Roofed!
Jim Munroe’s been working on a new movie, Ghosts with Shit Jobs. It’s not even out and he has a spin-off game–“Roofed!”
Smiting the Wicked in The Book of Eli
In the Hughes Brothers’ fourth film, The Book of Eli, Nick Pinkerton writes, “Our hero is mostly an Old Testament smiter of the wicked, finally—unless I forget when Christ said, ‘You lay that hand on me again and you will not get it back” at the Garden of […]
In Two Cases, Better Than the Book
A common saying, and I’ve said it lots of times myself: “The book was better than the movie.” It’s short-hand for the way that material that’s appealing at book length somehow loses its depth when adapted into a movie. But what about stories that improve in the conversion […]
Jenkins’ List
Henry Jenkins writes up a handy list of some comics he’s enjoyed recently, divvied into stories of everyday life, superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and some unclassifiable items.
“Alien 0 or Alien 5?”
Continuity’s at risk in the new Alien prequel. Faced with “the space jockey,” xenomorph eggs in the cargo hold and what the corporation knew and when they knew it, Martin Anderson foresees “some nasty acts of canon-hacking.”
OH, THE MEGA-HUMANITY!
So, Richard Kelly has a new movie coming out. Entitled The Box, it’s based on a Twilight Zone episode written by Richard Matheson, which is in turn based on a short story, also written by Richard Matheson. And I’m pretty sure there’s an entire article in Matheson’s impact […]
The Cultural Gutter 