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more about #noir more comments → Klebert L. Hall: Well, how important were the medeival Japan settings of Kurusawa's Shakespeare re-makes? I'd say setting is an important part of a movie, and many di... more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Jones' film Moon convinced me. No matter how strange the concept, I'll trust Zowie Bowie to make it good. #duncanjones more » J_Frank_Parnell: Sounds intriguing, I'd like to read this but not sure I really enjoy reading scripts. Maybe I'll wait for the novelization. #duncanjones more » Motoki: Argh, script is yanked from Sendspace. Please tell me someone nabbed it first. #duncanjones more » TrueCrime: Good to see Ex Machina is back this week. more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: This may sound like a weird question, but how can a future be alternate? more » Alasdair5000: Burnt through all of this yesterday and it's fantastic. Easily one of the best comics I've read in years. more » Belabras: It lay eggs now. Enjoy! more » MargaretMoony: I was going to turn up my nose to this, but how can I resist "L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a w... more » bookling: I just read this book, and it is indeed awesome. I definitely recommend it. more » Eldritch: This came into my bookstore a few weeks ago and I keep wanting to get it, except that it is a TINY hardcover and still the full hardcover price. No id... more » William Mercado: Just finished it last week It's a good read, if you've been around the block gritty fantasy wise there's nothing new. If you're a fan of Gaiman, West... more » Batmanuel: Didn't Desolation Jones have a similar premise, except LA was a dumping ground for retired secret government agents? more » it must be bunnies: These images are sooo dark I now have a headache and eye strain! more » gorehound: This could be a disaster !! more » -
#mute
How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
Duncan Jones has described Mute as inspired by Blade Runner, but how important is the futuristic setting to the film's plot. A script reviewer finds Mute was originally set in the modern day, and told a very similar story. More » -
#comicswecrave
Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
Ignore your familiar superheroes this week; the Comics We Crave are all about unfamiliar faces (or unfamiliar takes on familiar faces), the stories we never saw on television and even an alternate history of the 21st Century. Who could resist?
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#webcomicreview
Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole
Fans of surreal mysteries like Lost and The Prisoner would do well to check out Sin Titulo, Cameron Stewart's creepy noir comic involving malevolent nursing home employees, teleportation, and people psychically connected through a vision of a dead tree. More » -
#bookreview
L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
Richard Kadrey was at the vanguard of the noir-tinged cyberpunk back in the day, so it's only fitting he's helping to shape noir's next frontier, urban fantasy. His novel Sandman Slim brings Hellspawn and trash magic to L.A. Spoilers below...
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#ifrankenstein
Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp
Classic monsters are being revamped into a dark detective flick where Dracula is a crime lord, Frankenstein's monster is a detective and we can only assume the hairless bride of Frankenstein you see here is his sexy undead secretary. More » -
#bookreview
23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
"Blade Runner meets Casablanca written by Nelson Algren" would be the Hollywood pitch for Budayeen Nights, a collection of stories by the late George Alec Effinger. But there's much more to these hard-boiled, lemon-scented tales.
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#bookreview
KOP And Ex-KOP Are Pure Noir Candy
Science fiction noir doesn't come much nastier than the KOP novels by Warren Hammond. The adventures of a bent cop on a rotten planet, they're like Dashiell Hammett mixed with Philip K. Dick. Spoilers ahead.
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#urbandecay
Why Does My City Scream?
Just as Americans are going to the polls in November, a mass media campaign will be ramping up that depicts cities as both dangerous and wracked with torment. "My City Screams!" It could be a slogan for The Dark Knight. Or any of a host of other movies, TV shows or books. But it's actually the tagline for The Spirit, the new comic-book movie by noir master Frank Miller. We love to imagine cities as hazardous, smelly alien worlds, even as real-life U.S. cities are becoming safer and safer. Why is genre entertainment's portrayal of cities trapped in an era of tenements? More » -
#antiheroes
Why Do Anti-Heroes Rule Science Fiction?
The first time I ever read the word "anti-hero," it was in an article about science fiction, and it's always seemed a very science fictional type of word — like anti-matter, or anti-gravity. Science fiction has its share of one-dimensional white hats, but the characters who capture our imagination are usually the morally blurred rascals, who have their own best interests at heart. You never quite know what an anti-hero will do next. Here's our guide to the roots of science fiction's greatest anti-heroes. More »
