What developed in the late ’30s and throughout the 1940s was a curious variety of folklore that attempted to inform its younger readers about what was transpiring in the world around them. With a war in Europe looming, comic books had a new role to play. Coupled with a growing interest in science (exemplified in… Continue reading Glass
Tag: M. Night Shyamalan
Split
Not since I saw William Shatner play Captain Kirk possessed by Dr. Janet Lester, a woman, have I seen any actor able to use facial tics and slight vocal lilting to change personalities so fluidly and with ease. James McAvoy is Kevin, a security guard besieged by dissociative identity disorder whose 23 personalities abduct three young… Continue reading Split