The Making of We Bare Bears
On the fifth anniversary of We Bare Bears, Daniel Chong talks about making the show.
“60 Minutes on Christopher Reeves as Superman”
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on Christopher Reeves and Richard Donner’s Superman (1978). “The movie feels like a case of an entire production rising to the level of its lead actor, who happens to be playing the biggest square in the galaxy, a guy who would rather […]
“Gaslighting in Sweetheart“
At SyFy Fangrrls, Stephanie Williams writes about Justin Dillard’s Sweetheart (2019). “The horror genre can be a powerful vehicle to tell the struggles of marginalized groups of people. When these stories are created by the very people who know these struggles in their everyday lives, the impact is […]
“The Best 75 Hong Kong Films of the 2010s Postmortem”
Friend of the Gutter Kozo at LoveHKFilm have updated their list of the best Hong Kong films of the 2010s with the full list, “stats + whatever.” “So after LoveHKFilm.com does one of its long-winded ‘BEST OF’ lists, we usually follow up with a belated final post with […]
What Becomes a Legend Most?
Bernard Rose’s Clive Barker’s Candyman is an intensely 1990s film. Characters smoke a LOT inside public places. A senior professor, Philip Purcell, refers to our main character Helen (Virginia Madsen) and research partner/Black Best Friend trope Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) as “my two most beautiful graduate students” and there […]
Hobbes & Me
That time Rafael Casal and Daveed “Lafayette” Diggs were Calvin and Hobbes in a webseries. “With tousled hair and a striped T-shirt, Casal himself plays Calvin. Rapper-actor Daveed Diggs, now renowned for originating the roles of Lafayette and Jefferson in Hamilton, portrays Hobbes, donning striped pants and a […]
The Cultural Gutter 