Black Victoriana
A gallery of photographs of people of African descent from the Victorian era. (Via Kit Marlowe)
RIP, Kate O’Mara
Actor Kate O’Mara has died. She performed the Rani in Doctor Who, Caress Morell in Dynasty, Mademoiselle Perrodot in The Vampire Lovers and Alys in The Horror of Frankenstein. O’Mara also had roles in Absolutely Fabulous, The Avengers, The Saint, Danger Man / Secret Agent, The Persuaders and […]
“Gang War” Scene from The Raid 2/Berandal
Gareth Evans has shared a deleted scene from the upcoming Berandal / The Raid 2. As Evans says: “Just to clarify, this isn’t something we had to cut for censorship. We removed this back in December during editing.”
“The Public Voice of Women”
Mary Beard writes about gender, speech, and the depiction of the sound of women’s voices from Homer’s time until now. “I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; […]
“What’s To Be Done With The Fantastic Four (Part 1)”
Colin Smith returns to Too Busy Thinking About My Comics to ask, “What’s To Be Done With The Fantastic Four?”
Theater as Seance
“In 1911, the famed American medium Anna Eva Fay held a public seance at the London Coliseum, inviting audience members to ask questions that she would answer by channelling the dead. Seated in the auditorium was Violet Coward, whose beloved 11-year-old son, Noël, had just begun his stage career […]
The Cultural Gutter 