Space Battleship Yamato
Live action Space Battleship Yamato trailer!
25 Or 6 To A Better Tomorrow?
This trailer for the Korean remake of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow has Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4” going through my head. (thanks, brian!)
AX: An Edged Collection
There are reasons I left alternative comics for superheroes and there are reasons I keep going back. They each have their wonder and joy; they each have their irritating and sadly heartbreaking points. Nothing’s perfect, not Superman, not Jimmy Corrigan. But there is a way to find comics […]
RIP, Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers has died at 96. Here’s an obituary and a clip.
Chris Claremont, In Summary
Jason Powell looked at every issue of Chris Claremont’s run on the X-men. Every issue. (Sorry about the previously missing link).
RIP, Kihachiro Kawamoto
It’s a sad week for animation with the passing of Satoshi Kon and now Kihachiro Kawamoto. A student of Jiri Trnka, Kawamoto created beautiful stop motion puppet animation grounded in Japanese bunraku and Noh theater. Here’s his short, “Oni / The Demon.”
The Cultural Gutter 