Varan the Unbelievable’s Unbelievable US Edit

Having just watched the 1958 kaiju film Varan the Unbelievable, and then listening straight away to the gang at the KaijuCast  podcast discuss this film at length brought me face-to-face with my pet peeve about this genre: US editions that rewrite the film from whole cloth. In this case, it was clear that the Japanese edition of

Cool Links from the Tweeps, 20-21 August

I finally got the blogs and sites from my 500-odd tweeps loaded into my NetVibes, so hopefully every couple days or so I can highlight the posts I find particularly good.  No rhyme or reason, just cool stuff I’m reading, that you should be seeing, too: Movies, Silently gives us a nice, and succinct, re-imagining True Grit as a 1917

The Most Inscrutable Satanist Hippie: Jadin Wong

Jadin Wong’s appearance in I Drink Your Blood  is perhaps the biggest surprise in this film. Like Bhaskar, she had a well established career at the time of the film, and also like Bhaskar, had established herself as a dancer.  Wong was seventeen years older than Bhaskar–she’d have been celebrating her 100th birthday a couple months