YA with NSFW Titles
Things You Should Learn collects a gallery of young adult book covers with new, not safe for work book titles added by an anonymous artist.
“Cutter’s Way and the Great Tradition of the Film Eyepatch”
At the Guardian, Anne Billson gives John Heard his due and writes about eyepatches in film. “One-eyed, one-legged, alcoholic Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter is the sort of avenging obsessive who, by rights, belongs up there in the pantheon alongside Travis Bickle, Sam Quint or Khan Noonien Singh. In […]
L’Eclisse: The Living and the Dead”
At Streamline, friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs writes about Michelangelo Antonioni and George Romero. “While recently rewatching Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (aka The Eclipse, 1962) I received the sad news that George Romero had died. The celebrated Italian art house auteur and the American director behind the hugely […]
Demon Seed: Rudraksh
Rudraksh (2004) is a famously terrible Bollywood movie. Since I first started watching Hindi films in 2005, I have read multiple blog posts gleefully detailing its shortcomings, and an Indian comedy duo made further mincemeat out of it in an episode of their recent series “Pretentious Movie Reviews”: […]
George Romero Changed Filmmaking Forever
At the AV Club, Katie Rife writes about George Romero’s impact on filmmaking. “But to merely call Romero the father of the modern zombie, as immense of a contribution as that is, is to underestimate his influence. In fact, Romero himself would tell any interviewer who asked throughout […]
“Sparks and Tarts: With Romance Your Mileage May Very…And That’s Okay.”
At Women Write About Comics, Jessica Pryde writes about finding the romance that’s good for you: “Did you try a romance once and put it down, never to pick up another? Did you ever wonder why that was? Maybe the plot didn’t work for you or the writing […]
The Cultural Gutter 