well here to talk more about scott roxboro from our culture desk scott i know that in when you're not here in the studio you're wearing a superman costume or spider-man call you got actually spider-man underwear all right so tell the truth who's your favorite your favorite marvel superhero it would be actually spider bad i mean that's probably stanley's famous character but it definitely had a huge influence on me when i was younger and still does i mean i don't know what is about a i know underpaid underappreciated journalist. superhero that really really speaks to me but you know i love i love that character and it was one of the first comic books i had read all these other different books superglue superman batman and so on but the stanley ones and particular spider-man were the first that i read that were about a teenager a young guy and we're funny i mean the thing that's great about spider-man character particular he's constantly wisecracking he never seems to take himself seriously and that really was so different for complex at that time and i think really set a new path that

film critic scott roxboro believes. idea could even mark the birth of a new genre. computer animation so dominates the field now we've gotten used to seeing it to such a degree that we've forgotten what paint looks like almost. and that pack our senses really is really revolutionary i think and i hope really it all inspire a new generation of filmmakers to embrace this this really new medium which is of course the oldest media. of visual representation. since it premiered in twenty seventeen the movie has been a major success receiving numerous international awards it was even nominated for an oscar in the best animated feature category. it was also a lot for me as a person because very you know it's a first film and you. push film that's been ever. there's no money man in a new mission industry and until took on the took out both paul and general problem very. thorough took o.b.l. has painted a pioneering portrait of vincent and called her groundbreaking bio epic is at once immersive and if not. well all this week we've been asking you to tell us which woman has re

is film critic scott roxboro joins us for more on the story scott what was behind the magic your how did he make his character so memorable yeah still did which is really unique in complex the time half the number one hundred fifty is coming just coming just before comic books were largely censored and they became quite bland and and formulaic and what stanley did was he breaks that lee brought the real world into comic books he his characters although they had superpowers were based in the real world spider. it was my absolute favorite stanley creation was a lived in new york he had an ordinary job had problems with his girlfriend problems of the family he was always out of money. the characters that stanley created the superheroes the family created were very much based in the real world and i think that made them very very relatable the other thing that he did which was a really unique and huge impact was he brought real world politics real world issues into his his comics some most famously with black panther which was the first african-american superhero and was inspired by the

today we are celebrating seventy five years of sequins satin and spandex and appropriately scott roxboro from our culture desk is here to tell us what exactly he is talking about you know where i am it's obvious that i actually talk even if we get a shot of the of our wonderful video wall here i'm talking about this holiday on ice yeah i mean i mean this is amazing art form that takes incredibly talented athletes and artists and dresses them up like drag queens and sends them off over frozen water for our entertainment. turns seventy five this year the diamond anniversary and of course this art form was created as you'd expect in the united states back in one thousand nine hundred forty three i think we have some archive footage of just how it looked back then. it hold the ice was actually started by an engineer emery gilbert who thought up the idea in order to sell his new invention the portable eyestrain but there's just something about skaters and show tunes and sequins that struck a chord it's now the most successful ice show in the world it sold some three hundred twenty nine millio