Monster Cereals
B-Sol at the Vault of Horror writes about General Mills Monster cereals and eating what scares us.
Elementary
“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]
RIP, Jane Russell
Actress Jane Russell has died at 89. She starred in films and television in every genre from noirs (Macao with Robert Mitchum) to musicals (Gentleman Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe) to Westerns (The Outlaw). KPBS and The New Yorker have tributes.
Capturing Kinshasa Through Comics
The BBC has a fascinating story on Congolese comics and comic artists in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Includes little interviews with Guy Delisle, Papa Mfumu’eto Premier, Bruno Luya and Stephane Oiry
Interview with Elisabeth Fies
FEARnet interviews BleedFest co-producer and horror director Elisabeth Fies as part of its “Women Who Make You Scream” feature. Make sure to check out the other interviews.
Mishmash: McKillip’s Fate, Undersea Rapture, and Millennium Movies
What do a riddlemaster on a quest, an undersea utopia gone wrong, and sexual perversion in Sweden have in common? The answer: nothing! But I don’t have a big thing to talk about this month, so I’ll have to make do with a mishmash.
The Cultural Gutter 