Filmmaker Bernard Glasser has died. Glasser produced films including The Day of the Triffids (1963), The Return of The Fly (1959), Crack In The World (1965) and The Thin Red Line (1964). The Hollywood Reporter, The AV Club , Giant Freakin Robot and Variety have obituaries.
It’s an amazing time in comics right now. There are too many good ones for me to even read them all. Comics are like a hydra, but without the decapitation or even really the fighting. (So maybe not all that much like a hydra except I find one […]
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.”
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“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species […]