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Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Rolling in the Deep with Moby-Dick

By Carol on April 15, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Minoru Suzuki: Wrestling’s Greatest Bastard and a Land of Contrasts

By Guttersnipe on April 8, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Columbo: The Undeserving Rich

By Angela Englert on April 1, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Shakeela

By Beth Watkins on March 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Carol goes to Hong Kong Filmart!

By Carol on March 18, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Campus Conjuring

By Guttersnipe on March 11, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Moby-Dick Marathon!

By Guttersnipe on January 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Moby-Dick marathon is this weekend! Get all the information and watch here.

Not Because She is Dead, But Because She is Cold

By Angela Englert on January 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In The Hunger (1983), Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) and husband John (David Bowie) are rich and young and in love and have absolutely everything: an inexplicably labyrinthine estate in the heart of Manhattan, yawning, idle days spent on books and orchids and cellos and nights strobing full of […]

Parasite (2019), Fried Chicken and King Castella Franchises

By Guttersnipe on January 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Parasite, the first foreign language film to win the Academy Award for best picture, and the first to be condemned in public by a U.S. president, is a story of poverty and inequality. The movie, which is also the first Korean movie to win an Oscar, is centered […]

“Why Classic Crime Fiction was Obsessed with Fashion”

By Guttersnipe on January 2, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

At Crime Reads, Tara Moss writes about Philip Marlowe, fashion and her own crime fiction. “Marlowe (and his creator) notice the clothes, the hairstyle, the gloves and what they signal about the person wearing them. This is no mere description, not simply the delightful painting of an aesthetic […]

So Many Things are Entering the Public Domain in Today

By Guttersnipe on January 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain lists some of the works of art that just entered the public domain today! “A culture is a continuing conversation between present and past. On Public Domain Day, we all have a ‘green light,’ in keeping with the Gatsby […]

Build Me a Creature, Fast as You Can

By alex MacFadyen on December 31, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

‘Tis always the season for puppets, if you ask me, but Gremlins is officially holiday seasonal. I watched it again for the first time in many years and there were a lot of things I had forgotten, including the scene where Gizmo stunt drives a Barbie Dream Car […]

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The Cultural Gutter is a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. The site is updated every Thursday afternoon. Carol Borden, alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Angela Englert probe science fiction, draw out the best in comics, stare deeply into the screen, sink their fangs into horror, dally with romance, speedrun their brains on videogames and explore so much more. Our Guest Stars shine here.

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