Folk Heroes are such huge figures of Chinese culture that to western eyes it may look like the milking of a particularly bounteous cash cow, look at Wong Fei Hung & Fong Sai-Yuk – between them we are looking at hundreds of titles. Both of those figures date back hundreds […]
Month: June 2017
S14E16 – Sadako Vs. RoboPriest
We have adorable robots and nonsense aplenty this week, so join us as we parade our way through the stranger side of science and technology news (while also discovering why Pepé Le Pew is the worst). With Samsung’s security, pacemaker hacking, teaching AIs in Paris, North Korean technology announcements, Toyota […]
Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016) it’s a tribute to life, in all its messy glory (Review)
Now here’s a real curio, and one you might be utterly beguiled by. Minute Bodies is a compilation of work by the British biologist and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith and his colleague and editor Mary Field. Smith was quite a celebrity in his day, cultivating an eccentric domestic-boffin image […]
Literary Loitering 66 – Magic Balls and Where to Find Them
4-Panel 90 – Free Comic Book Day Special 2017
Cinema Eclectica 115 – Pirates of the Carry On
Keyframe 78 – Dragon and Crocodile, Sitting In A Tree …
PX17 – The Walking Dragon’s Surge
Graduation (2016) a cinematically damning indictment of Romanian society in three well-versed acts (Review)
Despite some questionable actions, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Adrian Titieni’s Dr Romeo Aldea in award-winning director Cristian Mungiu’s film Graduation (or Bacalaureat as it is known in its native Romania); weighed down by middle age and with only his good reputation to comfort him and measure his success by, […]
4-Panel 89 – Xena Fanfiction Saves TV
It’s another week of not much going on, unless you’re into superhero costume-inspired sportswear or novelizations of manga that is. Our featured comics are Man-Thing #1, I Hate Fairyland #11 and 12, Star-Lord: Grounded, Deathmatch and Army of Darkness/Xena: Warrior Princess – Forever And A Day. Tune in to The […]