There’s something about the heat of summer that makes me want to watch something slow and surreal, like a series of mirages forming and transforming as I float in my summer heat bubble with a cold beverage. None of the films I’m thinking of are classic summertime fare, […]
Jeffery X Martin returns as this week’s Guest Star! ~~~ Some people look forward to the utter destruction of Planet Earth and the societies it hosts like a six-year-old awaiting Winter holidays. Explosions! Fireballs! Tsunamis! Avalanches! Probably all at the same time! Cold War kids have been expecting […]
Other than the crappy, ad-infused word game that I keep on my phone to occupy my brain on my commute (and which I will not promote here because of said ads), I haven’t been playing too many video games lately and certainly not making ample use of the […]
Yoshihiro Nishimura started out as a special effects guru, providing gruesome make-up and props for films such as Suicide Club (2001), Meatball Machine (2005), and The Machine Girl (2008). His breakout film was Tokyo Gore Police (2008), which became a cult hit in both Japan and the West. […]
I’ve had a cruddy day, so please indulge me in a visit to my favorite micro-genre of mainstream Indian cinema: people looking for things in Calcutta.I love a mystery. I love characters on a quest for knowledge that is ultimately used for resolution or even justice. I am […]
It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
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