The Robert E. Howard
United Press Association is A website catering to Howard scholars
, featuring such wonders as a complete listing of everything found on Howard’s bookshelves and critical articles like a comparison of Conan vs. Bambi.
Heroes of Dark Fantasy is a web site with sections for Conan, Elric, Kane and several other, less-well-known sword and sorcery protagonists.
Charlie Stross reviews Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon:
Most of “Avalon” is shot in sepia tones; indeed, one way of looking at it is that it’s a classic art-house middle-European subtitled art movie in which the characters spend the entire film angsting about the nature of reality between cigarettes. (And shooting things up with helicopter gunships, tanks, and giant robots — for this is Mamoru Oshii, after all.)
If you read Hebrew, see also Raz Greenberg’s review
It’s the cinematic version of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, as directed by Howard Hawkes, from a screenplay by Raymond Chandler, starring Humphrey Bogart, with Marlene Deitreich, Orson Welles, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as (obviously) Smeagol…
Andrew Rilstone: Will there ever be another series of “Doctor Who”?. Andrew is insightful as ever, for example explaining why Doctor Who and Star Trek were successful despite of the cheap special effects (because they’re not about special effects), or how Doctor Who is experienced more as a cultural phenomena then as a TV show (which relates to my own experience: I was fascinated by the character and the series, but saw very few of the episodes).
Yes, I’m loitering around his site waiting for him to write about the Two Towers…