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10 Things I liked in 2025

By Carol on December 18, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

Reflections of a Reflection in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on December 11, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Gutterthon 2025: Grand Slam!

By Guttersnipe on December 8, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Disavowing the Story: On Kimi wa Koibito (You Are My Lover): Part Two

By Guttersnipe on December 4, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

Hat on a Hat on a Dinosaur: Jurassic Overkill and Instant Aliens

By Critterlab on November 27, 2025 • ( 5 Comments )

From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock

By Carol on November 20, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Japan’s Feminine Answer to RoboCop: Lady Battle Cop (1990)

By Guttersnipe on January 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This week Guest Star Michelle Kisner writes about Kaoru, tennis champion and Lady Battle Cop. Keep up with Michelle’s work on Instagram at @robotcookie. ~~~ RoboCop (1987) took the world by storm when it came out, spawning many knock-offs with varying degrees of technical expertise. While some of […]

Cinema Shame’s Film Noir Shamedown!

By Guttersnipe on January 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Nora Fiore, aka, Nitrate Diva, joins James Patrick to discuss film noir on Cinema Shame! “James and Nora Fiore (@NitrateDiva) talk the tenets of Film Noir and share their favorite first-time watches from Noirvember 2020.”

“How We Made Run Lola Run“

By Guttersnipe on January 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Franka Potenta talks about the making of Run Lola Run (1998). “The film required me to sprint across Berlin in a pair of Dr Martens. I have to get 100,000 Deutschmarks to my boyfriend Manni in 20 minutes, or he will be killed. We were shooting in August […]

Todd Stadtman at Teleport City

By Guttersnipe on January 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Remembering friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman with all his posts at Teleport City.

In Memoriam: The Words Got Stuck In My Throat

By Guttersnipe on January 14, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Author, musician, film critic and friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman has died. In his honor, this week we’re sharing a piece he wrote for the Gutter in 2013. ~~~ “If I had a hidden microphone inside of my heart/I would turn the power on/It would amplify my […]

“Hamilton: An Animal Crossing Musical”

By Guttersnipe on January 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s Hamilton in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!

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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, Angela Englert, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, and Beth Watkins 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. Thanks to Gutter aesthetic director Brian Kirby for all his swank art. Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the Cultural Gutter book. The Cultural Gutter's signature nail polishes, "Disreputable," and, "Disreputable 2: Hellcat," were created by Andrea Evans of MPZ Cosmetics. MPZ Cosmetics also teamed up with Dill McKinley to recreate the classic fragrance, Cornichon by Dill McKinley for Gutterthon 2021. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon, and Bluesky as @culturalgutter. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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