Before there were Hong Kong movies, there were Shanghai movies. 1929’s Red Heroine is the only surviving silent kung fu feature from Shanghai’s golden age. The Devil’s Music Ensemble provides live accompaniment. Hopefully, they’ll tour. Wise Kwai has more information and a trailer.
Go to Detroit Metal City! Or at least go to the creditless opening for the anime series… and maybe the trailer for the same series.
Latex Metal menace and 2006 Eurovision song contest winner Lordi talk KISS and costumes with Artisan News Service. (Mr. Lordi was held up in traffic). Here’s Lordi at Eurovision.
Explore the mysterious mission de las calaveras in Gothtober’s 2008 Halloween advent calendar.
Got enough Ennio Morricone in your life? I thought not. Presenting the Spaghetti Western Orchestra performing, “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.” Their website’s here. (thanks, Colin!)
Scroll down for some rap based on Welcome Home, Brother Charles, a film about a Black man castrated by a white cop who gets revenge when his penis grows back.