Milestone Movies : A City of Sadness (1989) A Brighter Summer Day ( 1991)
A colonised Taiwan finds a sense of national identity through its own great film-makers
Arts
The Complicatist : Cindy Walker, Roy Orbison & Nick Cave
Orbison rules, Cave doesn’t
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #15… Leo Hupert
The Amazon – Written and Illustrated by Steven T. Seagle and Tim Sale
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #14… Gordon Campbell
My Favourite Comic (this month) : Thor Walks Across America
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #13… Tim Bollinger
All Hail Ellie – Destroyer of Worlds!, Best of Black & White & Ninja Bugeicho
Milestone Movies : Do The Right Thing (1989)
Spike Lee’s critics fade to black
Classics : Marianne Dreams (1958)
The waking is the hardest part
The Complicatist : Sleigh Bells, Joanna Newsom etc.
So far, so good – the best new music from 2010
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #12… Gordon Campbell
My Favourite ( Recent) Comic : Futura
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #11… Tim Bollinger
‘Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater’ – By Eric P. Nash
I Saw Saw
One intrepid writer watches the six Saw movies one after the other, so that you won’t have to
Milestone Movies: Birth of a Nation (1915)
Should the racism in Birth of a Nation disqualify it from being considered as great art?
Classics: Toy Story 3 (2010) & Peabody (1983)
Did you betray your toys?
The Complicatist : Climb Every Mountie
Reasons not to sneer at the home of Celine Dion
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #10… Tim Bollinger
Great moments in my recent comic reading history
Milestone Movies : Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Sergio Leone’s great operatic Western about death, revenge and endurance
Classics : Daffy Duck (1937)
The duck that turned greed, envy and shameless self-promotion into an art form
The Complicatist : Mystery Girls
The incredible disappearing Connie Converse, and Janelle Monae
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #8… Tim Bollinger
Great moments in my recent comic reading history
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #9… by Leo Hupert
The Beats — A Graphic History and Progress No 8
Classics : Mrs Frisby and The Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien ( 1971)
Can genetically modified animals ever rejoin the natural world?
Milestone Movies : The House is Black (1962)
Iran’s cinema of hope, amid states of repressio
The Complicatist : Fear of Trains
Has anyone ever written a bad song about trains?
Classics : Dumbo (1941)
… until you seen an elephant fly
Milestone Movies : The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Hong Kong’s great gift to cinema
The Complicatist : Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the mongrel nature of folk music
Or, why your taste in music totally sucks
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #6… by Leo Hupert
Unknown Soldier, The Imposter, Saurian Era & Luna Park
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #7… by Tim Bollinger
Utopia Now Vol. 1
Womad under pressure
Can the world music festival survive in its current format and location?
Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
Looking out for number one