Impending Wuxia Wonders!
The Hollywood Reporter has a piece on new film adaptations of Jin Yong / Louis Cha’s wuxia novels. Plus, HK film industry folk discuss Cha’s importance to them. (Via Colin Geddes).
Summer Fun Time Reading ’18
It’s hot and the cottonwoods are seeding. The fluff is falling like snow and drifting in piles all over. That might make it seem like the start some kind of idyllic tale set in the West. There could be taciturn people brought together by loss and love. Or […]
“Nakia Is The Unsung Hero Of Black Panther”
At We Are Your Voice, Clarkisha Kent writes, “Nakia is the MVP of Black Panther–If Anyone is Revolutionary, it is Her.” “Still, that said, there is one more thing I have managed to not waver on, even as I have watched the film like 2345678186527 times: That Nakia—Not Erik […]
“The Broken Masculinity of the Punisher”
Dr. Nerdlove writes about The Punisher and Frank Castle’s broken masculinity. “Like the incredible Jessica Jones, Marvel’s The Punisher examines and elevates a character and a genre defined by tropes and clichés. Despite being one in a long series of knock-offs of the Lone Vigilante genre – codified in its modern […]
His Dark Materials on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 has a dramatization of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Listen here.
Now, Voyager and Mental Illness
At Vulture, Angelica Jade Bastién writes about Now, Voyager, its presentation of mental illness and hope. “In the years since its release, the film has garnered a reputation as Davis’s best performance and a quintessential example of the women’s picture, a proto-feminist subgenre that took shape in 1930s […]
The Cultural Gutter 