If it weren’t for the Good War, there’d have been no Mad Men. Post-war American pride ignited a spending spree that swept the nation, and the surges of consumer culture can be traced through the pages of All-American Ads of the 40s. Taschen’s hardcover book traces the 1940s post-WWII America, through its ads and the world […]

An amalgamation of superheroes and what built the House of Ideas Taschen is well established as the coffee-table and art book collector go-to, but they will really be turning heads, as well as pages, with this mega-Marvel-ous collection that captures the now 75-year history of Marvel comics and its characters. At 720 pages, the book covers […]

As you indubitably recall, Terry Guilliam has a new movie coming out: Zero Theorem (which we previously covered here). And apparently, although we’ll believe it when we see it, the upcoming film is reported to have all the weirdness needed to harken back to the brilliance of Brazil. Christopher Walz, who won our attention since Inglorious Bastards and Django Unchained, stars as a […]

SoCal producer Carlos Serrano has just mixed another mashup of two top vocalists, this time being the UK’s pop/R&B crooner Sam Smith and new album Ultraviolence-releasing Lana Del Rey. You’ve heard our two cents about the latter of before, but she still puts out some decent tunes. Sam Smith, on the other hand, has been lost in […]

This summer, the Reaction line at Funko brings a complete lineup of horror film’s finest freaks cast as 3.75″ collectible figures. At last, a Freddy Krueger doll you can cuddle up to before sleeping… and spiraling into an Elm Street-level night terror. Other villains include Pinhead from Hellraiser, the totally not-even-scary Crow, yes-of-course both Mr. Voorhees […]

The highlight of Blackbook Gallery‘s Deathstar Blues show that ran in Denver last month are these AT-ATs constructed completely of reclaimed skateboards by artist Derek Keenan. The show’s concept was led by artist Axel Greittman‘s vision of a Death Metal-inspired Star Wars universe, although the exhibit additionally served as a first-look appearance for Vans and Santa Cruz […]

High-end collectible toy manufacturer Hot Toys presents “The Bat”, a collectible set based, with eerie amounts of authentic likeness, on Batman’s stunning aerial vehicle from Dark Knight Rises. The set centers around a photographically on-point, 1/12-to-scale prototype aircraft with visual likeness right down to the weathered paint job. Figures of Batman, Selina Kyle and the fusion reactor are also […]

After two  prior throwback inspirations in the #TBT series (the Horace Brown-based”Stop Trippin” and Rose Royce’s “Wishing on a Star” being the last two), the Wu Chef now drops his third #TBT installment, this one based on the Isley Brothers classic “Footsteps in the Dark”  — you know, the one that soundtracked Ice Cube having an […]