“Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work”
Lady, That’s My Skull has fragments from a manifesto written by a disgruntled smoking scientist at a secret base in Nevada: “Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work.”
RIP, Paul Naschy
Spanish icon Paul Naschy has died. He was best known for his character, the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, but he worked in every aspect of filmmaking from the 1960s till his death. Cinebeats and FEARnet have tributes. (thanks, Colin)
Interview with John Woo
Andrew O’Herir interviews John Woo, harbinger of “Chinawood,” and reviews the international version of The Battle of Red Cliff (“Doves, lots of doves!”)
RIP Edward Woodward
RIP Edward Woodward. Respectable critics will righly remember you for Breaker Morant, but here in the Gutter we’ll remember you for The Wicker Man, The Equalizer and EastEnders. Obituaries here and here.
Scarred by SuperFriends
Friends, I wasn’t always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The SuperFriends. I can’t, in general, […]
Got to Get Back to the Start
The end of the world, via scientific calamity, and falling off the literal edge of the world – that’s one connection between Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. The other link? My attempt to see what two writers, well-known to others, […]
The Cultural Gutter 