Two Geeks Enter, One Geek Leaves
John Hodgman and Patton Oswalt face off in an epic geek-off for WFMU. Bester’ed, Bova’ed– two geeks enter, one geek leaves.
Camera Obscura
A young woman releases demons and then has to trap them up again with her grandfather’s camera in the webseries, Camera Obscura. The trailer looks promising.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
LEGO Bladerunner. LEGO lightsaber duel. (thanks, edie!)
Symbol
Symbol. It’s a metaphysical, lucha-loving film by Hitoshi Matsumoto. It’s especially funny if you’ve seen art films with a someone sitting in a plain white room.
Kathryn Bigelow Retrospective
Kathryn Bigelow won a best directing Oscar for The Hurt Locker. Time for a retrospective. Here’s the trailer for Near Dark and some clips. Point Break (i.e. Keeanu Reeves best movie). Jamie Lee Curtis in the cop thriller, Blue Steel. The premillennial tension of Strange Days. The Pirelli […]
Milestone!
So much Milestone going on! Milestone creator Dwayne McDuffie talks with The Atlantic about “reinventing personal mythologies, pop-cultural representations of race and an investigation of what shapes our moral frameworks” and how much he likes writing romance. Meanwhile, Evan Narcisse shares his memories of Milestone Comics–with pictures.
The Cultural Gutter 