Seriously, Readers, You Need To Meet Mithun
So many pictures of Indian movie superstar Mithun Chakraborty.
Cahiers du Cannon: Street Smart
Guest Star Jessica Ritchey returns this month with another entry into her series, Cahiers du Cannon. Last Month, Jessica wrote about Castaway. This month she looks at Christopher Reeve in Street Smart (1987). Until Batman V Superman disgraced itself in theaters the most reviled Superman property was easily […]
Deryni Re-Read!
At Tor, Judith Tarr is re-reading Katherine Kurtz’ Deryni books. “Katherine Kurtz’s first Deryni books were my gateway drug not for reading fantasy—that would be Tolkien—but for writing it. What she did in her medieval world, just a step over from ours, was this enormous “OH! Yes!” These […]
Charas: The Battle To Save The Human Race
If you don’t buy your drugs from an egomaniacal man in an orange wig, raspberry bow tie, pink ruffled tuxedo shirt, and sunglasses fitted with a metal nose cover, you’re doing it wrong. Charas is a fantastic example of what 1970s Hindi cinema does so well: packing a […]
The Projection Booth watches Hard To Be A God
The Gutter’s own Carol was invited back on the Projection Booth (again!) to discuss Hard To Be A God (2013) and Hard To Be A God (1989), along with the 1963 novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
“The Shocking True Tale of the Mad Genius who Invented Sea-Monkeys”
At The Awl, Evan Hughes looks at the life of Harold von Braunhut, inventor of Sea-Monkeys, brine shrimp marketed as a totally amazing civilization you could grow in a fishbowl. And, well, there’s a lot more to tell. “Von Braunhut was a wellspring of ideas, and some of […]
