This video has been floating around for a while. I first freaked out and sent it to all of my friends a couple of weeks ago, when it showed up on Pajiba. It stuck with me, though, as few YouTube videos ever do, so that I felt compelled to share it with all of you. It’s an unusually creative manifestation of the list-making impulse, with well-selected clips and music, on a topic close to many film fans’ hearts–human villains.

Compiler hh1edits cuts a nice swathe through historical cinema, but doesn’t skimp on recent movie manifestations of evil, leading off with Chigurh and later giving a meaty chunk of screen time to Heath Ledger’s much-lauded take on the Joker. I’m very glad Kurt Russell’s wildly underrated Stuntman Mike gets some love. (Click here to read more…)

I just finished reading a pretty scary book. A good book, but a scary book. Contemporary author Cormac McCarthy’s latest Pulitzer Prize winning work, “The Road,” actually came out in 2006. I had wanted to read it since then—only the all too long queue of books to read for school got in the way. That coupled with a chronic forgetfulness about the list of things I want to do eventually led to me sitting alone reading “The Road” yesterday. What reminded me to read it was none other than the interesting recent news that Hollywood has made a film out of the novel, starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-Mcphee. For those who haven’t read it, the book takes place on Earth apparently after some cataclysmic disaster has destroyed all of society and nature. A father and son walk a desolate road towards the sea in hopes of finding some means of survival—along the way encountering cold, starvation, and, oh yeah, cannibals. Although it has a message of hope and redemption, it is not for the faint of heart. (Click here to read more…)