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Book Expo America: Obama Goes Manga, Darwyn Cooke Tackles 'Parker' & Dash Shaw Gets Animated
mtv.com –
2009-06-01
And clockwise, starting from the top-left book, are the following: 1. I happened upon the booth for Joyful Stories Press during my wandering, and had to ask about the manga-style art of "The Obama Story" that I saw on display. ... Full Article
screencap Friday: what the flick? #1
flickfilosopher.com –
2008-01-04
Mel Gibson in Payback or Conspiracy Theory ... I'll go with Payback. =) i say it's from that Viggo Mortinson movie, "Eastern Promises." Bronxbee, it looks like there are not sufficient tattoos on the hands for it to be from ... Full Article
Brian Helgeland is an award-winning screenwriter, earning both an Oscar and a Razzie a few days apart. He made his feature film directorial debut with Payback, starring and produced by Mel Gibson. ... Full Article
Payback - Straight Up: the Directors Cut Posted by El Bicho (elbicho@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 23, 2007
filmschoolrejects.com –
2007-04-23
Brian Helgeland is an award-winning screenwriter, earning both an Oscar and a Razzie a few days apart.He made his feature film directorial debut with Payback , starring and produced by Mel Gibson. ... Full Article
Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. ... Full Article
Payback returns to DVD with Straight Up: The Director's Cut edition
monstersandcritics.com –
2007-03-30
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the release of Payback - Straight Up: The Director's Cut on DVD April 10th for the suggested retail price of $19.99. ... Full Article
Color and Killing in a Tale of ViolencePayback is (excuse the pun) a throwback to the gritty crime movies of the 1970s such as the Dirty Harry series and The French Connection. ... Full Article
Yet it's new-fashioned, too.Depressed and gritty yet faintly surreal and whimsical, this loose remake of the 1967 Lee Marvin film ``Point Blank'' exists in its own crazy world. ... Full Article
Movies can go slumming just as easily as people. Case in point: Payback , an appealingly/ appallingly nasty bit of work from director- cowriter Brian Helgeland and star Mel Gibson that yanks the viewer back into the grungy world of... ... Full Article
At home in a crowd
salon.com –
1999-03-15
BY SARAH VOWELL | I used to think audiences were appreciative collections of fellow citizens. These days, I see them as those random monsters that have been showing up on recent episodes of "The X-Files": unpredictable, living, breathing organisms that... ... Full Article