So Many Captains Marvel
At Radio Times, there is an explanation of all the Captains Marvel. (Thanks, Ann!)
“‘Paperbacks from Hell’ go to the Movies!”
The Film School Rejects share their favorite film adaptations of “paperbacks from hell.” “If you’ve ever read a book that has a skeleton on the cover perhaps playing the banjo, riding a tricycle, working as a doctor, dressed for a wedding, or just straight up being a jack-in-the-box, […]
“Eddie Brock’s Body: An Artistic Vision of the Venom Symbiote”
At Women Write About Comics, Paige Allen considers Venom and desirability. “Yes, Tom Hardy is hot, but that doesn’t mean people are also attracted to his movie characters to the degree we’re seeing now. And while teratophilia is an incredibly valid sexual expression, it puts the onus of […]
“Mysterious Traveler: Rutger Hauer, 1944-2019”
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz remembers Rutger Hauer. “From his early breakthrough years in in Dutch films by one of his most important collaborators, director Paul Verhoeven, through his more recent period as an oddball elder statesman who could be menacing or sweet depending on the requirements of […]
“Main Hoon Dracula”
The Gutter’s own Keith writes about Shaitani Dracula at Diabolique. Come for Dracula’s safari wear. Stay for the goose! See also the Gutter’s own Beth’s review of Shaitani Dracula here and a tweetalong in which The Gutter’s Keith, Beth and Carol participated here.
“An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men In Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene”
Rachel Handler interviews Vincent D’Onofrio and Barry Sonnenfeld about D’Onofrio’s performance as Edgar in Men in Black (1997). “Not for a minute do you forget that D’Onofrio is playing a gigantic intergalactic bug stuffed into the skin of a farmer. He lurches stiffly out of a flaming crater, […]
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