* There’s a poster out there for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I got all excited about it when I first saw it, but then I realized that Indy looks bored on it and that it’s not really a great poster, it’s just great that there is a new Indiana Jones movie so as to necessitate the making of a poster, so I’m not gonna post a picture of it here. The end!

* I wasn’t aware that Scott Smith, the author of The Ruins, wrote the screenplay for its upcoming film adaptation. Those hopes just keep getting higher.

* Every comics blogger and their brother is linking to this sweet Wall Street Journal profile of cartoonist and fashion designer (!) Paul Pope. While it bobbles some of the facts of his career, as mainstream-media profiles of comics people are wont to do, it makes up for that by giving his trademark blend of style and substance a respectful hearing. (Nobody tell Dan Nadel!)

* Here’s a terrific interview with one of my favorite cartoonists in the world, Phoebe Gloeckner, about why she’s an artist. Watch it for the interview material, but keep your eyes peeled for a lot of seemingly digital art from Gloeckner that as far as I can tell has not been seen before, much of it appearing to come from her project about the mass unsolved murder of women in Juarez, Mexico. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)

* Aeron at Monster Brains spots some cool, creepy Mat Brinkman art at the website for Providence, RI’s Stairwell Gallery.

* Michael Haneke talks to EW about his English-language version of Funny Games in delightfully brusque take-it-or-leave-it terms, while another EW reporter was reduced to tears by the movie. I myself am trying to figure out whether I have the wherewithal to go to a movie theater and subject myself to it as opposed to watching it in the comfort of my own home (or a hotel room in the Standard on Sunset while half-lit, as was the case for me

with the German version). (Via Jason Adams.)

* It’s an Eve Tushnet twofer! Here’s her review of Shock Treatment, the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

* And in this post, she elaborates on the directors and subgenres she selected for her dream horror anthology film in response to the Horror Roundtable on the topic.

* From the quibble department: In Chris Butcher’s post lambasting, among other things, 52, it seems like he’s blaming editor Steve Wacker for the storylines that led to the imposition by editor-in-chief Dan DiDio of tie-in projects World War III and 52 Aftermath: Four Horsemen, even though Wacker was long gone from the book by then. I also think 52 in general was a rewardingly baroque reading experience where the personal obsessions of its writers made themselves manifest in a way that’s quite rare for superhero comics, and I enjoyed it a lot.

* Andrew Sullivan describes Hillary Clinton in horror-movie terms.

* Finally, here’s the new trailer for the ever-more-F-Zero/Mario Kart-esque Speed Racer. That’s entertainment! (Via Topless Robot.)

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