Lisbeth Salander Euro-Rivethead/Grunge is the New ‘Thing’ This Season

Women over 95 lbs need not apply. Lisbeth Salander – Bringing Back Leather and Spikes – NYTimes.com.

“Cut Back To A Wide Shot. Open The Skull”: The Faces Of Death Guy Looks Back

“Part of the challenge creatively was how to make it look like real life, to actually fool people. We were way ahead of ourselves on that ground. It was a subject nobody was doing anything like this then, the odyssey of death. What is this reality we live in for a finite amount of time [...]

Statham In Talks For Hackford’s “Parker”

Statham In Talks For Hackford’s “Parker” | News | Dark Horizons. “Based on the novel series by Donald Westlake, the story revolves around a thief who lives by a code of honor that includes never stealing money from people who need it.” Not to be a big ol’ nerd here, but having read every goddamn [...]

The Valdemar Legacy

Robert Hood reports on a Spanish film series with heavy Lovecraftian overtones. A Lovecraftian Invasion 5: The Valdemar Legacy | Undead Backbrain.

Steve Schapiro – Taxi Driver Photographs

Steve Schapiro – Taxi Driver Photographs » Design You Trust – Social design inspiration!.

You Kill Because You’re Paid For It

RHSmith of TCM’s Movie Moorlocks has a Jim Dandy post looking at the movie poster work of Frank McCarthy. In a time where any old schmo with Photoshop fancies themselves a movie marketer (and some of those schmos are even paid by the studios for work that can charitably be described as subpar), this is a [...]

Junkpile – 3.8.2011

Same Hat! has a nifty story called “Oni” by Go Nagai, originally published in Marvel’s late, great Epic Magazine. That’s some very metal stuff, right there. I’ve had it up to here with all these minimalist movie poster experiments that make the rounds, but this one by Justin Erickson achieves a high score. (via Twitch) [...]

Cross-talk: 31 Days of Knife

Over at the sister site, Positronic Halloween, I’ve started a month-long look at the slasher films, horror iconography, and other nightmarish business. You can check out the first installment here.

INCEPTION

First impressions? There’s a lot to like about INCEPTION. It’s a beautifully shot film. There’s a softness to the whole thing, granted, but that diffusion is offset by some really strong design and composition. It’s just really neat to watch on the big screen, although I suspect it will be just as strong in the [...]

High School Girl Rika: Zombie Hunter (NSFW)

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