Category: Notes

The Union Forever

It’s card-carrying union members vs. scabs in Crane Wars: “You make your towers, as quickly as you can, topping them off with a top part to finish them. Alternatively, lob buildings or trucks at the scabs at work across the street. Or both.”

Suzuki Seijun’s Japanese Noir

Todd at 4DK has decided to “throw some verbiage” in Suzuki Seijun’s direction with reviews of and stills from Underworld Beauty and the best titled film ever, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!  I love it when Todd throws words around.

Re-Taking Pelham 1 2 3

Linda Holmes and Andrew O’Hehir see some things in John Travolta’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 villain: “the lamentably noisy bad guy” replacing a more chilling, bureaucratic evil and a far more awesome possible movie:  “Freddie Mercury …. starring in some cracked Tony Scott movie where […]

No. 6, Laid Out

Number Six will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered, but in the 1970s, he was roughed, laid out, sketched, penciled, inked, scanned and collected.  Scans of Jack Kirby’s The Prisoner at the Madness. (TwoMorrows has some analysis).

Smart Bitches, Trashy Radio

Smart Bitches Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell talk man-titty vs. man-boobs, Romance masculinity and their favorite bad euphemisms, but don’t too much into the heroine’s “magic hoo-hoo” with Australian comedian and radio host, Alan Brough. Hilarity ensues!  (We can’t recommend the Smart Bitches, Trashy Novels site enough, whether […]