“Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Movies”
Open Culture has a list of Akira Kurosawa’s favorite films. Well, at least 100 of them. (There are probably more).
Remembering Yuen Hua
At Ask For The Moon, Meredith Lewis remembers Hong Kong film icon, Yuen Hua. “’He’s gorgeous!’ said my Mum, boggling at Yueh Hua playing the titular role in The Lizard. ‘He’s warm, funny, and he’s really really good.’”
Until Dawn: Choose Your Own Horrible, Grisly Demise
Horror has been part of video games since at least 1981’s 3D Monster Maze, but it’s not always a seamless union of genre and media. The dopemine triggering mechanics of videogames — leveling up, acquiring better abilities and weapons, unlocking the ability to dress your character in sexy […]
“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).
“It’s Time to Break Up Disney”
Matt Stoller writes about the consequences of the new Disney and why it should be broken up. “The new Disney is more a private equity group than studio, collecting brands and using them to bargain aggressively with partners, suppliers and consumers. Imperial Disney is the result not of […]
So THAT’S What Snowflake’s Green Eye Flashes Signify!
Horror Editor Angela is enjoying her early birthday present of another classic born in 1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu, but she is doing so with a new, learned perspective of how much the social and political landscape of post-war Japan informed the utterly bizarre, gory Pee-Wee’s Playhouse of haunted […]
The Cultural Gutter 