Jizztastic!
You read about it here (and here) and now you can have it all to yourself, former Gutter movie editor Robin Bougie’s XXX movie, The Cumming of Jizzus. Check out Robin’s blog for more info.
In Two Cases, Better Than the Book
A common saying, and I’ve said it lots of times myself: “The book was better than the movie.” It’s short-hand for the way that material that’s appealing at book length somehow loses its depth when adapted into a movie. But what about stories that improve in the conversion […]
Solomon Kane: Puritan Swordsman
Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane buckles his swash, fights the Devil’s Reaper and becomes a puritan swordsman in, well, Solomon Kane–a much better action movie with Christian themes in which the hero is crucified than The Passion of the Christ.
Clean, White and Saved
“Wonderfully retro and absurdly ethnocentric art depicting an idealized American empire on Earth and in Heaven from Bible Readings for the Home (Pacific Press Publishing Associates, 1963),” scans at Lady, That’s My Skull.
60 Views of Mount Wudan
60 views of Mount Wudan, “famed Taoist sanctuary and cradle of the Wudang school of Chinese martial arts” (via Kung Fu Cinema).
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 […]
The Cultural Gutter 