At the Victora & Albert Museum, curators unbox historic tarot decks! “Unbox six historic tarot card decks with curators Ruth, Beckie & Josephine and explore the rich and mysterious history of tarot — from its origins in 15th-century Europe to its modern use in spiritual practices. In this […]
On Tasting History, Max Miller makes a spam ribbon loaf from a 1950s recipe and discusses the history of spam. Watch here.
TokuSHOUTsu has a 24 hour live stream of Godzilla’s greatest battles. Though it’s really all kinds of kaiju battles including fights from War of The Gargantuas (1966). Watch here!
At the Guardian, Stuart Jeffries writes about Brannon Carty’s documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine (USA, 2025) and the fans who love the show. “It celebrates the men (and the fans Carty interviews are overwhelmingly male) who have found friendship, community and creativity […]
Check out this year’s Midnight Madness Program at the Toronto International Film Festival! If you can go, go! Ben Wheatley! Bryan Fuller! Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious! Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover! Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie! If you can’t, make your genre viewing plans for the next […]
Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on the history of Tarot cards and you can read it here. (Thanks, Kate!)