Variety is reporting that Hideo Nakata will be helming New Line Cinema's screen adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Out. Funny, I thought there was already a screen adaptation, though word is it wasn't very good. Joe Forte of Firewall will be ... continued»

It's exactly as the title suggests. Huge discounts on books published by UC Press. There's a lot here, from history to film to science, all at discounts of up to 40% off. Check it out here. continued»

The weather has turned, schools are back in session, and workloads have shifted back to high gear. It’s safe to say summer is officially over. In an effort to catch up with the ever mounting number of things we checked ... continued»

Pitfall, the first film in Criterion's three film set is also Teshigahara’s first feature film. Having worked primarily on non-fiction documentary shorts, Teshigahara’s jump to an adaptation of Kobo Abe play, itself a surrealist ghost story criticizing the Japanese mining ... continued»

The past two months have left little time for extra-curricular reading, but now, with Summer officially hear, I have finally hit the books again. As promised, my full review of Nephilim: Genesis of Evil. The debut novel from author Renee Pawlish ... continued»

Oh wow. This is super cool. If you read this site you know that Kobo Abe is my favorite author. Well, Criterion is set to release a box set of Hiroshi Teshigahara films featuring not one, but three Kobo Abe ... continued»

Okay, so Spring Break is here and that means another round of Vacation Reading. Being that Spring Break is only a week, I'm actually attempting to read some pure entertainment for once. Brief bits on my two reads follow: Rage of ... continued»

As you may or may not know (Kris and I have yet to put up the formal trip articles) we just got back from a brief stint in Hawai'i. With vacations comes vacation reading, and we all know there's nothing ... continued»

Although I've been a fan of Haruki Murakami for roughly the past five years, I still hadn't checked out Ryu. The "other Murakami", writer of such bleak novels as Coin Locker Babies and director of Tokyo Decadence, is arguably more ... continued»

So I figured it was time to update you guys on my recent reads. For all the cult and obscure films I watch, I refuse to read pulp and mainstream novels. Strange, I know, but when it comes to books ... continued»

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? A good friend, mind you. Not just the person you trade bitchings with at work. Say this person had killed someone in the heat of passion. Would you help ... continued»

Over the Christmas weekend Kris and I attended showings of Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha. Having been reading the book for the past few weeks (I tend to read three at a time), and Kris being exceedingly busy ... continued»

Hey all, I'm a huge fan of Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle being my favorite book of all time. I had often wondered about the possibility of film adaptations of his books. I realized that for the romantic ... continued»

WAS BUKOWSKI'S LIFE FACT OR FICTION? Womanizing bastard. Insolent egoist. Bukowski was a rare someone who didn’t give a hoot what you thought about him, plain and simple. He was a dirty old man whose sardonic rants ran rank, slippery ... continued»