Guardian profile of Carl Hiaasen
choosing names for Japanese babies
"Is Jon Stewart being coy?"
Decent (though a bit superficial) overview of Asian cinema
20 years ago I would never have thought the New Yorker would cover Ed Wood's adult movies
Guy Maddin's precursors
"...seemed like whole swathes of America had suffered an epidemic of Tourette syndrome" or see for yourself some samples
Arabic reality TV?