The art of creating characters in video games is neither objectively new, nor even new to me. I’ve been messing around with video game character creation suites for decades, though I certainly never thought of it as art. I think the most common use for these creation tools […]
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Genndy Tartakovsky at the Vulture! “Animator Genndy Tartakovsky is one of our greatest living action directors — a student of Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, and George Lucas who creates family-friendly, populist work that can be described as both terrifying and adorable. Take, for example, […]
Our friends at The Feminine Critique talk about a bunch of series and films. So many! “We’re back with STUFF! It’s a big fat catchup episode where Christine and Emily dive into their recent watches. We’ve got horror sequels (Child’s Play 3, Evil Dead Rise, Nightmare On Elm […]
Hey, Slashfilm has an excellent series, “Movies are Gay,” about films that are gay, explicitly or not! It starts with Point Break (1991) and continues from there with movies like: The Perfection; Hard-Boiled; Young Soul Rebels; Batman &Robin; Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and more. Start here […]
Our friends at the Feminine Critique Podcast consider the career of Sigourney Weaver! “ “On this special edition episode, Christine and Emily try something new. It’s a deep dive into the career of one of our favorite actors, the one and only icon Sigourney Weaver! We talk Ripley, […]
This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Cultural Gutter. Author and game developer Jim Munroe founded The Cultural Gutter and posted his first essay here on May 22, 2003. In 2004, Jim invited comic artist and critic Guy Leshinski to join the Gutter. They created a manifesto […]
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