“William F*cking Shatner”
Wil Wheaton performs “William F*cking Shatner” with Paul & Storm at Largo. Listen here.
The Projection Booth watches The Long Walk
Friend of the Gutter Mike White interviews filmmaker Mattie Do, director of the sf / time travel / thriller / horror movie set in Laos, The Long Walk (Laos, 2019)! “Mattie Do discusses her career from being a ballet instructor to suddenly directing horror features in Laos.” Listen […]
“It’s Not Easy Hating Evil”: The Bad Sleep Well
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 […]
“Ad-hoc Block: Dystopian Worlds and the War for Advertising”
“Today, we’re policed by ads. Targeted with products and services by what a surveilling algorithm “thinks we’ll like.” But people usually know when they are being sold to and when they are being solicited for money. It is not always so clear, however, when a company is seeking […]
Filmi Ladies watch Ghostly Romance!
Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch ghostly love stories and talk about them on the Filmi Ladies podcast! “Duvidha (1973) and Paheli (2005): two very different films from the same source material, both fantastically successful in their own ways.” Listen and watch here.
“Socialist Revolution & Inflatable Furniture: Time of Roses (1969)”
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Risto Jarva’s Time Of Roses (Finland, 1969). “Risto Jarva’s Time of Roses is a swinging 1960s and socially activist vision of the future set exactly 50 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 2013. There is swinging lounge music, inflatable […]
The Cultural Gutter 