Nobody has fully unlocked the secrets of the French liquor absinthe. Sure some say its the wormwood, but I personally blame that crazy green fairy that always pops up and starts stirring shit. Hazy memories, head-pounding mornings and cringe-worthy when-did-we-do that photographs are nearly always the result, but it’s not quite clear whether it’s the […]

Kind of a clever take on the timeless fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters tells the story of what happens to the famous erstwhile lost brother and sister after they almost get eaten by a witch. Apparently killing her begins a lifelong taste for witch blood, as Hansel and Gretel dedicate themselves to a […]

Sofia Coppola and now Catherine Hardwicke are making my mission to support women directors a wee bit tough. Coppola’s Somewhere bored me and angered me in equal measure, turning me into something resembling a lobotomized pit bull, and watching Catherine Hardwicke’s pricey new take on Red Riding Hood just made me feel kinda embarrassed. For […]

I don’t know why, but I’m a pretty big fan of pop-up books. Both that ABC3D book and Popville are legitimate works of art, and when done right they’re their own genre of awesomeness. It appears this Il était une fois book fits the above category, as this trailer for the book hints at. Illustrated […]