Josh Brolin is Jonah Hex
Here’s some pictures of Josh Brolin looking kinda pretty as everybody’s favorite Weird Western bounty hunter, Jonah Hex. (See comics covers for less pretty). Cinematical is worried they’ll be pulled down.
Protecting Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen must be protected and Donnie Yen’s gonna do it. Kung Fu Cinema has footage from Bodyguards and Assassins storyboards and all.
Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing
Oprah’s Book Club had a massive impact on the literary landscape, and I mean that in a good, non-dinosaur-killing way. The huge surge in the trade paperback market owes much to Oprah. I was working for Chapters when it went nova, and the number of times we were […]
3 Trailers from Twitch
It’s Twitch round-up time. Supporting martial artists Mike B. and Russell Wong take the lead kneeing and kicking people in the chest in Thanapon Maliwan’s The Sanctuary. Lee Byung-Hun, Kimura Takuya and Josh Hartnett go to Hong Kong and walk the line between the police and organized crime […]
I Want My Mummy
This month we’re mixing it up at the Gutter, with the editors writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Chris Szego writes about movies. Well, mostly movies. I’m a total chicken. This means I don’t watch anything that smacks of horror. In fact, I tend to […]
RIP, JG Ballard
Two Ballard obituaries. One and an excerpt from two: “If there is a Ballardian presence in the cinema, it is Lee Harvey Oswald, sitting in a darkened Dallas movie theatre in 1963, watching the Audie Murphy picture War Is Hell, waiting for the cops to pick him up.”
The Cultural Gutter 