Interview with Johnnie To
Johnnie To talks about filmmaking at the 2013 Asian Film Summit in Toronto.
“The Addams Family Secret”
Paul Karasik writes about a painting Charles Addams painted for a beachside hotel bar, which ended up in a university library. “In 1952, Charles Addams, at the height of his skills as a cartoonist, painted a lush, monochromatic mural on canvas for a bar at the Dune Deck, […]
On Horizon Zero Dawn and the Heroism of Aloy
Every April is Switcheroo Month at The Cultural Gutter. This month Comics Editor Carol writes about Horizon Zero Dawn. ~~~ Watch out, everyone, I am going to talk a bit about story elements because I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn‘s story. Sometime I’d like to discuss it in greater […]
“My 1000th Indian Film”
The Gutter’s own Beth writes about the 1000th Indian film she’s watched, Inaam Dus Hazaar (1987), a remake of North By Northwest (1959). “Even at only 5 minutes in, I knew I had made the right decision. What followed is not only a solid adaptation of the Hitchcock […]
The Secret City of Heroes
At Motherboard, Emanuel Maiberg writes about the revelation that City Of Heroes lives. “‘When City of Heroes closed in November 2012, this was very fresh in my mind,’ Pardini wrote. ‘Instead of trying to develop a server out in the open to suffer the same fate as Infinite […]
An Oral History of “R + L = J”
Vox has an oral history of the Game Of Thrones fan theory: R + L = J. “But while Star Wars fans may never know conclusively if Jar Jar was meant to have been a Sith Lord, R+L=J worked its way into the parlance of Game of Thrones […]
