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Charles Pappas’ Its A Bitter Little World is a tour through sixty years of the language of film noir. It’s also the sort of book that can be easily dipped into, every time providing another reminder of just how widespread and widely influential film noir has become. Or, as the author points out:

True noir changes with the hemlines, the TV shows, and the Billboard top ten. It Toyota’d out of the city and into the desert (U Turn, Red Rock West), zipped up a down jacket and mushed north (Fargo), rewound into the past (Miller’s Crossing, Chinatown, The Two Jakes, L.A. Confidential), fast-forwarded into the future (Blade Runner), microscoped The Joy of Sex cover to cover (Body Heat), and crammed the CliffNotes for French deconstructionists (The Usual Suspects, Memento). Its piano-key colors are now beetle blacks, lab-coat whites, gargoyle grays, tobacco-stain browns, and autopsy reds.

For as long as people continue to make films, people will continue to make film noir. This book is a timely reminder of why.

With all the hype in progress for Snakes on a Plane, the film about snakes on a plane, Let’s Go Retro are selling the t-shirt for the man that would never have to worry about snakes on a plane.

Resist the hype. Buy the t-shirt.

More Miyazaki goodness with a Totoro plant pot. Ideal for the green fingered movie buff, if such a person exists.

Hayao Miyazaki movies have not only entertained audiences all across the globe, but also teach the importance of the world of nature, how we need to treat the environment with delicate care. Now you can have these anime icons in your garden or windowsill with these acrylic sculpted planters approved by Studio Ghibli. Each planter is preassembled and prepainted in astounding detail bringing the characters from your favorite Ghibli movies to live. This particular planter is of Totoro from “My Neighbor Totoro” peering inside a giant open nut where you can keep your plant, forever guarded by the forest sprite.

To coincide with the release of this Summer’s blockbuster movie Superman Returns, Let’s Go Retro now have a limited edition Superman Returns Movie Cell Presentation available. Each presentation comes framed & features hand selected original movie studio 35mm film, quality photographs, engraved nameplates and a Certificate of Authenticity.

Wherever you go this summer, be sure to pack your PlayStation Portable and then you, too, can enjoy Red Dwarf - Smeg Ups, which was released in the UK yesterday.

Hosted by Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and in a version never released on DVD, this package includes outtakes from Series IV to VI, as well as the Series VII Smeg Ups.

In the 1960s, producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray started to build a career out of importing a unique collection of horror films from Mexico into the US.

From monster movies with a clear debt to the 1930s Universal films to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the “Wrestling Women” - recently referenced by Jack Blacks Nacho Libre - these films offered good camp fun and, inevitably, inspired a cult following.

Now Doyle Green attempts to place Mexploitation films in their historical and cultural context, and provides close textual readings of a representative sample, showing how they can be seen as important documents in the cultural debate over Mexico’s past, present, and future.

There’s pictures, too.

A collection of six films from British studio Tigon.

The films are:

• The Beast In The Cellar
• Blood On Satan’s Claw
• The Body Stealers
• Haunted House Of Horror
• Virgin Witch
• Witchfinder General