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, […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch, The Namesake! “It will not surprise you to learn that we ADORE The Namesake, both book and film. Topics of discussion include: the Gangulys’ relationship, the universal American-ness of the story, Golgol’s imperfections, and Ashima’s […]
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 […]
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age tomfoolery, science fiction, horror, mysterious figures with antlers, UFOs, ghosts, cats with skulls […]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first essay ever published on the Cultural Gutter. Read Jim Munroe’s first piece at the Cultural Gutter, all the way from May 22, 2003! ~~~ Is it possible to have a pleasure circuit overload? “Girls are to be kept away from […]
Watch the entire animated saga of a Bunny and Cat in love in a segregated society in these music videos created by SamBakZa for South Korean ska band, Witches! Watch here.
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