Why do you suppose we only feel compelled to chase the ones who run away?
Feeds
- Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover
So many lessons from my hours in front of the TV this evening: The Winner The laugh track is still in use. The canned laughter on Rob Corddry’s new show about a 32-year-old virgin who lives with his parents was so overwhelming that it was almost hard to hear the sucking. Do directors believe that t… more
- You'll Always Sound Precocious
Now this is some graffiti I can get behind, as seen along the embankment of the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto. more
- Reel Mythology
Blood splashing across the screen like a Jackson Pollock painting; waves of soldiers falling upon razor-sharp blades, stoic musclemen staring their inevitable death in the face – 300 has style and bravado to spare. The cinematic retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan warriors hel… more
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Source: Popped Culture
- DC Comics' Horror Titles of the Seventies
In the Seventies both Marvel Comics and DC Comics saw a boom in horror oriented comic books. In the case of Marvel, at least, this may have been due to the fact that the Comics Code had been relaxed. The late Forties saw the arrival of horror oriented comic books. By the Fifties there would many mo… more
- A History of Hammer Horror Movies Part Two
The Sixties saw Hammer Film Productions at its height. The vast majority of its classic films were released in this decade and more Hammer Films were released in the Sixties than any other decade. The studio had distribution deals with both Universal and Columbia which provided much needed funding … more
- A History of Hammer Horror Movies Part One
When people think of horror movies, they are inclined to think of two studios. One is Universal, which produced many of the genre s classics in the Thirties and the Forties . The other is the British studio Hammer Films, which produced its own number of classics in the Fifties and Sixties. Hammer i… more
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Source: A Shroud of Thoughts