The Unforgiving Minute (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear TD,You seem like a fascinating guy with a rich inner life and excellent taste. And you have a “Movies” category in your sidebar! But you haven’t posted anything about movies in quite a while. What are you watching these days? You should go see The Dark Knight. It’s the best movie EVAR. Batman beats [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A whole generation of film buffs grew up with Alex Cox. From 1988 to 1994, he presented Moviedrome for the BBC, his soft voice guiding you into the nether regions of cult film. After making Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, he wasn't just a hipster but a film-maker with credibility, and a moral compass that appealed to fellow artists including Joe Strummer, with whom he worked over many subsequent films....
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
"What can one say about Rudy Wurlitzer that doesn't suggest multitudes of overlapping worlds'... After several years in the New York literary and visual arts underground as a participant observer, Wurlitzer emerged with a series of one of a...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
My heart sank when I read here that Alex Cox is planning a sequel to Repo Man (his second, if you count the recent comic book follow-up), a movie to be called Repo Chick, which will not include the characters...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
There's going to be a sequel to Repo Man apparently, you know the cult film from Alex Cox that starred Emilio Estevez? Well this one comes from the writer/director of the original, Cox himself, but there's a major change to the story. It's called Repo Girl. I'm not someone who feels that precious about Repo Man, but I know that there are those who do. I wonder if it's such a big change to them'...Visit...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
§ Alex Cox reviews GODDESS OF WAR and comments on sundry other matters at Comics Should Be Good!: This is a comic unlike anything I have ever read, and certainly one of the most original books so far this year. But best of all, this is a comic that could only exist in this medium; this [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
(Editors Note: Alex Cox was supposed to begin his column today, wherein he would speak on books of interest from week to week. He was quite excited to write a lengthy review of FREDDY AND ME by Mike Dawson, which he loved very much and speaks highly of at many given opportunities. However, he has evidently been quite busy [...]
comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
*Waldos Hawaiian Holiday GN* Writer : Alex Cox, Chris Bones Artist : Justin Randall Description : The official sequel to the cult film, Repo Man! Waldo, recently returned from Mars, is forced to choose where his allegiances lie his boss, Duke Mantee, or the sex goddess, Velma; money or...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Elizabeth Genco, whose graphic novel Blue was recently announced, does a lot of heavy lifting by surveying several indie friendly retailers to find out how on earth to get publicity for a lone indie book these days: The fact that Blue is in Previews doesn't mean bupkus. There are a squillion books in Previews. The [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Alex Cox is the co-owner of Rocketship in Brooklyn, NY. (Image snaked from Stuart’s website) I have long been a fan of Stuart Immonen… I would read just about anything he was working on, if it crossed my path. He was a always a great designer, and there was a looseness to his linework that had a [...]
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
David Willentz catches up with Alex Cox's many projects at Brooklyn Rail. Cox's latest, Searchers 2.0 is a "microfeature." Cox explains. "A microfeature is made for $180,000 or less under the SAG low-low budget agreement, which actually was negotiated by one of the actors in the film. Sy Richardson was on the SAG committee, which created this new form where you literally can pay the actors a hundred...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
"Starting with Repo Man, director Alex Cox has successfully subverted mainstream culture (and the studio system) with several definitive cult films," writes David Wilentz, introducing his interview in the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail. Also, Two-Lane Blacktop "thematically...
Lux Lotus (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
The newest book I'm publicizing is out this week and the author is making just one appearance, this evening. Details pour vous: Screenwriter and novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, who cut a legendary swathe across the Hollywood mainstream of the '70s and...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
This has nothing directly to do with comics but this brilliant piece by Eric Alterman in The New Yorker is one of the best things we’ve ever read about the internet, and how internet news is changing not only how the publishing business is run, but how society processes information: Taking its place, of course, is [...]
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
I started "Movies You Should Buy" (now called "Movies You Should Own" because I belatedly realise it rhymes with Alex Cox's old BBC2 film strand, Moviedrome ) with The Satan Bug . Lovely "killer virus" movie that – probably the first. But there was a bigger and better "killer virus" film to come, one that marked the end of many of the trends The Satan Bug seemed to start – or at least coincide with....
