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John Linton Roberson (born in Kingstree, South Carolina, January 22, 1969), also known as JLRoberson, is an illustrator, cartoonist and writer, currently based in Seattle, Washington.

An alumnus of DePaul University, Roberson self-published the quarterly anthology

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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Braveheart: 1 of 7

Before I begin: A bias. I hate Mel Gibson. The one time I ever liked his work was his surprisingly good(because it was visceral) portrayal of Hamlet(in an otherwise badly truncated & maimed version). Beyond that, I think he's a self-obsessed, sexist, homophobic mindless macho goon who so OBVIOUSLY wants to be the next John W...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Frailty: 1 of 4

Note: This review contains a lot of spoilers. This is a movie that deserves to be spoiled, so satisfied it appears to be with its clever twist ending. If you actually want to waste your time finding out for yourself, don't read this review. For everyone else: I sat through it so you don't have to, and I intend to ruin it and...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Passion of the Christ: 6 of 13

JESUS CHRIST POSE: Mel Gibson's "the Passion of the Christ" Gotta tell ya, it really looks like it must be hell being Mel. Or will be when he has to answer to his maker for this movie. I say this after having watched in detail the Passion of the Gibson, this thing that's caused so very much controversy, as most Jesus films d...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Salo: 1 of 2

Pier Paolo Pasolini died, as some directors real and fictional(Kubrick-EYES WIDE SHUT, Richard Mulligan in SOB, and I'm still waiting for it to happen to Michael Winterbottom for 9 SONGS, which was awful) are prone to do, after having done the Grand High Art Porno Epic, an odd ambition but one held by many directors-to make ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Patriot: 1 of 2

Mel Gibson is not known for his subtlety, nor imagination in parts he chooses. Apart, perhaps, from the LETHAL WEAPON films, each one is the same; MAD MAX is BRAVEHEART is RANSOM. But this film is so vaporous and boilerplate it makes the others look like sparkling epiphanies of originality. Are there any true screenwriters l...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Apocalypse Now Redux: 1 of 2

Before we start: this is not a review of APOCALYPSE NOW, but merely that which has been added to it. That being understood-one has to wonder at the obsessive-compulsive tinkering upon which certain filmmakers seem to spend all their time these days. Sometimes there are terrible results, like everything George Lucas touches. ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Human Stain: 1 of 2

I very much like Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins, and Gary Sinise for that matter. And all do a great job as they always do, though Kidman, thanks to Robert Benton not knowing when to cut when she's on camera, crosses the line for the first time from "tragic" to "self-pitying"(I'm thinking of the heavy-handedly symbolic sc...
Arts & Humanities > Making Art Advice to younger cartoonists: 1 of 1

Last week, a young cartoonist named Stephanie wrote me and, in a perhaps mistaken assumption I know what I’m doing, asked some questions about cartooning, which I tried to answer as best I could from my own perspective and experience. Which I’m not sure was so great, but she seemed to find a lot of it useful, so ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Baby of Macon: 1 of 1

In this day and age, I never fail to be surprised at what a repressed culture we still have, despite all our pretensions to the contrary. It may seem that expressions of the extreme are mind-numbingly common in our culture, but look again; in all the sex, violence and depravity we see in our media, is there any attempt, thro...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: O Lucky Man (1973): 1 of 1

One of the strangest moments in my film-viewing life was the day I found out Lindsay Anderson directed, of all things, WHALES OF AUGUST. Not that it's a bad film, but it's a bit like finding a Jane Austen novel was in fact written by Jonathan Swift. Anderson is the greatest film satirist of all time, embodying the proper use...