Don Hertzfeldt is on YouTube!
Don Hertzfeldt has a new channel on YouTube and has started uploading all his animated shorts, including “Rejected” and episodes of World of Tomorrow! You can see them here. (Via Mx. Fee)
Serial Murder and Suburban Ennui in the August Underground Trilogy
August Underground (2001) is one of those films defined by word of mouth and rumors. When it came out, the internet wasn’t as all-encompassing as it is now; things were still spread manually, passed around in niche underground networks. The internet was still in its “wild west” phase, […]
Four Decades of the Guerilla Girls!
At Bullseye, Jesse Thorn interviews “Kathe Kollwitz,” a founding member of the revolutionary art collective, Guerilla Girls! “In 1984, a group of women started an art collective called the Guerrilla Girls. The group was created in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition: “An International Survey of […]
The Feminine Critique: “Julie & Julia & Julia Ducournau’s Titane!”
At the Feminine Critique Podcast, “in their quest to amp up some coverage of lady director movies, Emily and Christine find some common threads between 2009’s Julie and Julia (directed by Nora Ephron) and 2021’s Titane (directed by Julia Ducournau). Somehow it all makes sense.” Listen here.
Fatal Kisses, Leather Daddies, and Evil Tofu: Queer Coding in Video Games
This month I had a very serious article topic in mind, but everything in real life is so serious and difficult right now that I decided what was actually needed was something ridiculous. A friend of mine often goes to whatever is showing at the local discount cinema […]
“Chillers: Four Tales of Terror”
Listen to BBC Radio 4’s chilling 2002 adaptation of four classic tales, “Who Goes There?” (the basis of The Thing (1982) and The Thing From Another World (1951)); “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”; “Delta Sly Honey”; and “Corona.” Listen here.
The Cultural Gutter 