Understanding Closure
Curt Purcell explores the gutters of the mind, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and a little bit of Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis.
Monks with Guns
There are no bulletproof monks in Nak Prok/Shadow of the Naga. In fact there are some remarkably violent novices who’ve hidden stolen money in a monastery and have to get it out again. Wise Kwai has the trailer and a discussion of Nak Prok and the new Thai […]
I Can See Forever
It’s like the 1980s are a black hole and the event horizon reaches forever: The A-Team, The Karate Kid, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tron, Ghostbusters, Conan The Barbarian, Red Dawn, Short Circuit and Wall Street.
Smiting the Wicked in The Book of Eli
In the Hughes Brothers’ fourth film, The Book of Eli, Nick Pinkerton writes, “Our hero is mostly an Old Testament smiter of the wicked, finally—unless I forget when Christ said, ‘You lay that hand on me again and you will not get it back” at the Garden of […]
A Straight Line from Neuromancer to Spook Country
Your first book is a classic that essentially creates the modern era, or at least that’s what people are saying. What do you do for an encore? In the case of William Gibson, you can just follow the same interests in a different form.
Investigating Lois
Kelly Thompson never much liked reporters or Lois Lane, now she’s giving Lois a second chance with a review of Mindy Newell’s Lois Lane miniseries. (The discussion in the comments is excellent, too).
The Cultural Gutter 