13: Game of Death
A down on his luck salesman gets a mysterious phone call promising him 100 million baht if he undertakes 13 tasks that go increasingly bad. No fun to live, but really good as a film.
A Graph about a Book
Writer Hines examines his writing process and comes up with The Stages of Book Love – I like where the level where the process ends (Hines returns to the joke and vows to actually read Twilight later).
Whoa, Inflammatory Rhetoric on the Internet about Nerdy Topics…
Animator Mark Mayerson takes a stab at the recent big business deal: “Disney and Marvel: Two Creative Failures.”
Grr, Argh, Trailer Round-up
Grr, argh! Here’s a little undead creatures trailer round-up from the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program: Daybreakers, Survival of the Dead and [Rec]2. Grr, argh!
RIP, Shing Fui-On
Hong Kong star Shing Fui-On has died of cancer. Most Gutter readers likely remember him as the psychotic Triad head in John Woo’s The Killer. Here’s a clip from his leading role in The Blue Jean Monster. (And speaking Hakka with Chow Yun-Fat).
Confessions of the B-Masters Cabal
The B-masters confess movies they haven’t seen. “My viewing of Zombie Lake was one of those events that lead you to question everything in your life that has lead up to it. I wouldn’t necessarily say that it was a “where did I go wrong” moment, because many […]
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