Titanoboa!
Fear the crocodilian-crushing coils of the mighty Titanoboa!
Giant Razorbacks, “Reluctant Superstuds” and Jimmy Wang Yu
Let your cursor drift to the right and all the way down for Ozploitation trailer goodness like a giant razorback, a postapocalyptic drive-in, erection jokes as well as Donald Pleasance, George Lazenby and Jimmy Wang Yu at Flyp magazine’s look at Not Quite Hollywood.
The Modern Master of Suitmation
It’s a little Minoru Kawasaki retrospective: Calamari Wrestler (2004); Executive Koala (2005); Beetle, The Horn King (2005); Kani Goalkeeper (2006); The World Sinks Except Japan (2006).
Giant Critters, So Tasty!
“In early ’90s Japan, mobs of hungry primeval men hunted gigantic prehistoric creatures in a series of fanciful ‘Cup Noodle’ commercials featuring stop-motion animation by Kim Blanchette.” And Pink Tentacle has video!
Harryhausen Creatures
Do you miss the days of dynamation? Stopmotion skeletons and Selenites? Mighty Joe Young and the Minoton? Chinese Jet Pilots has a Ray Harryhausen Creature List with clips of nearly every creature Harryhausen made. There’s also a link to some nice stopmotion footage. Check out the beetlemen by […]
In the Sewer with the Alligators
I’m tired of the two-camera, hour-long drama. I’m tired of the Oscar-oriented mainstream film. I’m tired of “literary fiction,” you know, respectable middlebrow art. I don’t enjoy everyday reality heightened with swelling strings. I’m tired of realism’s conventions; so I’ve been turning to comics, pulp fiction, cartoons and […]
The Cultural Gutter 