Tim Hayes

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Documentaries about AI are their own Portents Industrial Complex by now and Tribeca's AI: Probably Nothing To Worry About is another one.

The Sundance Film Festival showed Everybody to Kenmure Street.

The annual colossal round-up of notable comics and related business from contributors to The Comics Journal, including a handful of items from me.

Films made on the assumption of non-Republican US government emerge from the pipeline.

For The Comics Journal a read of Megalopolis An Original Graphic Novel by Chris Ryall and Jason Phillips and in some sense or other Francis Ford Coppola, which arrives a year late for any kind of cross-promotion with Megalopolis the movie and also feels l…

In the ton of archive footage from the Afghan War in Bodyguard of Lies are shots of a playground where US Army soldiers have wrapped the children’s slide in barbed wire, but since that perfect visual summary isn’t in the press kit this one of a plane fail…

After Tank Girl more Jamie Hewlett-adjacent graphic capers discussed at The Comics Journal, this time with some actual Hewlett art: a review of the Phoo Action Silver Jubilee book, a big archival brick shepherded into life by the co-author of that 1996 st…

For The Comics Journal a review of some seven-year-old Tank Girl comics that got reissued in a box by Titan in 2024.

Three films watched online from the Sundance Film Festival, where the remote-viewing offer was throttled back to a tasting menu.