Best Korean Movies of 2013
At Modern Korean Cinema, Pierce Conran shares his list of top ten Korean movies in 2013.
Operation Scraping Netflix’s Data
“This database probing told me three things: 1) Netflix had an absurdly large number of genres, an order of magnitude or two more than I had thought, 2) it was organized in a way that I didn’t understand, and 3) there was no way I could go through […]
Interview with George Lazenby
The guys at The Daily Grindhouse interview with George Lazenby, star of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and The Man from Hong Kong, aka, Dragon Flies.
“What Monkeys Eat: A Few Thoughts about Pop Culture Writing”
Linda Holmes shares some thoughts about writing about pop culture: “Sometimes funny stories are just funny stories, and funny writing about silly things is just funny writing about silly things. But that’s not the whole story.”
“Why Marketers Fear Female Geeks”
At How Not To Suck At Game Design, Anjin writes about marketing, cycles of exclusion and what to do about it: “Yes, excluding people based on demographic data makes sense to a lot of people in marketing. It’s considered a best practice and it actually is a pretty […]
RIP, Tom Laughlin
Actor/writer/director/producer Tom Laughlin has died. Laughlin is best known for his Billy Jack series of films. The New York Times and The LA Times have obituaries. NPR remembers Laughlin. Here’s a promotional short from Warner Bros. featuring a demonstration from Master Bong Soo Han. And Laughlin talks about […]
The Cultural Gutter 