I Want My Mummy

This month we’re mixing it up at the Gutter, with the editors writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Chris Szego writes about movies. Well, mostly movies. I’m a total chicken. This means I don’t watch anything that smacks of horror.  In fact, I tend to […]

Poetry for the Videogame Age

Rock Paper Shotgun writes about the Locked Door: “Locked door, I hate you. “I hate the way you are resistant to knives, to guns, to sledge-hammers, to rocket-propelled grenades, to weapons that rewrite the very laws of physics, to dark unearthly magic, to punches that can knock a […]

RIP, JG Ballard

Two Ballard obituaries. One and an excerpt from two: “If there is a ­Ballardian presence in the cinema, it is Lee Harvey Oswald, sitting in a darkened Dallas movie theatre in 1963, watching the Audie Murphy picture War Is Hell, waiting for the cops to pick him up.”

Get Your Paranormality On

Bigfoot and Nessie too hyped for you? Tired of el Chupacabra? Looking for some new footage to analyze, filter and go through frame by frame?  Dogman footage (the Gable film) is digitally-enhanced and downloadable via Creative Commons. (Here’s two trailers for a special DVD set).