Sunday, February 9, 2014

Friday, January 24, 2014

We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 210

Fantastic Fest 2013 favourites coming your way this year

on January 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

saw Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are and loved it (made me check out Stake Land, which was also pretty sweet), and the rest of these look very good. only just hearing about Proxy and Baskin, and they definitely have my interest, as does Ti West's the Sacrament ( House of the Devil did little for me beyond having some actors that i like and an aesthetic/atmosphere i find enjoyable, but the Innkeepers surprised me and i enjoyed his segment in the first V/H/S/) and of course Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears will no doubt be a favorite.

best part about all of these? the producers of Paranormal Activity and/or Insidious don't seem to be involved in any way.

We Are the Sprocket Holes vol. 209


 
 
 
i'll let the music speak for itself:

Thursday, January 23, 2014

NERRRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 42




Last Alan Moore Interview?

 


covers A LOT of ground here, the most telling of all being what could be considered the final word on the overvalued bibliography of Grant Morrison, a writer who has nothing going for him but the premises he steals from Moore, which he proceeds to sheathe in empty gimmickry and semi-ironic Silver Age callbacks, playing on the misguided nostalgia of challenge-phobic DC/Marvel zombies, offering not a fresh take or a researched examination of whatever mostly forgotten relics he collected from the four-color mothballs. Arkham Asylum was the one thing he had, and that's only because of Dave McKean's brilliant art and because Morrison hadn't yet fully received the clout to just do whatever the hell he wanted, so his uncoordinated weird-for-weird's sake early drafts (which included an even more homophobic iteration of the Joker, complete with a big mohawk and an early 80s Madonna fashion sense) being filtered  through editors and McKean himself.