What the musical remake of Little Shop of Horrors lacks in kitties (this is the only one, shown for a second during the opening number; of course our immediate reaction to seeing a kitty not related to the plot of the movie is to pause to get a screenshot for the link dumps) it greatly makes up for in blood-thirsty, alien plants and sexy, doo-wop trios. With that said, please enjoy these musical (read: totally not musical at all) links!
- This isn’t for another month and a half, but we’re eagerly participating in the Garbo Laughs Queer Film Blogathon. Stay tuned for more details!
- The text may be in French, but these Art Nouveau posters for sci-fi/fantasy movies (including Star Wars and Alien) are beautiful in any language.
- I’ll link to anything about Pauline Kael, so here’s a fine appreciation of her work from Open Letters Monthly.
- According to Female First, Martin Scorsese was depressed during the filming of Taxi Driver. (And no wonder!)
- This Guardian book review talks about the connections between Houdini and cinema.
- The Self-Styled Siren tackles a scene from George Stevens’ masterpiece (maybe?) Giant involving Rock Hudson and racism.
- According to nerdbastards.com, Netflix is going to make all Marvel animated series available for instant streaming. If this is the case, then I will be very, very happy.
- Don’t deny it: you want to read a long essay about vampires.
- Alex Jackson of Viddied Reviews talks insightfully about intertextuality, film history, and Inception.
- Frieze Magazine has a fascinatingly in-depth interview with the late father of computer music, Max Mathews, discussing his work at Bell Labs with scientists, avant-garde musicians, and Stanley Kubrick.
- Another Tumblr meme and this one is even closer to my heart: Fuck Yeah, Women’s Studies Wolverine.
Alas, we had a drought of truly weird or awful search terms. The only one that really stood out to me was “mom and dad eat the babysitter pussy” because honestly, that’s fucking gross. It’d be odd without “pussy” at the end, but that one word puts it over the edge. Honestly, WTF.
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