“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Max: Fury Road!”
Enjoy the trailer for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad Max: Fury Road!”
“We can’t see Star Trek for our very idea of it.”
At Strange Horizons, Erin Horáková writes about popular culture, popular memory, popular forgetting, popular reworking, “receptive drag,” and “Kirk Drift”: “Why can’t we see what’s in front of us? Why can’t we read? Why do we remember green women, molested, when there weren’t any, and the wrong ‘three […]
The Projection Booth watches They Live
“On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we’re giving you a choice: either put on the podcast, or start eating a trash can. Yes, we’re talking about John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) wherein a man with no name — or a name that means nothing — Nada […]
“You’re the first man I’ve ever seen”
At Film School Rejects, Catherine Stratton’s video essay “Fandor presents: Lady Lands” discusses films like Catwomen of the Moon, Fire Maidens of Outer Space and The Queen of Outer Space, in which there are planets of space ladies who seem in charge but are really waiting for earth […]
“Bang the Drum Slowly: Grief in Modern Horror”
At Prowler Needs A Jump, Kerry Fristoe writes about grief in four contemporary horror films, The Babadook, The Invitation, Prevenge, and The Void. “People in films kill for a boatload of reasons. They kill for money, love, sex, power, a black bird, a tanker full of gasoline, a […]
Japan’s earliest animated films
Watch sixty-four of Japan’s earliest animated films at Japanese Animated Film Classics. Read a little more about the project here: “While digitizing the film archives we created a research team in 2014 to look at ways to preserve and use them. So we selected a wide range of […]
The Cultural Gutter 