Winter is Coming
Gianluca Maconi’s gallery of characters makes a great case for a comic based on George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. (via Robot 6)
A Prowler Through The Dark
“In off the moors, down through the mist bands/ God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.” (Beowulf. Seamus Heaney, trans. 710-1) I have seen many adaptations of Beowulf, from art house films like Beowulf and Grendel and low-budget science fiction like Christopher Lambert’s Beowulf of the future to Neil Gaiman’s […]
Genre on TV: Fantasy, Zombies
HBO has a teaser up for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, AMC has a clip up of actors learning to act like zombies for its upcoming The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman’s comic.
Summer Fun Time Reading!
It’s summertime and all the happenin’ sites have advice about bikinis, manscaping, quick cool meals and reading lists. I have no idea what to tell you about beachwear, other than you do look cute in that, but I do have some reading suggestions.
NYAFF 2010
The New York Asian Film Festival is coming up and actors Sammo Hung and Simon Yam will be in attending their films Kung Fu Chefs, Bodyguards and Assassins, Echoes of the Rainbow and Eastern Condors. But even if you can’t make it, it’s worth checking out the films […]
Interview with John Woo
Andrew O’Herir interviews John Woo, harbinger of “Chinawood,” and reviews the international version of The Battle of Red Cliff (“Doves, lots of doves!”)
The Cultural Gutter 