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'Kung Fu Hustle' Still Hits, 20 Years Later

4 days ago | coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Steven Asarch

Actor, comic, and current SNL cast member Bowen Yang recently visited the hallowed Criterion Closet for a customary grab-bag spree. Perhaps against expectation, his first pick was the Collection’s Police Story/Police Story 2 release, early masterworks in the career of living legend Jackie Chan.
Tornado offers an unconventional yet winning spin on the samurai story

1 week ago | avclub.com | Andy Crump

Opening in medias res is a bold choice, which Maclean pays off predominantly in Kōki’s performance later on, in a quiet moment of contemplation when the worst has already happened. All the audience sees at first, though, is the girl, alone and fleeing from visibly dangerous men, ducking into a countryside manse to spare herself their wrath. Why she runs is immaterial. The visceral terror of her flight sufficiently fills in the blanks.
Tornado offers an unconventional yet winning spin on the samurai story

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Andy Crump

Netflix’s new crime thriller show should be your next binge-watch — and it’ll have you hooked from episode oneIt’s been a while since a thriller grabbed me this fast, but Netflix’s “Dept. Q” had me hooked before the first episode even finished. I sat down …
Tornado offers an unconventional yet winning spin on the samurai story

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andy Crump

It’s not that the Western is new territory for Scottish or Japanese storytelling; see Ted Kotcheff’s Billy Two Hats, Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw Samurai, and, yes, a handful of unassailable Akira Kurosawa masterpieces. It’s more that the specific combination of jidaigeki period piece, highland character study, and frontier justice that’s new, making Tornado a harrowing, blustery, violent amalgamation of an idiosyncratic spirit.
“Fear Street: Prom Queen” lacks the thrills and brains of its slasher predecessors

2 weeks ago | salon.com | Andy Crump

Prom and horror cinema share a rich enough relationship to sustain their own subgenre: “Carrie,” “Tragedy Girls,” “The Prowler,” Student Bodies,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation,” “Dance of the Dead” and, of course, the film wearing the crown, “Prom Night.” A customary end-of-year school dance makes a nice, chintzy locus for assembling a gang of characters in a single location, where they can each be picked off at the convenience of the night’s M.C. (master of carnage, in this...
“Fear Street: Prom Queen” lacks the thrills and brains of its slasher predecessors

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Crump

Prom and horror cinema share a rich enough relationship to sustain their own subgenre: “Carrie,” “Tragedy Girls,” “The Prowler,” Student Bodies,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation,” “Dance of the Dead” and, of course, the film wearing the crown, “Prom Night.” A customary end-of-year school dance makes a nice, chintzy locus for assembling a gang of characters in a single location, where they can each be picked off at the convenience of the night’s M.C. (master of carnage, in this...
G-Dragon is just the latest example of K-pop's Nazi problem

2 weeks ago | joysauce.com | Andy Crump

Whatever tolerance I’ve developed for men like Musk, and the staggering majority of the Republican administration’s hatemongering cronies and frat bro orcs, like Pete “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” Hegseth, doesn’t apply to G-Dragon. I “understand” Hegseth. I do not understand the casual use of Nazi aesthetics in G-Dragon’s promotional material. I do understand his fixation on the number eight, a direct reference to his birthday, Aug.
Meet MinoMiyabi, the artist behind Lisa's 'Alter Ego' graphic novel

2 weeks ago | joysauce.com | Andy Crump

Everyone has a side hustle in the gig economy, even internationally successful and high-profile musicians. Gorillaz produced Gorillaz Almanac in 2020; Yungblud dropped The Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Club 2: Weird Times At Quarry Banks University in 2020; Alison Wonderland’s Loner came out in 2022.
Authorship for 'The Terror of War' suspended after 'The Stringer' doc

2 weeks ago | joysauce.com | Andy Crump

Since its 1955 inception, the independent nonprofit photojournalism organization World Press Photo (WPP) hasn’t suspended attribution on even one photograph in its archive. Given such, the group’s decision on Friday to do so with “The Terror of War,” one of the most famous photographs in any archive, came as a shock. There’s a first time for everything, of course.
Tune-Yards’ Better Dreaming is a Middle Finger Flipped With Casual, Funky Ease

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump

About a decade ago, Merrill Garbus did the seemingly impossible: She honored her alma mater, Massachusetts’ Smith College, by Smithing harder than any of the school’s graduates in history have, in response to criticisms over cultural appropriation in the band’s work. She whipped up her very own anti-racist curriculum. She participated in anti-racism workshops. She confronted her whiteness like Liam Neeson staring down the alpha wolf in Joe Carnahan’s The Grey.