Venture Bros., season 3
Fresh and toasty from the New York Comic Con, it’s the Venture Bros. season 3 promo with clips a-plenty! (thanks, tera!)
“Guillermo del Toro to make Hobbit films: bleah!”
Andrew O’Hehir is here to tell you that Guillermo del Toro making The Hobbit–and a sequel to The Hobbit–for Peter Jackson is not a good idea.
Infocom’s Lost Drive
A blogger got ahold of a network drive from Infocom circa 1989, which has the behind-the-scenes story — and a tiny playable demo — of the failed sequel to the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Universe, reconstructed from emails and other digital artefacts. Most of the text-game greats chime […]
“A Book’s Natural Fate”
So you’ve written a book that fits the current vogue perfectly – let’s say it’s a grimy cyberpunk novel in the mid-1980s – does that mean you’ve guaranteed long-lasting fame for yourself? Probably not. But don’t worry, a lot of your compatriots are suffering the same fate. Oh, […]
Interview with Jackie Chan and Jet Li
Speaking of Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are interviewed together at wu-jing.org.
Revenge of the Lady Fighter
With the ladies of Forbidden Kingdom looking a little… lackluster, here’s some of the original white-haired bride, Brigitte Lin (Bride with White Hair and The East Is Red) and the original Golden Swallow, Cheng Pei-Pei (Come Drink With Me and The Lady Hermit). And here’s some Angela Mao […]
The Cultural Gutter 