“So Why Can’t I See You Kicking His Ass?”
John Kreng finishes the fallacies of why filmmakers make action so hard to see with the punches, kicks and elbow smashes of his thoughts. And you can see the whole thing here. (via ShelfLifeCC)
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.”
If Superheroes were Hipsters
Caldwell Tanner’s vision of superheroes as hipsters. (via Lost At E Minor)
5 Webcomics Created by African-Americans
Blackweb offers a sample of webcomics by African-American creators. Check out: A Pug Named Fender, JOE!, Addanac City, Company Man. (via Jay Potts)
Melodrama All Around
Seems like we’re not the only ones who have noticed a resurgence of melodrama. Chris Vognar writes about melodrama, Black Swan and The Fighter.
Ballerinas Watch Black Swan
The New York Times has a piece on dancers’ reaction to Black Swan. Meanwhile, Jonathan Romney interviews Darren Aronofsky and writes: “There’s much steamy weirdness that you don’t normally associate with ballet fictions: hallucinations, horror, lesbian clinches with doppelgängers.” Which is exactly what I associate with them. I’d […]
Racist Freak Outs!
ZOMG, French Muslim Batman! ZOMG, Idris Elba is a Norse God! (Incidentally, Idris Elba could play every role in most movies and we’d be fine).
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