It feels good to have been gone from the blog for a while, and then to come back and find things like this waiting for me on the internet….
Sometimes in the course of surfing the web, one comes across an achievement of cultural mash-uppery so epic that it defies all we know to be true. Where do people find the time? Why do they feel the need? How did they acquire the skills to make this happen? What does it say about our world?
It is within this context that I give you Paul O'Connel's re-telling of the Wicker Man as an Italian fumetti-style comic with Muppets. Take some time and read the whole thing. It's not that long, and the rewards are great.
I'd been hearing rumblings of this new Scorsese HBO series about Prohibition, but didn't really know too much about it. Now I have a hint, and man oh man does it look fierce. No air date yet, but "sometime this year"…
To say that I am geeked for this would be an understatement. In fact, I am so geeked for it that I'm already trying to de-hype my own brain so the film has a fighting chance of being actually good. Perhaps the idea of this film is better than any film could ever be. They've got tons of the same folks working on it, Jeff Bridges is in it, and it's in 3D. Whay do we have to wait until next December?
