Jeannette Ng thinks about The Rise of Skywalker, The Last Jedi and “memorabilia without memory.” “The central plot of Rise concerns Rey’s parentage which was very satisfyingly resolved in The Last Jedi. They were no one in particular, not great heroes nor villains. Along with the rest of […]
So many Royal Shakespeare Company people riff on Hamlet.
Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey has a lovely piece on The Last Jedi. “The mythic cliffhanger of The Force Awakens is what I needed in 2015 at the end of a brutal year. The grumpy, startling conclusion of that cliffhanger is what I needed in 2017. Stories, […]
The Internet Archive has Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials, and you can look at it here!
Alex Pappademas writes about “The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”: “The reason all this should worry you, even if you have zero investment in superhero movies or their relative position vis-a-vis film culture as a whole, is that the response to Scorsese is a populist […]
Open Culture has some of Lovecraft’s illustrations of his hideous creations. View them at risk to your sanity here.
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