Cutting Snowpiercer
Director Bong Joon-ho confirms that the Weinstein Company will be cutting his film Snowpiercer for release in the “English-speaking territories.” Updates from Yahoo News and Variety via @NewKoreanCinema
On The State of TV Criticism
Indiewire talks to TV Club‘s Todd VanDerWerff about television criticism: “The way we’ve been selling ‘review’ versus ‘recap’ is ‘Should I watch this?’ versus ‘What did I just watch?’ The move toward episodic criticism has been a good thing for TV criticism on the whole, I think, but […]
Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
A few pages from Guillermo Del Toro’s notebooks and a book trailer for his upcoming, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections and Other Obsessions.
“Die Like A Man”
At Wired, Laura Hudson writes about masculinity and Breaking Bad: “Taken to its furthest extent, this brand of masculinity punishes men for acting like Jesse, and instead produces men like Walt[.]”
Interview with the Authors of Taken By The T-Rex
At The Cut, Maureen O’Connor interviews Christie Simes and Alara Branwyn, authors of dinosaur and monster erotica like In The Velociraptor’s Nest and Taken By The Triceratops. (via @filmclassics)
Gothic Galactic
It makes sense that so much of Mario Bava’s oeuvre would deal with situations and people that/who are not what they seem. His whole life was spent in the world of deception and illusion. His father was a sculptor who moonlighted as an effects man for Italy’s magnificent […]
The Cultural Gutter 