I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “blood” from The Cultural Gutter
Don't Let The Sheepinator Fool You
Does
being amused by turning non-ovine creatures into sheep make you a bad
person? It
doesn’t seem like a serious question, but appearances can fool you.
Especially, according to Plato, if you are a fool. I think it’s safe to
say that there would have been no video games in the Republic.
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Noir, With Feelings
Some types of stories are so familiar that the only way to tell your own version of, say, a detective yarn is to find an interesting new angle. Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series makes the title character a wizard who solves supernatural crimes in Chicago. Additionally, Harry has feelings, which seems like the more interesting wrinkle to me.
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Fooling the System
"Fisher," they'd cry, "we're going to find you." They were looking in the wrong place. I was already somewhere else. And as they approached the last position they saw me,
that somewhere else was right behind them. Either a clean bullet to the head or some other form of quick, close, personal death, they slump to the floor, and I leave them for their friends to find.
And so the cycle would
begin again.
***
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FantAsia 2010
Dread Central has the schedule for FantAsia 2010 in Montreal. This year has a special focus on organized religion with a screening of Ken Russell's The Devils and Serbian genre films with a screening of A Serbian Film. which people have found hard-going.
Saturday Morning Happy Hour
Racial epithets. Topless women. Speeches interrupted by blowjobs. Steve Guttenberg.
Doesn't seem like fodder for a Saturday morning cartoon show. But in the late 80s the film Police Academy, which subjected viewers to such adult situations, spawned an animated series of the same name. Running for two seasons, the series featured the original franchise's characters--Mahoney, Tackleberry, Hightower, Hooks, Jones, Callahan - if not their voice talents.
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Machete Trailer, Cinco de Mayo Edition
Happy Cinco de Mayo from Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez and Machete with this special edition trailer for Machete. Includes Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson and Steven Segal, plus special greetings for the state government of Arizona!
Ong Bak 3 Trailer
There's a teaser out for Ong-Bak 3 and it's chock full of "Holy Shit!" (Including the Ong Bak Buddha statue, but I really don't think that's what'll make you say, "Holy Shit!")
Ghostfaced Killer
Sing,
O Muse, of a man of twists and turns, driven off course time and
again. Of hacking and slashing and blowing shit up. Of a man who
tears enemies in half and twists off their heads. Of saturnine
goatees. Of blood red tattoos. Of a moon pale man. A psycho, a
murderer, a ghostfaced killer.
Sing to me of Kratos.
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A Century of Cinematic Horror
Decade by decade, the Movie Morlocks look at 100 years of cinematic horror, starting with the 1910 silent, Frankenstein.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Bloody Disgusting also has a trailer for and clips from another horror comedy, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Tucker and Dale are just trying to fix up their cabin in the woods and college kids are offing themselves all over the place. (Interview with writer/director Eli Craig here).
Coming Home In The Dark Ages
A soldier returns home to tend to affairs after the death
of his father. Sound familiar?
It
did to me, too, but in Northlanders: Sven the Returned it's a good thing.
Continue reading...
Are Video Games Moral?
Are video games moral? Yes, but what does "moral" mean, writes Oliver Saenz in "Killing Grannies, Slaughtering Monsters and Leveling the Fuck Up."
Gory, Gory Indonesian Horror
Rumah Dara (aka, Macabre) is some cinematographically exquisite gory, gory Indonesian horror. Here's the trailer, but watch out: gore.
Smash Cut
Hey everybody, Gutter screen editor, Ian Driscoll, has a new movie out, Smash Cut, starring David Hess and Sasha Grey! The official site's here.
Shooting Fully Automatic
When James Warren and Archie Goodwin started Blazing Combat in 1965, they made a war comic that might, in Warren's Words, love guns but hate bullets (195), depicting war as sometimes necessary but always hateful and horrific. Blazing Combat was fully automatic for four issues
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Missing Duncan
"Maybe it's too bad that a game with such a strong visual imagination is entirely about kicking people in the face. But violence is your compass. You'd be lost without it." It's only been a few weeks since Duncan has stopped writing his fine, thoughtful pieces on games, but I miss them. Go read Hit Self Destruct whether you like games or not. (The piece I quoted is here).
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Average Babycart Assassin/Lone Wolf and Cub movie not have enough arterial spray for you? Not enough mutilation in Ichi the Killer? Neither of them have enough Japanese schoolgirls? Try Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, from the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and RoboGeisha.
"The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots"
Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen Bros. Blood Simple, or as it will be known from now on, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots. (It's going to star Sun Honglei from Mongol).
RoboGeisha: The Geisha War Begins
"Geisha is Robot." Geisha fight samurai, giant temples and lady tengu. Geisha also transform.
NYAFF 2009 and Hypnotic Escapism
The New York Asian Film Festival wants to help you escape joblessness, global pandemics and despair. Why don't you let it? (Info here).
Don't Let The Sheepinator Fool You
Does
being amused by turning non-ovine creatures into sheep make you a bad
person? It
doesn’t seem like a serious question, but appearances can fool you.
Especially, according to Plato, if you are a fool. I think it’s safe to
say that there would have been no video games in the Republic.
Noir, With Feelings
Some types of stories are so familiar that the only way to tell your own version of, say, a detective yarn is to find an interesting new angle. Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series makes the title character a wizard who solves supernatural crimes in Chicago. Additionally, Harry has feelings, which seems like the more interesting wrinkle to me.Continue reading...
Fooling the System
"Fisher," they'd cry, "we're going to find you." They were looking in the wrong place. I was already somewhere else. And as they approached the last position they saw me,
that somewhere else was right behind them. Either a clean bullet to the head or some other form of quick, close, personal death, they slump to the floor, and I leave them for their friends to find.
And so the cycle would begin again.
***
Continue reading...FantAsia 2010
Dread Central has the schedule for FantAsia 2010 in Montreal. This year has a special focus on organized religion with a screening of Ken Russell's The Devils and Serbian genre films with a screening of A Serbian Film. which people have found hard-going.Saturday Morning Happy Hour
Racial epithets. Topless women. Speeches interrupted by blowjobs. Steve Guttenberg.
Doesn't seem like fodder for a Saturday morning cartoon show. But in the late 80s the film Police Academy, which subjected viewers to such adult situations, spawned an animated series of the same name. Running for two seasons, the series featured the original franchise's characters--Mahoney, Tackleberry, Hightower, Hooks, Jones, Callahan - if not their voice talents.
Continue reading...Machete Trailer, Cinco de Mayo Edition
Happy Cinco de Mayo from Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez and Machete with this special edition trailer for Machete. Includes Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson and Steven Segal, plus special greetings for the state government of Arizona!Ong Bak 3 Trailer
There's a teaser out for Ong-Bak 3 and it's chock full of "Holy Shit!" (Including the Ong Bak Buddha statue, but I really don't think that's what'll make you say, "Holy Shit!")Ghostfaced Killer
Sing,
O Muse, of a man of twists and turns, driven off course time and
again. Of hacking and slashing and blowing shit up. Of a man who
tears enemies in half and twists off their heads. Of saturnine
goatees. Of blood red tattoos. Of a moon pale man. A psycho, a
murderer, a ghostfaced killer.
Sing to me of Kratos.
Continue reading...A Century of Cinematic Horror
Decade by decade, the Movie Morlocks look at 100 years of cinematic horror, starting with the 1910 silent, Frankenstein.Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Bloody Disgusting also has a trailer for and clips from another horror comedy, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Tucker and Dale are just trying to fix up their cabin in the woods and college kids are offing themselves all over the place. (Interview with writer/director Eli Craig here).Coming Home In The Dark Ages
A soldier returns home to tend to affairs after the death
of his father. Sound familiar?
It did to me, too, but in Northlanders: Sven the Returned it's a good thing.
Continue reading...Are Video Games Moral?
Are video games moral? Yes, but what does "moral" mean, writes Oliver Saenz in "Killing Grannies, Slaughtering Monsters and Leveling the Fuck Up."Gory, Gory Indonesian Horror
Rumah Dara (aka, Macabre) is some cinematographically exquisite gory, gory Indonesian horror. Here's the trailer, but watch out: gore.Smash Cut
Hey everybody, Gutter screen editor, Ian Driscoll, has a new movie out, Smash Cut, starring David Hess and Sasha Grey! The official site's here.Shooting Fully Automatic
When James Warren and Archie Goodwin started Blazing Combat in 1965, they made a war comic that might, in Warren's Words, love guns but hate bullets (195), depicting war as sometimes necessary but always hateful and horrific. Blazing Combat was fully automatic for four issues
Missing Duncan
"Maybe it's too bad that a game with such a strong visual imagination is entirely about kicking people in the face. But violence is your compass. You'd be lost without it." It's only been a few weeks since Duncan has stopped writing his fine, thoughtful pieces on games, but I miss them. Go read Hit Self Destruct whether you like games or not. (The piece I quoted is here).Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Average Babycart Assassin/Lone Wolf and Cub movie not have enough arterial spray for you? Not enough mutilation in Ichi the Killer? Neither of them have enough Japanese schoolgirls? Try Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, from the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and RoboGeisha."The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots"
Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen Bros. Blood Simple, or as it will be known from now on, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots. (It's going to star Sun Honglei from Mongol).RoboGeisha: The Geisha War Begins
"Geisha is Robot." Geisha fight samurai, giant temples and lady tengu. Geisha also transform.NYAFF 2009 and Hypnotic Escapism
The New York Asian Film Festival wants to help you escape joblessness, global pandemics and despair. Why don't you let it? (Info here).