It sells itself really. The promise of 256 pages full of pictures of hot women in short skirts armed to the teeth with swords and guns? Hell. I've ordered ten of them! Spectacular limited edition book signed by Zack Snyder...

As I perused an advance copy of the new Image Comics series by Nick Spencer ('Morning Glories') and Christian Ward ('Olympus'), I kept muttering to myself, things like "Yes!" "Right, right." "Oh, good one," and, finally, "More, please." Christian Ward's...

The value of Alonso Duralde's Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas is as a Yuletide resource to research (quite possibly) every known Christmas-themed movie on the face of the planet (or, at least, the ones worth watching). Structured in... More >>

Alonso Duralde and I ran into each other earlier this year while waiting in line at TCM's Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. He let me know then that he was planning to publish a book about Christmas movies in... More >>

[Our thanks to Adam Hartzell for contributing this conversation to the Twitch readership.] Lark Pien is a award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. And she is also my friend. She is my sole connection to the world of comics, graphic novels,... More >>

Chris Fujiwara is a writer, film critic, journalist, and editor. He is the author of Jerry Lewis (University of Illinois Press, 2009), The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger (Faber & Faber, 2007) and... More >>

Fans of cult cinema and science fiction, do yourself a favor and track down a copy of Peter H Brothers' Mushroom Clouds And Mushroom Men. A detailed study of the 'fantastic' side of the Godzilla director's filmography this lays...

As mentioned in my previous entry, Phil Cousineau read from his latest book Wordcatcher: An Odyssey Into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words (Viva Editions, 2010) at San Francisco's Green Arcade Bookstore on Thursday, May 27, 2010. I... More >>

On Thursday, May 27, 2010, Phil Cousineau read from his latest book Wordcatcher: An Odyssey Into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words (Viva Editions, 2010) at San Francisco's Green Arcade Bookstore (recently awarded the Best New Bookstore by... More >>

Before finding words to describe my pleasure in viewing my first Lino Brocka film You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (1974), I'd like to render a few comments on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)... More >>