“Awkward Vintage Japanese Movie Monster Posters”
Please enjoy this gallery of Japanese monster posters. (Thanks, Colin!)
“The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop”
“Rappers, ranked by number of unique words used in their lyrics.” See the chart and the analysis at The Pudding.
“La Mariana Sailing Club: Honolulu’s Last Old School Tiki Bar”
The Gutter’s own Keith has a mai tai at Honolulu’s La Mariana Sailing Club. “At first you might think you’ve taken a wrong turn. Somewhere between the H1 and Nimitz Highway, you must have missed something, because here you are, closer to the airport than the beach at […]
“Scary 1970s British Public Information Films”
Please enjoy–or really stare in horror–at these 1970s British PSA films. “Sensible children–I have no power over them…”
I Was Once a Man!
In October of 2003, when I was employed as a writer for Toyfare magazine, I was tasked with writing an article pitting the two iconic toy lines against each other in a battle for overall supremacy. Hey, it’s the sort of things we did back then. I went […]
“Anamorphic Adventures in Hong Kong”
David Bordwell writes about Shaw Brothers Studios particular use of the widescreen format in film. “The Shawscope blazon opens onto a world of one-armed swordfighters, beautiful woman warriors, and kung-fu masters with very long white eyebrows. Without denying the peculiar pleasures of these sagas, we can peer behind […]
The Cultural Gutter 