The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Airships, mysterious islands, satanic scientists, vampiric creatures, tragedy. All in silhouette in The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello. (Thanks, Steven!)
What’d I miss?
And further to the subject of analyses of opening credits sequences, The Art of the Title is a repository of, well, just that.
By hook or by crook
We want information! Further to the remembrance of Patrick McGoohan, here’s a 12-minute and 19-second analysis of The Prisoner’s one-minute, 47-second opening credits sequence. Be seeing you.
Galleries of Destruction and Awesomeness
“Giant monsters attack Flickr!” and Kung Fu Fridays is there to capture it with links anatomical drawings of kaiju and links to other galleries of monsters, Irwin Allen, architecture, 60s pop styles and all kinds of goodness.
GO!
I recently had a chance to watch the Wachowski siblings’ live-action adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida’s Speed Racer (aka the much-more-evocative Mach Go Go Go) for a second time. After 135 hallucinatory, candy-coated minutes of Mobius strip racetracks and Mobius strip plot, I was left with one question: is […]
Ricardo Montalbán, RIP
Ricardo Montalbán has died. Gutter fans probably remember best his roles in Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Fantasy Island and Spy Kids, but Montalbán had a long career and also worked hard to combat stereotypical depictions of Latinos. Linda Holmes writes about Montalbán trapped on Fantasy Island […]
The Cultural Gutter 