, the nearly complete King Vidor retrospective covering some 33 films from the magnificent silent war saga ‘The Big Parade’, 1925, to ‘War and Peace’, 1956. Vidor’s career spanned some four decades and is a canny choice for a solid retrospective at Berlin 70. All films are in the category “The don’t make ’em like this anymore” and are nearly all daily sellouts.

Nota Bene: King Vidor is Not to be confused with another Vidor in Hollywood, the Hungarian born director Charles (Károly) Vidor,. Vidor is a fairly common Hungarian surname. King Vidor was the son of a 19th-century Hungarian immigrant who settled in Texas.

The King Vidor retrospective is so rich in new discoveries that it is practically a festival within the festival on its own.

The Sundance Institute is including a touch of Cannes this week as the likes of Pippa Bianco (her short Share was the 2015 winner of Cannes Cinefondation), Alistair Banks Griffin (Two Gates of Sleep premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010), and the Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza tandem (from Critics’ Week Grand Prize in 2013 for Salvo) are among the dozen selected projects for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab. The immersive, five-day writers’ workshop takes place just prior to the festival at the Sundance Resort in Utah, January 15-20. Look for several of these projects to one day break into not only Sundance, but other major film fests. Here are the selected people & projects:

The projects and fellows selected for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab are:

Bull (U.S.A.) / Annie Silverstein (Co-writer/Director) and Johnny McAllister (Co-writer)

In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor,...

Elizabeth Keen might be single and ready to mingle, but let's not forget that she's actually married to Washington D.C.'s resident deranged murderer, Tom Keen -- aka our second-favorite character on "The Blacklist" other than Raymond Reddington's fedora. Last time we checked on Tom, he was secretly in cahoots with Red, and this week he's back for even more iffiness. In other words, your prayers have been answered. But what does Tom want? Read on.

Reddington Gets Himself Kidnapped, Liz Flies To His Rescue Apparently there's a creepy family known as the Kings lurking around the USofA, and they consist of a geriatric old man named Earl and his two sons, Tyler and Francis. These American royals (not to be confused with actual American royals, Kim and Kanye West) spend their time hosting covert auctions where anything from paintings to humans are sold, and their latest acquisition is Reddington's friend,...

Now that we're done pretending to understand football, we can get to the most important part of Superbowl Sunday: "The Blacklist's" premiere. Last time we checked on everyone's favorite criminal, Raymond "Red" Reddington, he was busy wearing a fedora, dealing with the aftermath of Alan Fitch's death, comforting Lizzy (who's basically having an emotional breakdown), and secretly meeting with Tom. That's Tom Keen, as in Lizzy's estranged husband who happens to be a contract killer. Let's just say there a lot of things happening in Washington D.C., including Ron Perlman changing out of his Hell Boy costume and wrecking havoc on the city. Which brings us to our recap.

Raymond Is Captured, Forms Cunning Plan While Fedora-less

Here's the bad news: hot off the heels of losing Fitch's protection, Red is arrested by the CIA and set to a detention facility / "slaughter house for spies" called The Factory,...

Welcome to the Spoiler Room, a safe place for spoiler addicts to come on a weekly basis to learn what’s coming next on their favorite shows—and, hopefully, get a few of their own questions answered. If you want scoop on a specific show, send your questions to spoilerroom@ew.com. I’m jealous you were on the Scandal set. Can you offer up any juicy scoop? — Jen My visit to the set happened to coincide with the cast coming out of the table read for the midseason finale. Plenty of familiar faces will make an appearance in it,...

Welcome to the Spoiler Room, a safe place for spoiler addicts to come on a weekly basis to learn what’s coming next on their favorite shows and, hopefully, get a few of their own questions answered. If you want scoop on a specific show, send your questions to spoilerroom@ew.com. Now that Maggie knows the truth about Richard, how awkward will it get at the hospital on Grey’s Anatomy? — Jillian Well, she didn’t really give Richard a chance to explain his side of things on Thursday—and it sounds like she won’t provide him that opportunity anytime soon.

For the first time since it was established in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is open to authors from outside the British Commonwealth. And it shows, with only one author on the list of 13 coming from a Commonwealth nation. (That would be Australia's Richard Flanagan.) Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in April, was nowhere to be found. Joshua Ferris, U.S.To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Siri Hustvedt, U.S.The Blazing World Richard Powers, U.S. Orfeo Karen Joy Fowler, U.S.We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Richard Flanagan, AustraliaThe Narrow Road to the Deep North Howard Jacobson, Great BritainJ Neel Mukherjee, Great BritainThe Lives of Others Paul Kingsnorth, Great BritainThe Wake David Mitchell, Great Britain The Bone Clocks David Nicholls, Great BritainUs Ali Smith, Great BritainHow to Be Both Joseph O'Neill, Ireland (but lives in the U.S.)The Dog Niall Williams,...

Mondays will be a barren wasteland without The Blacklist to fill them. The series was NBC’s breakout drama this year, earning it the prime after-Superbowl slot next winter. With an average of 14.8 million viewers, The Blacklist ranks fourth among scripted series overall and second in broadcast dramas for the young adults category.

The show’s whip-smart dialogue and golden ratio of satisfying answers to suspenseful questions make a solid structure to support its cast of characters. Naturally, James Spader, as the criminal mastermind-turned-fbi-informant Red Reddington is the shining center of this series. But its other regulars can all hold...

Blacklisters, tonight is the night. The season finale is upon us. Red Reddington is in custody. Liz Keen is as confused as she’s ever been. Tom Keen is armed and dangerous (and possibly infected with something?) Agent Ressler is on hand to throw some muscle behind Liz’s wild ideas. And dear Dembe with his deadpan humor is surely plotting Red’s escape. Lastly, there’s Berlin–man, woman, masked crusader?

But the big question that has been hanging over the series is, who is Liz Keen’s biological father? Actress Megan Boone told EW that “Liz reveals a...

The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 20: “The Kingmaker”

Written by J. R. Orci & Lukas Reiter

Directed by Karen Gaviola

Airs Monday nights at 10 pm Est on NBC

Last week The Blacklist gave audiences a file folder with evidence to prove Red Reddington was really someone Liz Keen should hate. This week the evidence in that folder is revealed and it, like the episode, is completely underwhelming.

My problem with this show is that it sets wonderful ideas up but fails to pay them off in a timely manner. The show sets up in the pilot that Tom Keen is a bad guy and they don’t pay off that idea until episode 15 or 16 of the season. Another plot thread that has been neglected is the one involving Red’s secret that the government is so afraid of. What is the problem with letting the audience in on what Red’s bargaining chip is?...

The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 19: “The Pavlovich Brothers”

Written by Elizabeth Benjamin

Directed by Paul Edwards

Airs Monday nights at 10 pm Est on NBC

This week the confrontation between the Keen couple finally occurs, and with that comes answers to a long gestating mystery. The Pavlovich Brothers, who kidnapped the daughter of a general in the pilot of the show, make a return to kidnap a woman involved in a chemical weapons project called White Fog. Both plotlines help to remind us how far Lizzie and Red have come in their partnership and also spotlight how much they rely on each other.

The best part of the episode is the interview and subsequent fight that takes place in the Keen home after Tom is brought to Liz by the Pavlovich Brothers. Ryan Eggold, who plays Tom Keen, does a strong job of not only showing the darker side of his character in this episode,...

While The Blacklist fans are still pondering all the details surrounding who Tom Keen really is, we got some dirt on the man who plays him.

When Ryan Eggold stopped by our office, we put him in the hot seat for our Pop Culture Personality Test, where he revealed the thing he remembers most about his crush on Penelope Cruz — that mole on her boob — and the film that terrorized him. Hint: It’s a remake.

Watch Eggold’s ridiculously charming personality test below:

The Blacklist airs Mondays at 10 p.m. Et on NBC.

The epic machinations of Red Reddington have been spinning out of control on The Blacklist and after two brutal weeks off, we finally get a new episode tonight. The question on everyone’s mind is, who is Tom Keen? We now know that the sexy/scary husband of FBI Agent Liz Keen is an undercover spy, but we don’t know who he’s working for, what he wants, or how far he’s willing to go to get it. Entertainment Weekly sat down with Ryan Eggold to get some insight on his mysterious character, what we can look forward to tonight,...

As some of your favorite shows wrap up, it’s also time for those summer shows to begin. This week alone has four premieres, as well as a few finales. And, of course, The Blacklist episode that cannot be missed. Well, not if you want to know who Tom Keen is.

Here’s what your pop culture week looks like:

Sunday 4/20

Devious Maids, 10 p.m., Lifetime

In the season 2 premiere, Valentina is back from Africa, Marisol has a new romance, and we hear there’s also a handsome new bodyguard.

Monday 4/21

The Blacklist, 10 p.m., NBC

Who is Tom Keen?...

"The glasses are coming off." And watch out when they do because people tend to die. That was the lesson Jolene (Rachel Brosnahan), and the viewers, learned in last week's episode of The Blacklist, where Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold), seemingly perfect husband in the first half of the season, trained assassin on a mission in the second, fully revealed his dark side. Cue the collective roar of fans screaming, "Finally!" The reveal has been a slow-burn on the NBC hit drama, but like the viewers, Eggold was happy to finally see Tom's true identity come to light. "I've been looking forward to it for a while," the actor admits to E! News. When we spoke with Eggold back in November,...

The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 16: “Mako Tanida”

Written by John Eisendrath, Patrick Massett, and John Zinman

Directed by Michael Watkins

Airs Mondays at 10pm Et on NBC

A major complaint often lobbed at The Blacklist is its seeming ignorance on its own progressing story and its frustrating attempt to give the audience just enough to keep them coming back for the next week, which irritates its viewers more than it actually intrigues them. Compare that to a show like Lost, a show that habitually denied its audience satisfying answers, was able to get away with that, for the most part, because the characters and the story itself were so fascinating that it almost didn’t matter that there were things no one understood, because those supplemental elements were enough to make up for it. The Blacklist doesn’t have that; it just has James Spader in the lead.

Only in...

I've been noticing a few reviewers and recappers saying that the reveal regarding Tom Keen took too long, that they should have revealed who he was and what he was doing a lot sooner, maybe even as a cliffhanger before the Olympics break. I disagree. I think the slow-burn reveal helped the show's mystique and kept us guessing. Maybe not guessing whether or not there was more to Tom than he let on — I think we all knew there was something else going on with him — but the way it was going to be revealed, and what he was going to do afterward.Tonight, we were introduced to the real Keen. When he finally went into agent mode, and started fighting and shooting and acting tough, he transformed from a guy who looks like he could be a hipster typing a screenplay in a Brooklyn coffee shop to a...

If you’re like me, you’ve gone back and forth on Tom Keen. Is he a good guy, framed by the bad guys for things he never did and would never do, an innocent being used by evil forces to get to Liz and the FBI? Or is he a bad guy himself, lying to his wife and the FBI and up to no good? Tonight we found out the answer.But first, Red is trying to find out what’s going with Jolene Parker, a.k.a. Lucy Brooks, the woman who faked her death and is now pretending to be a teacher to get close to Tom. Red already knows where she is; he wants his investigator (Lance Reddick, Fringe fans!) to find out where she’s been and what she’s been up to. Meanwhile, Tom and Jolene are talking to other teachers about whether Lolita should be allowed in schools,...

"The Blacklist" had a fairly interesting case this week, but the real meat was in the last five minutes.

Case of the Week

Dianne Wiest guest stars as the episode's titular "The Judge," a woman named Ruth Kipling who founded the Amnesty Collective, a group that works with wrongfully-imprisoned inmates. But that's not really what she does. Instead, as the Judge, she gets payback on the prosecutors, judges, cops, etc., who purposely made mistakes or ignored evidence in getting their targets convicted.

She goes old testament on them, imprisoning them in her barn for the length of time their wrongfully-imprisoned counterpart is locked up. This case has a twist -- Assistant Director Cooper and his former prosecutor colleague are taken by the Judge for execution when a former soldier is killed by lethal injection.

Red swoops in to save the day for Cooper when he can show the Judge that...

As your favorite shows slowly start to come back from hiatus, it’s time to say goodbye to others. But don’t worry. Between Sherlock’s season 3 return and the introduction of Wahlburgers, your week is sure to be full of just as many (if not more) hellos as it is goodbyes.

Here’s a look at what’s in store for your pop-culture memories this week:

Sunday 1/19

Sherlock 10 p.m., PBS Masterpiece

Benedict Cumberbatch returns for Sherlock’s season 3 premiere, in which Holmes returns to the living after two years away. And with a “critical” terror alert, things are...

The Blacklist‘s Tom Keen is a mystery — one that Ryan Eggold is as eager as viewers are to solve.

“When I was cast, I knew the general direction that the producers wanted to take Tom,” the actor shares about his question mark of an alter ego, “but that’s probably changed six or seven times since then — and continues to change!”

Fortunately, Eggold is privy toa handful of the hit NBC thriller’s impending plot twists, including an interesting new “triangle” forming among Tom, Liz and Red, as well as the identity of that creepy, apple-ingesting surveillance man.

Eggold...

Be wary, viewers of The Blacklist, and watch out for The Stewmaker tonight.

The NBC drama, which recently was picked up for a full season of 22 episodes, airs an especially interesting and intense installment this evening, one that gets to the heart of many pressing questions:

Why does Reddington want to be close to Keen? How is he tied to her past? Could they be related in some way? What is Red’s own agenda with his ‘blacklist?’

TV Fanatic was on The Blacklist set in New York City last week received the following warning/tease from star Megan Boone in regard to The Stewmaker: ""It’s our horror movie.”

Boone explained that the episode begins when Keen “[gets] caught up in this terrible case where the defendant is a mass murderer and kills anybody who has information on him, so he ends up having me kidnapped.”

Enter The Stewmaker, played...

NBC's hot new drama "The Blacklist" premiered on Monday night, and following an hour of primetime twists and turns involving an international criminal mastermind and his youthful FBI handler, one unexpected dark secret was found under her dining room floorboards.

(Spoiler Alert: This interview contains details from the premiere episode of NBC's "The Blacklist.")

After several suggestions by Raymond "Red" Redding (James Spader) that Elizabeth Keen's (Megan Boone) husband might be hiding something, it took a badly stained bloody carpet for her to finally realize her sweet spouse, Tom Keen, is keeping secrets.

Watch It Now: Ryan ...

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The opening scene of The Blacklist premiere was the most mesmerizing of the fall season and the show just continued to build from there. It continued to hold my attention until the very end with the compelling characters, performances and twists.

James Spader is captivating as one of America's Most Wanted criminals, Raymond "Red" Reddington, and Megan Boone holds her own next to him as FBI Agent Elizabeth Keen. She's not going to stand by and be Red's appointed apprentice. At times, she may have learned from him, but it was with the goal of gaining information.

When he didn't cooperate, she took matters into her own hands ... literally by putting a pen into his neck.

Why would a renowned and skilled criminal as Red decide to turn himself in? He claimed that it was because he wanted to help them capture a terrorist, Ranko Zamani, though that was just his way in.

A master class criminal walks right in the front doors of the FBI and turns himself in. In a rare twist of self-interested altruism, Red Reddington (James Spader) is offering up himself and his expertise to assist the FBI in tracking down the world’s most notorious criminals — the ones they did not even know existed. The one catch: Red will only work with one woman, a new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Perhaps obsessed, perhaps curious, perhaps owing some unknown duty to her, Red is adamant about working with Liz Keen, and only her. Fortunately, the FBI is not about to ignore such a rare gift when it lands on their doorstep. Whether Red has some sort of secret agenda of his own in which the FBI are merely pawns in his global game remains to be seen. But with that one stipulation easily acquiesced, the game is afoot.

Randolph Scott Westerns, comedies, war dramas: TCM schedule on August 19, 2013 See previous post: “Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages — And ‘Expect the Biographical Worst.’” 3:00 Am Badman’S Territory (1946). Director: Tim Whelan. Cast: Randolph Scott, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ann Richards. Bw-98 mins. 4:45 Am Trail Street (1947). Director: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys. Bw-84 mins. 6:15 Am Return Of The Badmen (1948). Director: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Jacqueline White, Steve Brodie, Tom Keene aka Richard Powers, Robert Bray, Lex Barker, Walter Reed, Michael Harvey, Dean White, Robert Armstrong, Tom Tyler, Lew Harvey, Gary Gray, Walter Baldwin, Minna Gombell, Warren Jackson, Robert Clarke, Jason Robards Sr., Ernie Adams, Lane Chandler, Dan Foster, John Hamilton, Kenneth MacDonald, Donald Kerr, Ida Moore, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Harry Shannon, Charles Stevens. Bw-90 mins. 8:00 Am Riding Shotgun (1954). Director: André De Toth. Cast: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris,...

George R.R. Martin seems to have had a good Christmas.

It's been a mixed time of year for him over the past few years. In 2010, the Song of Ice and Fire author spent Christmas Day in hospital with an e-coli infection. In 2011, USA Today named him author of the year.

This year, he was named author of the second best fantasy novel of the 20th Century by Locus magazine.

And perhaps most importantly, he says that he's pleased with what he received from Father Christmas.

Here's what he wrote on his blog:

Santa was very, very good to me. Books, turtles, jewelry, a coffeemaker (I mainline the stuff), monster movies, a tiny miniature of myself, a Richard Powers original, a dragon for my garden... what more can a boy want? (Aside from his lost youth, and a year's worth of 50 hour days to get more done).

We wish someone would get him a new pen,...

George R.R. Martin seems to have had a good Christmas.

It's been a mixed time of year for him over the past few years. In 2010, the Song of Ice and Fire author spent Christmas Day in hospital with an e-coli infection. In 2011, USA Today named him author of the year.

This year, he was named author of the second best fantasy novel of the 20th Century by Locus magazine.

And perhaps most importantly, he says that he's pleased with what he received from Father Christmas.

Here's what he wrote on his blog:

Santa was very, very good to me. Books, turtles, jewelry, a coffeemaker (I mainline the stuff), monster movies, a tiny miniature of myself, a Richard Powers original, a dragon for my garden... what more can a boy want? (Aside from his lost youth, and a year's worth of 50 hour days to get more done).

We wish someone would get him a new pen,...

So much has changed since we last heard from “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” a decade ago.

Barack Obama was a state legislator. Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla. Steve Jobs had just introduced a portable music player called the iPod.

And digital books were a relic from the dot-com bubble.

The 18th edition of the venerable reference work has just been released, the first for the electronic age and a chance to take in some of the new faces, events and catchphrases of the past 10 years. General editor Geoffrey O’Brien says he has expanded upon the trend set by his predecessor,...

Widely regarded as the worst film ever made, the Ed Wood classic Plan 9 from Outer Space is on its way to Blu-ray so you can see all those cardboard sets come to life in glorious 1080p!

Look for the flick starring Bela Lugosi, Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, and Carl Anthony in stores on March 6, 2012 from Legend Films. No word yet on special features if any at all.

"This is it! The most popular Atomic Age cult film of the twentieth century. Winner of two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director of All Time, the immortal Edward D. Wood, Jr.! It's all here, the not-so-special effects, aliens in skating skirts zooming around in string-powered flying saucers to implement the ninth plan of Earth's conquest (the first eight failed) with an army of zombies (well, three actually), Vampira, Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi in...

From Farran Nehme comes word of the passing of Barbara Kent at the age of 103. Farran's "seen only two pictures starring Barbara Kent," one being "the 1933 shoestring Oliver Twist, with Kent as Rose. The other is Flesh and the Devil, in which Kent had the unenviable task of the being the forsaken lover to Garbo's lascivious temptress. Still, it's the silent Flesh and the Devil that left a far stronger impression. Sound seemed to diminish this diminutive actress, as it did so many others. In pantomime, her tiny body made her even sweeter and more fragile, and it added poignance to her hurt over John Gilbert's betrayal…. The Siren always knew she would most likely live to see every silent-film artist depart the planet before she did. But the Siren still wishes she'd gotten the chance to tell Kent, or any of the other artists that Kevin Brownlow has spent a lifetime celebrating,...

America needs to hit bottom “like an addict” to rebound from its economic woes, according to Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Big Short and other books that have been optioned for movies.

“At every level of the society we have been willing to basically sacrifice our long term interests for short term interests,” Lewis told Bloomberg TV’s Tom Keene in an interview Wednesday. “It’s not sustainable and I think what happens is we have to hit bottom first, like an addict.”

And where is the bottom, according to Lewis, the darling of Wall Street traders, politicians and writers alike?

“It’s some level of unemployment, slow growth, what we’re going through now and people say ‘enough already I want the truth and I want our lives to be organized differently,’” Lewis said in the interview.

Lewis explored Americans’ relationship with debt through the prism of California...

The Ed Wood Box I Had and lost this wonder and then went and got it again because its just a box of terrible terribly good films! Ed Wood, the master of B movies who's films range from cross-dressers to ghouls. For any body who likes the classics, B-movies, or Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Lyle Talbot then this is a must have. The box set does not include all of ed woods films but 6 of his most well known films wh…...

Photographed by Jennifer Graylock.Last night the UCLA Anderson School of Management presented the 2010 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism—established in 1957 to honor journalists who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance, and the economy. At the ceremony, held at Capitale—in the old Bowery Bank building—emcee Tyler Mathisen and Bloomberg’s Tom Keene presented Vanity Fair with two wins.

Dark Horse Comics' "Doctor Solar: Man Of The Atom", Volume #1, available October 13, written by Paul S. Newman and illustrated by Bob Fujitani, Frank Bolle, Richard Powers, collects issues #1-#7 of the original Gold Key Comics 1960's comic-book series "Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom", including all original series covers:

"...When industrial sabotage fouls up an experiment in atomic energy, nuclear physicist 'Doctor Phillip Solar' survives the accident but is forever changed into a living atomic reactor capable of astonishing feats! Now Doctor Solar uses his miraculous, energy-based powers to protect the innocent and to thwart the diabolical machinations of a mysterious supercriminal known only as 'Nuro'..."

The new edition collects "Solar's Secret," "The Remote-Control Traitor," "Vanishing Oceans" and other classic stories from the 1960's.

Click the images to enlarge...

The B Noir festival is a hit! It's always a delight to hear about retrospective programming doing well. There are still people out there interested in and trying out old movies in theaters. Or maybe the San Francisco noir crowd is just that strong. I'd written about "I Wake Up Dreaming" a couple of weeks back (read it here); I have since went and saw some of the movies they're playing.

If you're in the Bay Area and you haven't spared the time, there's good news. The festival was supposed to end this Thursday, but I have just been informed that since it is selling out so well, they've decided to add another week of showings!

The list of extra screenings is at the bottom, but before that, I want to recommend trying to get to this Friday's showing of The Devil Thumbs a Ride, which I managed to catch on the fest's opening night.