The Losers: An Oscars Podcast

Friend of the Gutter and Pet Cinematary host Wendy has a new podcast, The Losers:  “A podcast that takes a look at the LOSERS of cinematic history, the people who lost at the Academy Awards. Hosted by Shay & Wendy, two unqualified women, twenty years apart in age.” […]

Remaster the Possibilities

The great critic Roger Ebert, who comfortably reduced many a nuanced vision to thumbs-up or thumbs-down, invited a lot of angry mail in the years leading up to his death with his insistence that videogames could never be art. And I have always found that opinion, much like […]

Watching Annihilation with The Feminine Critique

Our friends Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace watch Annihilation (2018) at The Feminine Critique. “Christine and Emily…step into the shimmer, delving deep into Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi thinker Annihilation. That’s after a full hour of past watches, including a spoiler-filled argument over the merits of Happy Death Day […]

Hindi Horror Comics!

Friend of the Gutter Aditi Sen writes about Hindi horror comics for Open! “In the last decade, the horror genre in India has undergone major changes. We want our ghosts to be layered and conscious socio-politically, and fear needs to go beyond horror tropes and find new avenues. […]