JCVD is Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD. Watch the trailer. Seriously.
5 minutes of Cloverfield (and Bruce Campbell)
Twitch has 5 minutes of Cloverfield, the kaiju in New York movie that seems more like The Host than any monster movie featuring Minilla. There’s a plug in that one. And they have a trailer for the much sillier My Name Is Bruce, a movie where fans convince […]
Onomatoplaya
How many games can you play while doing the activity depicted? Margaret Robertson comes up with a grand total of… Chocolate Castle!
Not So Happy Ending
Talk about a long journey. Stephen King wrote the first line of a short story called “The Gunslinger” in 1970, at the beginning of his career, and the first volume of the Dark Tower series was published in 1982. Nearly 35 years after its humble beginnings, the series […]
“A sprawling, ambitious form of comic-book meta-fiction”
Zachary Houle writes about Michael Chabon’s latest: “The Escapist project is a sprawling, ambitious form of comic-book meta-fiction that bounces back-and-forth between rediscovered potboilers from the ’40s to ’80s and scholarly essays offering context and academic takes on these works.”
The Cultural Gutter 