“Big Picture: You In Japan”
A 1957 US Army training film intended for American servicemen in Japan.
A Conversation with Lee Epstein
Daily Grindhouse interviews Lee Espstein, author of the biography, Lee Marvin: Point Blank (2013). “I had several moments when I realized that when you study someone’s career you’re going to see certain themes become prevalent, and with Marvin it was this constant thread of violence. I wanted to […]
“If it wasn’t them, they’d be playing their song”
Stephen Colbert talks about Daft Punk, among other things, on the Paul Mercurio Show: “Well, I’m beginning to see why they don’t do TV.”
RIP, Karen Black
Actress Karen Black has died. She’s best known to genre fans for her work in Trilogy Of Terror, but she also starred in Burnt Offerings, Airport 1975, Nashville, and Five Easy Pieces. The Vault of Horror remembers Black. The LA Times and New York Times have obituaries. And here […]
Plague Inc.
At the Center for Disease Control’s Public Health Matters blog, Ali S. Khan talks to James Vaughan about his app, Plague Inc. “Within the game, players select a pathogen and strategize how to evolve symptoms, transmit the disease, and counter actions taken by world governments and scientists. With […]
The Sweetness of Sonny Chiba
At Teleport City, The Gutter’s own Carol writes about the sweetness of Sonny Chiba in Terror Beneath The Sea.
The Cultural Gutter 