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Book Review: TALK ABOUT CINEMA by Jean-Baptiste Thoret is Too Fun to be This Smart

by Peter Gutierrez, May 17, 2012 5:00 PM


In case you didn't notice, there's a big problem with most film books, especially those that purport to provide a handy yet comprehensive overview of the medium's high points and key elements: they're boring.That's not to say that some of...

BOOK REVIEW: SHOCK VALUE by Jason Zinoman

by Joshua Chaplinsky, July 25, 2011 11:00 AM


Four out of five dentists may recommend sugarless gum, but four out of five horror fans recommend movies made in the 1970's. It's true. Ask any genre lover worth their weight in gore what their favorite decade is and more...

On the Soapbox PREACHER BOOK 3 from Vertigo.

by Canfield, March 29, 2011 11:01 AM


Life is a journey and if Preacher does anything well it is to detail the spiritual culture all of us are assaulted by in a fallen world as we make our way through it. The crass vulgarity and casual cruelty...

THE DISPOSABLE & THE DISCONTINUOUS: A Historical (Premodern / Postmodern) Note

by Michael Guillen, March 22, 2011 1:41 PM


"It's not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes."--Gilles... More >>

Book Review: ZOMBIES! AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNDEAD

by Kurt Halfyard, March 15, 2011 1:00 AM


Are you one of those folks who complains that zombies do not speak when the increasing legions of zombie fanatics yell 'Braaaaaiiiins!' during festival screenings? Or perhaps you are one of those higher-on-the-geek-scale types that cites Return of the Living Dead as...

Vertigo Crime ventures into AREA 10

by Canfield, March 10, 2011 4:44 PM


A new Vertigo Crime title in the mailbox is always welcome. These little hardcover thrill rides generally appeal to noir buffs but mix in plenty of horror the end result channeling everything from X Files, Touching Evil, to the comic...

Dark Horse makes VAMPIRE BOY available for first time in English!!

by Canfield, March 1, 2011 4:30 PM


Complex, raw and as disturbing a utilization of the vampire myth as I've seen in a while this is exactly the kind of thing that could get made into a lame movie though what it deserves the arthouse treatment or...

The Fishstick is in Hardcover!! Dark Horse unleashes BPRD PLAGUE OF FROGS 1

by Canfield, March 1, 2011 11:36 AM


I've had too many conversations where BPRD was glibly dismissed as an excuse for Mike Mignola and others to dabble in the world he created for Hellboy. As a late comer to the series I can tell from just a...

"Why are those girls in short skirts?" "Mom! It's called art!" 'Suckerpunch' Art Book!

by Andrew Mack, February 11, 2011 9:56 PM


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...

THE INFINITE VACATION #1: Good for What Ails You (Comics Review)

by Peter Martin, January 11, 2011 3:26 PM


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...
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