“You Are My Drawing Monkey”
The Way of the Smock trailer: how illustrated books are made. At least by John Paul Fiorentino and Evan Munday. It seems like a kinda toxic work environment.
Commentary Worth Having
Linda Holmes writes about commentary worth listening to in a sort of meta-review of This American Life‘s second season DVD set.
How do you feel about George?
The People vs. George Lucas
The Last Thakur
It’s a good time to like Westerns, especially Asian Westerns, with good-looking movies like, The Last Thakur.
Yatterman!
Takashi Miike follows up his smart and fancy family films Great Yokai War and Zebraman with Yatterman. Looks promising–there’s a giant dog robot and a lot of leather. (What the hell, trailers for GYW and Zebraman, too).
Before Bruce’s Fists of Fury, There Was Ip Man
Donnie Yen plays Wing Chun master–and Bruce Lee’s sifu–Ip Man in the eponymous movie. Asses are kicked, regretfully. But not so regretfully there won’t be a sequel where more asses are kicked in Hong Kong. Wong Kar-Wai’s Grandmaster Ip Man might show up, well, sometime. You can bet […]
The Cultural Gutter 