“The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2019”
As SyFy Wire, Kristy Puchko shares the 10 Best Horror Movies of 2019 and you can tell it’s a legit list because it includes Tigers Are Not Afraid and One Cut Of The Dead.
“The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”
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 […]
“H. P. Lovecraft’s Monster Drawings”
Open Culture has some of Lovecraft’s illustrations of his hideous creations. View them at risk to your sanity here.
“When Empathy comes from the Last Place You’d Expect.”
At Polygon, Eirik Gumeny writes about Red Dead Redemption 2 and life with a terminal illness. “I actually learned to avoid characters I might relate to when I was growing up with cystic fibrosis, as they never seemed to exist as people. They were instead used as props, […]
“Mr. Vampire: The Definitive Jiangshi Move”
At Sup China, Tristan Shaw looks at the history of jiangshi / gyonshi / hopping vampire / “stiff corpse” moves from 1936 on and focusing on the iconic Hong Kong movie, Mr. Vampire (1985).
Interview with John Waters
The BFI has an interview with the Pope of Trash, John Waters! “There’s nothing that’s ‘good bad taste’, it’s all just ‘bad bad taste’. It’s almost not worth being remarked on. I think it’s hard for anything to be so bad it’s good anymore. My films were made […]
