Cats On Film
Author Anne Billson has created a blog dedicated to cats and film called “Cats On Film.” I’ll leave you to your browsing. (Thanks, Kate!)
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
“Real Human Beings: The Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs and the New NPC
At Paste Magazine, Austin Walker writes about non-player characters, failure, autonomy, The Shadow of Morder and Watch Dogs: “And here, then, is the largest problem with these systems as they stand. No matter how many songs the Orcs of Mordor sing, no matter the desperation of [Watch Dogs‘] […]
Fiction at Pornokitsch
Have you been reading the fiction at Pornokitsch? You should. It’s pretty swell.
RIP, Jan Hooks
Actor and comedian Jan Hooks has died. The New Yorker has an appreciation. Kevin Nealon remembers Hooks at People.com. DListed remembers Hooks. The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter have obituaries. Time collected six of her Saturday Night Live sketches. Hooks talks about […]
“7 Ways Gilmore Girls Got Women Right”
“Gilmore Girls probably owes its failure to attract widespread acclaim despite running for seven seasons to the traditional cultural devaluation of female-driven genre media, whether it comes in the form of Young Adult fiction, women’s fiction, or female-led Hollywood narratives. Given that Gilmore combined elements of all of the above, it’s no […]
Two Perspectives on Gone Girl
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz notes: “What of Gone Girl as a parable of gender relations, one that eventually takes an ugly misogynist turn? I’ve heard these charges leveled, and they have merit. You’ll understand what I mean once you’ve seen the movie. At the same time, though, as we […]
The Cultural Gutter 