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Comic Corner: Two is better than one!

Narrative-wise, Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon is a revelation. This book is funny, compelling, and thoroughly engaging. I loved the characters and the entire mood of the graphic novel, which is somewhere between dark comedy and unexpected drama. The only thing that threw me off was the art style, which I think is too simplistic for the complexity of the plot.

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Full metal jazz-it

If I wrote that Whiplash is a movie about jazz drumming, that brief description wouldn’t be exactly accurate. The plot of first-time director Damien Chazelle’s film centres around a jazz musician who goes to extreme lengths to achieve perfection in his craft. It’s as much a love letter to jazz music as a film can be. Right from the ascending snare beat and the claustrophobic, shadow-drenched shot that introduces the film, Chazelle makes you very aware that this film is definitely not going to be like that one time at band camp.