“Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse: Anatomy of a Scene”
The New York Times has a nice video breakdown of a scene in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
So many manicules!
Behold all these manicules, i.e. little hands pointing to important elements in a text! Some of them are from illuminated manuscripts.
“The Fear of Losing Faith: On M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs”
Friend of the Gutter Leslie Hatton writes about Signs at Vague Visages. “In 2002, after having watched multiple seasons of The X-Files, I felt secure in the certainty that I was not afraid of aliens. Thus, walking into the theater to watch M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs elicited no […]
The Great Ability of Miles Morales
I’ll try to do this without too many plot elements, but be aware, there will be plot elements in my piece. Near the beginning of Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Miles Morales father says to Miles, while driving him to school, “With […]
“Choose Your Own Demise”
At Syfy Wire, Sara Century chooses her own demise in a variety of choose-your-own adventure books! “There was an awful lot of not entirely age-appropriate stuff in those books — for instance, the copious number of violent deaths. From being rocketed down a chute into a crocodile’s mouth […]
“The Devil With the Devil Says I: Old Scratch in Early American Modern Music”
At Diabolique, Heather Drain writes about the Devil in American music. “Rock & Roll might still be the bogeyman to repressed, misguided fundamentalist types, but it wasn’t the first modern musical genre to get labeled “the devil’s music.” During the 1920s, Jazz was branded with that very same […]
The Cultural Gutter 