Night of the Coens
“A dull but perhaps original thought,” came to dccairns that, “boy, the Coens have been pilfering Night of the Hunter for years.”
“So Why Can’t I See You Kicking His Ass?”
John Kreng finishes the fallacies of why filmmakers make action so hard to see with the punches, kicks and elbow smashes of his thoughts. And you can see the whole thing here. (via ShelfLifeCC)
If Superheroes were Hipsters
Caldwell Tanner’s vision of superheroes as hipsters. (via Lost At E Minor)
5 Webcomics Created by African-Americans
Blackweb offers a sample of webcomics by African-American creators. Check out: A Pug Named Fender, JOE!, Addanac City, Company Man. (via Jay Potts)
Melodrama All Around
Seems like we’re not the only ones who have noticed a resurgence of melodrama. Chris Vognar writes about melodrama, Black Swan and The Fighter.
Ballerinas Watch Black Swan
The New York Times has a piece on dancers’ reaction to Black Swan. Meanwhile, Jonathan Romney interviews Darren Aronofsky and writes: “There’s much steamy weirdness that you don’t normally associate with ballet fictions: hallucinations, horror, lesbian clinches with doppelgängers.” Which is exactly what I associate with them. I’d […]
