A six-part collection of stories by graphic artists Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciulio, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire is a gratifying eyeful for its variety of black-and-white animation styles. The stories range from the intense to the not-so-great, but at the heights, Burns’ “Alien”-like science-fiction fable that also manages to suggest Kakfa’s “Metamorphosis.” “Atmospheric” is an understatement. (Ray Pride)
Fear, Factored: How Cinematic Is DeLillo's Dread? The elder novelist has spun plain expressions blasted and swirled alongside righteous rococo. His characters spend time in monotone. Their habits cannot be broken, will not be smashed, the wild integrity of path and pattern. Habit. When the habit is broken, fear fetches up.
Achy Quaking Heart: The Fear Of Dear Evan Hansen “Dear Evan Hansen” is a mood and a sensation that is precise and sloppy, wholly alarming, capturing the fact, the act of dissociation as daily reactivity.
