African Action Film Trailers
Amazing trailers from Ghanian, Nigerian and Ugandan action movies at Viewer Discretion Advised! (via @TeleportCity)
“How Patriarchy Screwed The Starks”
There are spoilers in this interesting discussion: “Game of Thrones is about how patriarchal systems damage men as much as they damage women.”
Ghanian Film Posters
Hand-painted film posters from Ghana, West Africa, including local films as well as Master of Shaolin, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Evil Dead and Blade 3. (via Pornokitsch)
Behind The Wire
“The Wire, he said, was essentially a Greek tragedy.” More on that and on the way the story bled into reality at Slate.
Lau Kar-Leung Remembered
The Ferroni Brigade considers how Lau Kar-Leung brought comedy to kung fu as well as scrutinized the kung fu film tradition that had come before him. David Bordwell writes about Lau and how sometimes stylized action captures the real better than “realism.”
Manic Pixie Dream Girls, Writing and Doctor Who
“Writing about Doctor Who this week got me thinking about sexism in storytelling, and how we rely on lazy character creation in life just as we do in fiction,” from Laurie Penny’s “I Was A Manic Pixie Dream Girl.” Her piece on Doctor Who is here. (via @katelaity)
The Cultural Gutter 