Idle pursuits of 2014 so far

End of a Summer

HiLobrow’s year… so far.

Mr. X contra Scotland Yard (1949), by Martin Porlock.

Across the Frontier

Harryhausen’s animation is not realistic… it’s magical.

Kern Your Enthusiasm, Kirby’s Fourth World & more!

De Afschuwelijke X (c. 1946), by R. Poupon.

He documented Creole cuisine at the moment of its invention.

He transformed physical dissonance into spiritual beauty.

Sonorous Snark

How the People of Dublin received the New Evangel

He pioneered the open-air adventure thriller.

Mother Touch

Chapter VIII: An Unwelcome Guest

Telephones in British supernatural lit.

His Cold War movies predict Pynchon’s seriocomic acuities.

A Voice in the Night

Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

We are condemned to be free.

Christopher Lee’s ‘X’ Certificate (1975)

Boomer Visionquest

He won every available U.S. military combat award for valor.

A Brief History of a Crypto-Science