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At Vulture, Sam Adler-Bell considers recent ‘Eat the Rich ‘ movies including The Menu (2022), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Glass Onion (2022), and Parasite (2019). “The true villains of our time are ensconced in cocoons of comfort, immune to accountability. They enjoy their lives; they are not burdened […]
Our friends at Podcast on Fire watch Wong Jing’s Magic Crystal (1986)! “Wong Jing makes his Wong Jing film, which means he steals from all other films but he lets his action director be the star of the show as well, in Magic Crystal from 1986. Also, actor […]
Rolling Stone interviews Joseph Galbo, the social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. “Galbo grew CPSC’s social media followers with an assortment of oddball memes that encouraged people to change their smoke alarm batteries and check for hot playground equipment. Galbo also began to develop an […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Jean-Denis Bonan’s A Woman Kills / La Femme borreau (France, 1968) and it is the most French movie that ever movied! Read more here.
“Host of the pod Sara Century joins us as a guest in this special episode! We talk about Sara’s new short story collection A Small Light and Other Stories from Weirdpunk Books, getting into Sara’s unique flavor of horror, what makes life so horrifying, the monsters we love […]
At Smithsonian Magazine, Jacquelyne Germaine writes about Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai. “Though the Netflix series introduces several mystical elements—including giant flying robots, magical armies and weaponized laser beams—the broad strokes of its depiction of the Honnoji Incident are historically accurate. Yasuke was an African warrior in the […]
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