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Malik Roberts
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Cartoonist. Illustrator. Activist. Historian. Malcontent. Sigma male.
Washington-born and Atlanta-based autistic savant. 🇮🇱🇺🇦
“Ben-Hur”, which opened on Broadway sixty-five years ago this holiday season, is as spellbinding as any religious epic film ever produced despite its bloatedness, universally acclaimed by audiences and critics as an ultramodern leap in filmmaking.

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A ★★★★½ review of Ben-Hur (1959)
“Ben-Hur”, which opened on Broadway sixty-five years ago this holiday season, is as spellbinding as any religious epic film ever produced despite its bloatedness. A modernized update of the 1925 film ...
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December 3, 2024 at 1:32 AM
“Wicked” is ten-toes-down the best movie of the year, the kind of bombastic escapist fantasy that Hollywood very seldom produces anymore, ironically the very kind of picture that defined Hollywood during its long-lost heyday.

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A ★★★★★ review of Wicked (2024)
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November 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
"Whoville's Darkest Night", one of the nearly four dozen paintings I did for the duration of the pandemic.

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November 29, 2024 at 9:33 PM
“Peace on Earth”… a meticulously drawn yet harrowing depiction of unexplained and seemingly endless war… is M-G-M’s first true animated masterpiece, and sadly remains a parable of humanity’s greatest folly: destruction.

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A ★★★★★ review of Peace on Earth (1939)
Although 1939 is universally considered the apex of the Hollywood studio system, the animated cartoon was relatively late to take shape as a legitimate art form. By all accounts, it was Louis B. Mayer...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:43 AM