I think it’s safe to say that at this point Bruce Campbell has gone beyond nerd and fanboy cult icon to THE living cult icon. To put it in terms for the modern reader: he is the original Nathan Fillion, an almost cartoonishly handsome square-jawed lothario type that had something classic and “Old Hollywood” about… Read more »
“When I want to put myself to sleep in the evening, I can go through my maternal grandmother’s apartment — room by room — and remember in the smallest detail where different things were, how they looked, what color they were. I also remember the light, the winter or summer light coming through the… Read more »
Guest post by David Stringer. We live in a world filled with cultural and biological diversity, which is nowhere more vividly on display than in so-called language hotspots – parts of the planet with extremely rich variation in languages, which are also almost invariably places with extremely high biodiversity. Take, for example, the island of… Read more »
Guest post by Eric Zobel. Video artist Ryan Trecartin’s I-Be Area (2007) is an anarchic tour-de-force. Written, directed, and edited by Trecartin, the film tosses viewers into a hallucinogenic virtual world that is both Crayola colorful and utterly confusing. Using forms of new media, the tropes of soap opera and reality TV, and non-narrative filmmaking… Read more »
I have a certain love for the sci-fi Western “genre,” from Back to the Future III (1990) to Joss Whedon’s Firefly (2002-2003) and Serenity (2005), as well as HBO’s remake of Michael Crichton’s Westworld (2016 – ). I call it a “genre” because many people might call it a hybrid, and not a full-blown… Read more »
Guest post by Elisa Räsänen. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Finland as an independent country. The centennial year is celebrated in various events both in Finland and around the world. Many events are also taking place in the U.S. Institutes and groups have been organizing public talks, film festivals and celebrations starting from… Read more »