Pop Culture – The CASA Blog Network

Place, Memory & Myth: Some Reflections on September 11th

Posted on Friday 9 September 2011 by Jon Reades

Unless you resolutely avoid reading the news then it can hardly . have . escaped . your . attention that we’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Since I was living in New York at the time of the attacks and watched the towers collapse from my roof in Brooklyn Heights, this …

Built Environment, Front Page, memory, place, Pop Culture, september 11th, terrorism

Clan of the Cave Bear: Herzog goes 3D

Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2011 by Jon Reades

The last sentence I ever expected to hear was “Let’s go see the 3D Werner Herzog film…” [Vanity Fair] Like everyone who hasn’t managed to steer clear of a theatre entirely for the past couple of years, I’ve seen a few 3D films — Coraline, Up and, I must confess, Avatar — but Werner …

Art, Built Environment, cave, dreams, film, Front Page, herzog, Pop Culture, review, stone age

Twins terrorise New York

Posted on Tuesday 15 July 2008 by Jon Reades

I have to admit loving this one — what a way to mess with people’s heads. The background is here. And for a higher-quality version than the one on YouTube, watch this.

humour, Pop Culture

Kill the narrator… please?

Posted on Saturday 21 June 2008 by Jon Reades

I’m not sure I’ve ever watched a horror film where I actually hoped that the main characters — and most especially the cameraman — would die. And the longer I watched this rubbish Cloverfield the more painful I hoped that &#8230…

film, Pop Culture