James Hong!
Paste Magazine has an appreciation of actor James Hong and his 500 film roles!
“An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men In Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene”
Rachel Handler interviews Vincent D’Onofrio and Barry Sonnenfeld about D’Onofrio’s performance as Edgar in Men in Black (1997). “Not for a minute do you forget that D’Onofrio is playing a gigantic intergalactic bug stuffed into the skin of a farmer. He lurches stiffly out of a flaming crater, […]
“Why We Can’t Stop Watching Keanu Reeves, 30 Years On”
Angelica Jade Bastién considers Keanu Reeves. “Throughout his career, Reeves has eschewed obvious transformation in favor of something trickier and more subtle. What has allowed him to remain a star, 30 years later, is a blend of virility, vulnerability, and an aura of mystery, hearkening to a bygone […]
From the Archives: Loving the Alien: Superman and Masculinity
Superman’s greatest power is not his strength or heat vision, but his restraint and his theatricality both in restraining that power while pretending to fight as hard as he can and in passing as Clark Kent.
“Opera, Gangsters and Swordplay: The Rise and Fall of Hong Kong Cinema”
The South China Morning Post has a look at the history of Hong Kong cinema. “City Weekend explores the long and colourful history of cinema in Hong Kong – its birth, its growth, and whether it is really, as suggested by some, a dying industry.”
“The Birth of the Queer T-Shirt”
Jonathan Katz writes about the power of activist drag: “[F]rom our current vantage point, the advent of sloganeering clothing seems vastly less of a defining break with the past than in fact it was. Queer fashion once spoke sotto voce to insiders, at once defining membership in a […]
The Cultural Gutter 