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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Apocalypticism Now: Cries Of Ecstasy, Blows Of Death (1973)

By Guttersnipe on July 2, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Still Keeping It Cozy: The Coziest Upcoming Games of 2026 and Beyond

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on June 25, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Blood Geysers and Biopunk: The Gory Films of Yoshihiro Nishimura

By Michelle on June 18, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Little Detective That Did: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!

By Beth Watkins on June 11, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Summer Fun Time Reading ’26

By Carol on June 4, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Don’t Sleep on Simon Glassman’s ‘Buffet Infinity’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on May 28, 2026 • ( 3 Comments )

Banned in the District: New Bad Brains

By Guttersnipe on December 7, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Local news in Washington, D. C. has a story about newly uncovered music from seminal punk band, Bad Brains. The story includes brief interviews and footage of Bad Brains performing. Watch here.

Peter Cushing’s Toy Collection

By Guttersnipe on December 6, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

British Pathé has a short from 1956 about Peter Cushing and his toy soldier collection here. And there is additional footage of Cushing playing with his collection here. (Thanks, Brian!)

“Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas!”

By Guttersnipe on December 5, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Hey, it’s Wallace & Gromit having a cracking Christmas–and you can watch here!

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

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

Guest Star and film scholar Earl Jackson continues his look at Kimi wa Koibito / You Are My Lover, a dizzyingly metafictional and genre-bending Nikkatsu film featuring an injured Japanese teen hearthrob’s return to the screen in a movie that references his injury and the incident that caused […]

A Book of Snowflakes

By Guttersnipe on December 3, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

The National Diet Library in Tokyo has scanned a copy of Sekka Zusetsu, an 1832 book of snow crystals observed and recorded by Doi Toshitsura. See them here!

Filmi Ladies: “Catching up and the MAFA Marathi Film Festival”

By Guttersnipe on December 2, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins cover a lot of ground! “Pitu attended the second NAFA Marathi film festival in San Jose, California and got to meet filmmaker and actor Amol Palekar, actor Dr Mohan Agashe, actress Ashvini […]

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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, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Michelle Kisner 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, grapple with wrestling, 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, and Mastodon. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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