Video Essay on Dario Argento
Filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet made a four-minute video essay on director Dario Argento’s films for the French television channel Arte. via @Popshifter
The Dandy Doctor
You may have missed the news, but this is the 50th anniversary of a cheap, scrappy British science fiction series called Doctor Who. Like a fair number of folk my age, I first stumbled across Doctor Who one Saturday afternoon on PBS, back when PBS was able to […]
“Everything is, AND ALWAYS WAS, Very Very Serious”
Chris Sims reviews DC’s Superman: A Celebration OF 5 Years. “It’s divided into different eras….But thematically? There’s not a lot of variety. They focus overwhelmingly on one idea of how they want you to see Superman, and the Superman they present is a depressed sad sack who never […]
“Bettie Page Gives Naughty a Good Name”
At Newsweek, Gogo Lidz profiles Betty Page and Mark Mori’s documentary about Page.
RIP, Marcia Wallace
Actress Marcia Wallace has died. Marcia Wallace is probably best known for voicing Edna Krabappel in The Simpsons, playing receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show, as Maggie Hawley in That’s My Bush! and as Annie Wilkes on The Young And The Restless. Entertainment Weekly, The New […]
RIP, Antonia Bird
Director and producer Antonia Bird has died. Bird is probably best known for her films Ravenous (1999) and Priest (1994), but she also directed UK television series, episodes and tv movies such as, The Village, Cracker, MI-5, Inspector Morse and EastEnders. The BBC has an obituary. The Guardian […]
The Cultural Gutter 