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Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for Alice In Wonderland

Open Culture has a gallery of images of Salvador Dalí’s illustrations for Alice In Wonderland.

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“Made (and Remade) in Asia”

At City On Fire, Paul Bramhall writes about Asian movies remade by other filmakers form other countries in Asia. “To cast a light on these often overlooked remakes, we’ve put together a list of 20...

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“Respect My Authority: 20 Years In South Park Isn’t Satire, It’s the Status Quo”

Friend of the Gutter Nick Hanover writes about South Park at Loser City. “Few viewers who tuned in to South Park when it debuted in 1997 would have predicted the show would still be going strong twenty...

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“Virtuoso Action Director Lexi Alexander Fights Back Against Hollywood”

Wired profiles the amazing Lexi Alexander: ‘“In martial arts, for every attack there is a counter you can throw,” she says. “Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias”...

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“More Covers: A Series of 36 Animated Book Covers”

Gorgeous book covers animated. Watch here.

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Toho Monster Roll Call!

Friend of the Gutter Brian Kirby has made a swank roll call for Toho Monsters. Download a high resolution copy of the poster for free!

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“The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft & Robert Barlow”

At the New Yorker, Paul La Farge writes about H. P. Lovecraft and poet, anthropologist and Lovecraft’s literary executor, Robert Barlow.

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“Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence”

Elle O’Brien shares romance novel titles and author names generated by a text-generating neural network. “I gathered over 20,000 Harlequin Romance novel titles and gave them to a neural network, a type...

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“Horror Web Series BFFs Explores Female Bonding & More”

Graveyard Shift Sisters recommends a new horror web series coming out this fall, “BFFs.” A bloodier response to Stranger Things with two female leads, Sasha Lennox as Wrenn Starr and Sterling James...

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“BGN sits down with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey”

Black Girl Nerds’ Kay-B interviews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.

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“We need to talk about Mantis’ Abuse in Guardians of the Galaxy 2”

At Women Write About Comics, Clara Mae talks about Mantis–her history as a character and how she was portrayed in James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. “When it was announced that director James...

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“The world is in a vampire movie. Maybe it always has been.”

At Graveyard Shift Sisters, Tarik Davis talks about the horror and monsters of American life in his series, “Stakes is High.” “In this series of coming articles, I will display the similarities and...

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“Breaking Badass: Only a villain this terrifying could be called ‘Chicken.'”

Our friends at Pornokitsch have selected Gustavo “The Chicken Man” Fring as their Villain of the Month. “Gus Fring was never meant to be the show’s Big Bad. Originally, he was slated to appear in only...

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“Same Stereotypes, Different Name.”

At Film School Rejects, Ciara Wardlow writes about “A Century of Female Fandom” and the stereotypes female fans have faced for the last hundred years or so. “[T]he biggest change from the 1910s...

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“Jesus, is that so hard?”

 Libba Bray writes about the process of turning her novel, Beauty Queens, which re-imagined Lord of the Flies among teen beauty contestants, into a film.  “But try, if you will, to imagine me with...

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A History of Mission Hill

At Polygon, Julia Alexander writes about the “tortured history” of Mission Hill. “Set in an undefined metropolis akin to Boston, New York City or San Francisco, Mission Hill was a show about the...

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The Adventure Zone

Listen as the hosts of My Brother, My Brother & Me play Dungeons and Dragons on The Adventure Zone. Here’s the origin story. “Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me...

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Interview with Marjorie Liu

Author and comics creator Marjorie Liu is interviewed at The Atlantic. “The comic-book writer discusses working for Marvel, the loneliness of novel-writing, and why her epic-fantasy series is mostly...

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Petcinematary discusses The Thing (1982)

Listen in as Pet Cinemetary discusses The Thing and Jed, one of the best dog actors of all time.

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“Truth In Jest”

At Hazlitt, Emma Healey writes about a particular scene in the fourth season of Louis CK’s Louie. “By the time Louie was in its fourth season, its protagonist had a lot of audience goodwill to burn,...

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