otter.covblogs.com - 9/23/2009
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The wife and I spent the last two weeks living in Illinois with her grandmother and a bunch of her extended family. This was an unplanned trip, as we happened to be in Kentucky to visit my old college friends, and decided that a quick jaunt to central Illinois wouldn't take that long. And then ...
Superhero Fan Film Contest Returns To Metropolis!
fancinematoday.com 5/19/2009 — A mere 10 years ago, DC Comics famously shut down the first major Superman fan film on the internet, as recounted in Homemade Hollywood . These days, not only does DC approve of fan productions , so does the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce.
Every year, the town of Metropolis, IL holds its ...
Original Metropolis Lives On In Berlin [Metropolis]
io9.com 27 days ago — After more than eight decades, Fritz Lang 's original cut of his classic movie Metropolis will be seen for the first time at next year's Berlin Film Festival , including 30 minutes of almost-unseen footage. Lang's original cut had almost become an ...
Superman Fan Film Wins Award and $300
fancinematoday.com 6/19/2009 — The annual Superman Celebration took place in Metropolis, IL on June 13-14; for the second year running, a superhero fan film contest was held as part of the festivities. Filmmaker George Doerr nabbed the grand prize this time out, along with a cool $300, for his fan film, Villains Day Off. ...
Berlinale to show uncut 'Metropolis'
variety.com 27 days ago — Festival to screen reconstructed original print BERLIN -- The Berlin Film Festival will screen Fritz Lang's original cut of "Metropolis," which was feared lost but discovered in an Argentine museum last year, at a gala ceremony on Feb. 10, the ...
Fantastic Metropolis
fantasticmetropolis.com 24 days ago — Sometimes it’s tears in a shopping mall. Sometimes it’s solemn watching while others play. Sometimes it’s calling for a runaway puppy. This time it’s the skitter of gravel under bicycle wheels, long after dark. This time. US 30 unrolled under their ...
DC Universe Online: First Look
tor.com 2/19/2009 — While at New York ComicCon, I got to check out the demo of Sony Entertainment’s upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online game, DC Universe Online . Based on the DC Comics Universe, home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (among many others), DCUO ...
The Bioluminescent Metropolis
bldgblog.blogspot.com 8/21/2009 — [Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur , courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn . At one point, ...
Top Of The Pile: Superman #685
heropress.net 3/1/2009 — This is it! The big one! Superman issue 685 is when he takes the decision to leave Earth - seemingly severing his ties with Ma Kent and Lois - to go and live on New Krypton ( where the inhabitants of the former bottled city of Kandor have relocated ). But before this happens, he has to have a ...
Dear Superman
darkfantasy.org 6/4/2009 — This essay originally appeared in Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies, edited by L. Timmel DuChamp and published by Aqueduct Press in 2006.
Dear Superman,
I hope this letter reaches you. I wasn’t sure where to send it. There’s no address for your Fortress of Solitude, and ...
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