Use It or Lose It
Sachin Hingoo looks at a couple of ‘lost’ films and implores you to hold onto what you love.
More Human Than Human
They don’t make ‘em like Zach Clark’s The Becomers (2024) anymore. Maybe they never did, at least not all at once like this. The sci-fi is awed and hopeful; the horror is dyspepsia and Videodrome bodies; the comedy is full frontal deadpan; the romance is clear eyes, full […]
Love in the Age of Doctor Who
Being a Whovian was one of my principal personality traits from 1985 until about 2020, and though I have a very casual relationship with the show now–which is truly about me, not it, I am old and busy, guys–people still come to me with little offerings and thoughts […]
It’s Snake Festival Time! Nagina
[somewhat spoiler-y] My current slot to publish at the Gutter falls just a day before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami, so I take this auspicious coincidence as a sign to bring forward another Indian snake film. If my research is accurate, the first Indian snake […]
Murder, Surrealism, Women’s Rage, and Les Abysses
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
Iron Sharpens Iron in Robert Fowler and Rosalyn Drexler’s ‘Below The Belt’ (1980)
Below The Belt (1980) is a pro wrestling story like no other, that overcomes obstacles in front of and behind the camera to blur the lines between the fantasy and reality of women’s wrestling.
The Cultural Gutter 