Trailers from Hell: The Savage Eye!
At Trailers from Hell, Kier-La Janisse talks about The Savage Eye (1959)! Watch here.
Filmi Ladies: Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam!
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins consider the Bengali and Hindi versions of the same film. “We travel to colonial Bengal and encounter the idle rich, a bejeweled beauty, a perennially bemused bumpkin, and a sparkly, sprightly lady–and of course a crumbling haveli […]
UAPs, NHIs, and the Essential Need for Cosmic Mystery
This month’s Guest Star is Jeffery X Martin. Read more of Jeffery X Martin’s words about music, movies, and professional wrestling at Biff Bam Pop! ~~~ “Whether we like it or not, the most important scientific problem we’re going to face in the last third of this [20th] […]
“The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from The Twilight Zone”
At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must […]
Tamiya Iemon is the Worst: Ghost Stories of Yotsuya
Tamiya Iemon is the absolute worst. I have seen multiple adaptations of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, from Keisuke Kinoshita’s Shinshaku Yotsuya Kaidan / Yotsuya Kaidan Part 1 & Part II (1949) to Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 adaptation, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan / The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959) to Takashi Miike’s […]
“Charles Schulz’s Funny Things: An interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus”
The Comics Journal has an interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus. “In 2023, a comics biography of Charles Schulz was published by Top Shelf, written and drawn by two Italian comic book artists: writer Francesco Matteuzzi and artist Luca Debus. The book was published directly in the […]
The Cultural Gutter 