Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity has created a meditative, divinatory short film Nephomancy: Scrying with Clouds. “Nephomancy: predicting the future by reading portents in the clouds The Old English text comes from the Exeter Book riddles 1 & 3. Filmed in the Howff Cemetery, Dundee, Scotland in […]
At Rogue, Cass Marshall has some thoughts about gaming in a prison of our own making. “I don’t think mindless devotion and praise is a particularly healthy way to handle any kind of media. On the other hand, being a gamer means being part of a greater culture, […]
Abigail Nussbaum continues her “Great Tolkien Reread” with The Hobbit. “Tolkien’s celebrated affinity for worldbuilding means that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings clearly take place in the same invented world, but it’s precisely at those points that the two works overlap that the differences between […]
Attention Math Nerds: Dan Smith considers the maths of Young Sherlock Holmes with some “high-grade nerdery” at The Conversation. “I appreciate my dissection of the maths is high-grade nerdery. Most people will have watched the series without pausing it like I did to look at the maths and […]
The journey from unfair to unjust is a twisted maze, one littered with false starts and dead ends; it’s also, significantly, the journey undertaken in Labyrinth, from childhood to adulthood, powerlessness to power.
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch “Toaster, the new release on Netflix with Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra, Archana Puran Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, and others in a great cast stuck a misfiring machine that somehow never really goes […]
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