The United Monster Talent Agency
Movietone News: The United Monster Talent Agency helps bring monsters to a screen near you!
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
Thai Ghosts
Learn to recognize Thai ghosts. What you learn here could save your life. Or at least avoid becoming enslaved to a Phi Phrai. (Thanks, Keith!)
What’s Happened to Superman?
At his superb blog, Too Busy Thinking About My Comics, Colin Smith wonders, what’s happened to Superman? “For I can’t help believing that Clark isn’t walking across America to find either it or himself, but to avoid finding himself. Or to put it another way; he isn’t walking […]
61 Pages of Connie Willis
61 pages from Connie Willis’ new book, Blackout.
Everything That’s Great About Indonesian Movies
From Barry Prima and H. Djut Djalil to Suzzanna and Hans Jaladara adaptations, 4DK has been examining everything that’s great about Indonesian action movies (mostly from the 1980s) and the ” brain-chemistry-altering pleasures that watching movies [without subtitles] has given me — the very pleasures, in fact, that […]
Waiting for Gorgo?
Do you remember Gorgo? The giant monster that raced up from the oceanic depths and devastated London? The DMOA do.
The Cultural Gutter 