Clones are pretty much always a problem. There’s rarely an unequivocally good reason for creating them, and even if there was it never works out the same way in reality as it did in theory. (Arguably it works out very well for the aliens in the 1978 version […]
Confession time: I’ve never been a big consumer of the live meta-commentary subset of horror, or live commentary on movies in general*. I very rarely turn on the director’s commentary on DVDs, and I can count on one hand the number of Mystery Science Theatre or Joe Bob […]
Did I choose to write about this film because it is currently on Netflix with subtitles and thus more available than hundreds of other things I might have selected? Yes. Does it have something to offer the Gutter reader other than availability? Absolutely. Amrapali (1966) is one of […]
Despite the fact that my kids and I share a YouTube account and my recommendations are completely ruined with the insidious algorithm pushing Minecraft content to me that I neither want or need, I still get the occasional pleasant surprise. When I first encountered Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart […]
April is switcheroo month at the Cultural Gutter, and this year we are once again turning our eyes upwards from our beloved gutter roots to gaze into the distance for a glimpse of art that is widely considered reputable. What I’ve noticed though, as I adjust my binoculars […]
For this year’s Switcheroo Month, I decided to write about a lesser known film by one of the most reputable directors around—Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Set in then contemporary mid-Twentieth Century Japan, The Bad Sleep Well is the story of Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) seeking […]
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