Tony Jaa Found! Full of News!
Muay Thai and now mixed martial arts machine Tony Jaa is still found and still working on Ong-Bak 2. He also has a sword and a Khmer palace and an interview up at his official site. (via Kaiju Shakedown).
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
Past, Present and Retro-Future Collide–in 3-D!
A 1953 3-D comic online? My brain doesn’t have the power to contain the glory of past, present and retro-future colliding in Brain Power!
JJ Sonny Chiba, Ph.D.
Kyoto University of Art and Design’s newest teacher is none other than JJ Sonny Chiba. Prof. Chiba will be teaching film acting and swordfighting. And I bet ninjitsu, but secretly. (via Kaiju Shakedown)
DC Nixes Minx
No more Plain Janes from DC. It’s nixing Minx, it’s line directed at girls. Shannon Smith breaks it down in bookstore terms. When Fangirls Attack has more.
Squeeze Play
Romance and sports don’t mix. That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway. It’s one of those weird rules, hidden and unarticulated, that seem to underly any given genre. It’s a tenet that gets passed down to new writers, not as gospel so much as in the form of a mild […]
Giant Razorbacks, “Reluctant Superstuds” and Jimmy Wang Yu
Let your cursor drift to the right and all the way down for Ozploitation trailer goodness like a giant razorback, a postapocalyptic drive-in, erection jokes as well as Donald Pleasance, George Lazenby and Jimmy Wang Yu at Flyp magazine’s look at Not Quite Hollywood.
The Cultural Gutter 