A recent edition to the ZZZFROMHELLZZZ channel on Youtube are three hour-long documentaries related to Science Fiction. The first, Profits of Science Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, centers on Sci-Fi visionary Sir Arthur C. Clark, the revered science fiction writer responsible for some of the most iconic stories of the genre. The landmark novel 2001: 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 […]

God this Chainsaw Maid video must’ve been fun to make. Sure clay animation is a laborious, time-consuming, meticulous venture, but when you’re molding a chainsaw-wielding Japanese maid, whose sole raison d’etre is the bloody dismemberment of virus-infected zombies, I think that must make the slow hours creep by a lot quicker. Beheadings, gauged eyes, gory […]

In California we can’t just go into any local Quik-E-Mart and pick up a slingshot, but you can if you’re from Idaho (as I discovered last summer to much joy). I miss my slingshots: lining up a rack of fresh G.I. Joe figures on the wooden fence, fistful of metal BBs burning a hole in […]

Although Frankie Rose is best known as one of the original founders of Vivian Girls, the sound of her new project, Frankie Rose and the Outs, has taken on a decidedly more shoegaze, slightly noisy direction. The Brooklyn stalwarts have taken their lo-fi garage sonics and penchant for rich melodies and upgraded the production, dousing […]

I really love pocket watches, but I’ve always assumed it was just a strange fetish. I’m the proud owner of my grandfather’s 19th century pocket watch, and although I’ve wanted to rock it out at the proper party I just couldn’t bring myself to leave the house with it — knowing my luck it would […]

That title above either gives you goosebumps like that revelation scene in Fight Club, or you just couldn’t care less (because you clearly don’t know what we’re talking about). There’s really no room for middle ground here. At the beginning of the year we posted the first trailer for Space Battleship Yamato, and this here’s […]

While flying to Italy for another top secret mission (to be disclosed in the very near future) I was forced to suffer through Lufthansa’s in-flight entertianment, which actually isn’t all that bad. In a sado-masochistic way, I kind of enjoy the chance to see movies I would never see in the real world. Or rather, […]