Yatterings

As per the title, Ain’t It Cool News has an intriguing interview about Stardust, Beowulf, Death and so on.

Damn the Australian courts for patronising critics. A judge has just said that a bad review of a restaurant (now deceased) is defamatory. As Liz Hand says on the Inferior 4+1 blog, “time to start that legal defense fund“! This is not the first judgement, I believe, as a (if I recall correctly from yesterday’s [...]

The Guardian have a piece on Jan Svankmajer’s work as the short film DVD collection is released by the BFI.
Svankmajer’s work is not to everybody’s taste – dark allegories about the abuse of power – but his art is superb and makes the viewer think. I sort of think of him as the puppeteer version [...]

The excellent 30 days of nights is being made into a film and those fine folk over at Horror Movies have a selection of photos available.