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10 Things I liked in 2025

By Carol on December 18, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Reflections of a Reflection in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on December 11, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Gutterthon 2025: Grand Slam!

By Guttersnipe on December 8, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

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

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

Hat on a Hat on a Dinosaur: Jurassic Overkill and Instant Aliens

By Critterlab on November 27, 2025 • ( 5 Comments )

From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock

By Carol on November 20, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

El tren fantasma / The Ghost Train (1926)

By Guttersnipe on March 12, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Filmoteca Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has restored Gabriel García Moreno’s pulp adventure film The Ghost Train (Mexico, 1926) and given it a great new score. And you can watch it here for free! (Thanks to the excellent Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently!)

“Filmi Ladies: Watching the Rainbow: Gray”

By Guttersnipe on March 11, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their “Watching the Rainbow” film series with the color gray! “Before you dismiss gray, think about all it can represent: ambiguity, aging sadness, life-giving rain, sublime and enduring stone, mysterious or cooling shadows, or even the […]

“License to Shill: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover”

By Guttersnipe on March 10, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At The Hollywood Reporter, Benjamin Svetkey writes about Amazon’s acquisition of and plans for James Bond. “‘Don’t let anybody else screw it up,’ Cubby Broccoli warned his children before he died. ‘You can screw it up if you want to, but don’t let other people screw it up.’ […]

“The Adventure Zone vs Romeo vs Juliet”

By Guttersnipe on March 9, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At The Adventure Zone Podcast, the McElroy family and the characters of the Adventure Zone vs Dracula take on Shakespeare! Don’t know who any of those people are, that’s okay, it’s still fun! (Knowing who William Shakespeare is really helps, though). Listen here.

“Titillating Tyranny in James Ashcroft’s The Rule Of Jenny Pen”

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

At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin has some thoughts on The Rule Of Jenny Pen (New Zealand, 2024). “Ultimately, Ashcroft’s film is about how bullying, left unchecked, can morph into tyranny and while such a story is usually portrayed between younger people on a schoolyard, it […]

The Beast Mortos: A Gentlebull of Asskickery

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 6, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

AEW’s The Beast Mortos walks the line between charming, good-looking academic and feral were-bull.

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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, Angela Englert, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, and Beth Watkins 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 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, Mastodon, and Bluesky as @culturalgutter. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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