Exhorting Japan!
1930s Japan gets with the Social Realist program with exhortational posters!
Holding Out For a Hero
I recently read a column by Ilona Andrews about heroes, which A) though light-hearted was also informative, and B) I immediately decided to steal use as a springboard for an article of my own.< There’s a lot of discussion as to the role of the hero in modern […]
FantAsia 2010
Dread Central has the schedule for FantAsia 2010 in Montreal. This year has a special focus on organized religion with a screening of Ken Russell’s The Devils and Serbian genre films with a screening of A Serbian Film. which people have found hard-going.
The RZA Directs
The Playlist has the first trailers for the RZA’s first film, Wu-Tang vs. The Golden Phoenix.
Sammo at NYAFF
Can’t be in NYC to see Sammo Hung at the New York Asian Film Festival? Here’s footage of Grady Hendrix introducing Sammo Hung and Simon Yam before a screening of Ip Man 2.
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 […]
The Cultural Gutter 