Since it is Halloween, Jeremy Dyson has an article considering the fear factor in versions of Dracula and I’m definitely there with him on Max Schreck as the scariest of vampire of them all. For me it s the animalism of the character, that the vampire is closer to a bat than a suave, alluring [...]
Wired has this piece on an old idea made really quite new. Paul Notzold, a New York artist, has rigged up a projector so that random individuals can send a text which is added to a balloon on which ever film stills he has playing (the Wored piece had Night of the Living Dead). I [...]
The Independent is running an article by Timothy Taylor as an introduction to his documentary on the Discovery Channel at 9pm on Halloween called the “Real Vampires”. Normally these shows are little bits of a giggle and akin to watching a cat chase its own tail – nothing’s ever proved but the journey is quite [...]
Dom Joly has this appreciation of Tintin in the Independent which captures that essential quality of the reporter – it makes you want to discover the world. (Sans dog in my case as I prefer cats.) In the main, Tintin is pure escapism and his world is rarely truly dark and dangerous (apart from the [...]
Oliver Curry, an evolutionary theorist at the LSE, opines that homo sapiens might well split into two strands like the Eloi and the Morlocks from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine in a report for the men’s television channel, Bravo. He does foresee issues with the growing importance on technology such as the loss of social [...]
Wired has a piece on the return of 3d in the forthcoming Beowulf movie (but the trailer for the normal version looks good). I’m really not sure that 3d is going to take off though unless the cost of the projectors comes down for cinemas.
Wired magazine have a piece on American Manga (which is a 1.9mb download) which is set up like a Manga and explains its appeal and some of the key titles. Great reading but remember to read it the correct way…
They’ve also got a great article on Japanese Manga and its appeal, some of the uses [...]
BoingBoing has this post on the interruption of a performance of Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine by somebody posing as a police officer citing Californian law.
I saw Stardust film on Friday night pretty much straight after work and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was glad that it did not attempt to be the book which would have been disastrous but captured the essence of it instead.
In part it was like Rossetti’s Goblin Market with plenty of fairy fruit that one shouldn’t [...]
The Independent has an interview with David Cronenberg about his new film, Eastern Promises, and the biographical parts of his films. I’m not going to say that I’ve ever fully understood his films but its great to see a director feted for being his own person.