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...Beef, a darkly comic tale of Korean-American rage, became a hit on Netflix....
...Lars Wingefors’ 13-year-old self would approve of his recent purchase: Dark Horse Media, one of the biggest independent comic studios in the world and home to iconic titles including Hellboy and Sin City...
...And it’s not just about the horses: the “village” takes over the IFEMA exhibition complex, with fashion, food, and jewellery stands and VIP hospitality experiences....
...Although sombre, most of the works are inventive, unexpected, occasionally even displaying comic energy....
...“Eggy Party was a dark horse,” said Chenyu Cui, a gaming analyst at consultancy Omdia. “NetEase did not put much market effort into it, and no one was expecting it to do this well,” she added....
...The Times said Scott Thomas “exhibits no gift for comic timing, but simply raises her voice and hopes for the best”. It was the worst review of her career....
...And comic books became the amphetamine of the movie business, not least through Warners’ own superhero tales....
...Nathan Goodman delivers a splendid comic turn as the flatulent horse in “The Button Thief”. A dark delight. ★★★★☆ sadlerswells.com...
...But as mainFT reported in a mag piece written by some dude earlier this year, some insiders had begun to see Kliatchko as a dark horse to be the next CEO of Bloomberg LP, after some central divisions were...
...horse candidate Kazuo Ueda has upset expectations for the next Bank of Japan governor....
...Since 1991, when Neil Gaiman was first approached about turning his dark fantasy comic book series into a film, there have been at least three separate attempts to get an adaptation off the ground....
...Crotchety but caring is hardly a strenuous brief for him, but he quickly proves to have a natural instinct for comic delivery....
...As a young actor, he turned down the lead role of Del Boy in landmark 1980s British sitcom Only Fools and Horses. (Instead, he took a small recurring part as a villainous police officer.)...
...The gifted Jordan Peele set his expertly divisive Nope on a California horse ranch, but also in the skies above....
...In search of what’s challenging, I find myself in a packed, dark room below Union Hall, a spacious bar in Brooklyn, watching Dylan Adler....
...The comic side of her character was as forthright as her loud peal of laughter....
...[It] is a Trojan horse that puts corporate welfare above the fiscal welfare of our entire state.” Sadly, the flight from California has already started....
...Since writing the Border trilogy — All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998) — which made him famous, his prose has reduced and intensified, like a pot of stock left...
...But happily in the four o’clock our horse romped home at 7-1....
...“It’s fair to say it’s becoming a three-horse race at the front of the pack,” Jason Kilar told the FT....
...Chivalry by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran, Headline Publishing Group £14.99, 80 pages/Dark Horse Comics $19.99, 72 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The true story of Dream Alliance — a no-chance scrapper of a racehorse — has been told already in the 2015 documentary Dark Horse....
...‘Sometimes a dark horse is an interesting horse’ The shorts may have been betting against Novavax — but scientists weren’t....
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...One person familiar with the visit described it as “comic”....
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