“Gina Gershon’s Closet Picks”
Gina Gershon visits the Criterion Closet and gives Godzilla some love. Watch here.
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
Summer Fun Time Reading ’24
Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]
Sinister Visages: Paintings in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Everything In Latitude Zero Is Real
Everything is real and everything is possible in Latitude Zero. It is both a secret utopia beneath the sea where scientists and artists work in peace, waiting for the day when humankind will be ready to embrace Latitude Zero’s wonders, and a Japanese/American science fiction spectacle directed by […]
(Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
This year for Switcheroo Month I thought I would doubly switch things up by writing about something reputable–the films of Alfred Hitchcock–and something I would not usually write about–the films of Alfred Hitchock. Hitchcock is a filmmaker I struggle with. I recognize the quality of his work. I […]
Overlook 2024: Exhuma (South Korea, 2024)
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
The Cultural Gutter 