Sin City 2, with a promised cast list that includes many of the participants in Sin City, including some who were dead at the end of it, plus Danny Trej, whose failure to appear in the first film was probably due to some clerical error, is due to arrive in 2010. Once again, it is based on Frank Miller's moody black-and-white comics stories. But when we saw Sin City back in 2005, we knew that its stylized look and post-pulp feel reminded us of something, and that something has just turned up on YouTube: Love Me Gangster!, a short video movie made back in the 1980s for the British anthology arts show Alter Image. God knows if either Miller of Robert Rodriguez ever saw it. But we'd like to imagine that some part of them would still be able to appreciate how much shorter and less inexpensive this thing is while managing to appear a not-so-distant cousin to their magnum opus, even if both Miller and Rodriguez are long past the point of seeing "short" and "inexpensive" as something to shoot for in their own work.