The Legacy of Bruce Lee
The South China Morning Post is doing a series of articles on the life and career of Bruce Lee on the 45th anniversary of his death. Check them all out here.
Yojimbo on The Projection Booth
Our friends at The Projection Booth watch Yojimbo and discuss it, Fistful of Dollars, Red Harvest and so much more!
Impending Wuxia Wonders!
The Hollywood Reporter has a piece on new film adaptations of Jin Yong / Louis Cha’s wuxia novels. Plus, HK film industry folk discuss Cha’s importance to them. (Via Colin Geddes).
El Eternauta: The Library in the Sky
Our Guest star this week is Matt Finch. He writes about encountering El Eternauta ins Buenos Aires. ~~~ I saw the frogman everywhere. Always the same figure in the same pose, a diver’s mask pinched across his face, a rifle slung over his shoulder, advancing towards me. I […]
“Race: The Original Sin of the Fantasy Genre”
At the Public Medievalist, Paul Sturtevant continues series on race, racism and the middle ages with a look at the use of “race” in fantasy, including Dungeons & Dragons: “Tolkien crafted his fantasy world intricately. He, for example, took great pains to calculate distances and accommodate for the […]
The Act of Killing in Comics
For a while now I’ve been thinking about comic artists and writers of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. They were people directly affected by the wars and violence of their time. Some went on to create truly amazing and grisly horror and crime comics, in part reflecting on […]
The Cultural Gutter 