19 Years of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books!
Celebrate the 19th anniversary of the essential romance site, Smart Bitches Trashy Books here! Leave a comment! Have fun with the community! Check out some articles while you are there! More here.
It’s the Shamely Awards 2024!
Our friends at Cinema Shame celebrate the Third Annual Shamely Awards! “James and Allan host the Third Annual First Watch Shamely Awards where they pick their favorite Films, Actors, Screenplays and Songs from whatever the hell they watched in 2023. Along the way they’re joined by some special […]
Immortal Beloved
When I was eight years old, my mother showed me a stuttering laserdisc version of Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) and changed my life. (Good one, Mom.) Formerly a fraidy cat, I fell in love–with Dracula, with horror, with Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó Lugosi. I also fell in love […]
Filmi Ladies on Lust!
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their series on the Seven Deadly Sins with two films on the theme of lust! “Desire that makes you act in very bad ways: it’s happened to everyone. Specifically, it’s happened to the characters in Maqbool […]
“The Current Debate: The Best Films of 2023”
At Mubi Notebook, Leonardo Goi discusses the lists of best films of 2023! “Maybe that’s how we ought to treat film lists in the end: as a way to snorkel, however imperfectly, into the medium and the industry at large. For all its existential crises, cinema looked a […]
Abadon Speaks?!
RJ City interviews the nonbinary wrestler Abadon the Living Dead Girl about eating souls and the social construction of gender! Watch here.
The Cultural Gutter 