Hodgman & Friends: The Venture Bros. Special!
John Hodgman interviews Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick about working on The Venture Bros. and The Venture Bros.’ film, Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart (USA, 2024). Watch here.
“License to Shill: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover”
At The Hollywood Reporter, Benjamin Svetkey writes about Amazon’s acquisition of and plans for James Bond. “‘Don’t let anybody else screw it up,’ Cubby Broccoli warned his children before he died. ‘You can screw it up if you want to, but don’t let other people screw it up.’ […]
“The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)”
At Eruditorum Press, Elizabeth Sandifer writes about Neil Gaiman and Scientology. (Thanks, Bill!) “Gaiman has repeatedly drawn from his childhood in his fiction, however, and this paints a far darker picture. His earliest work to engage with it was Violent Cases, a 1987 graphic novel that begins with […]
Space 1999: Aliens Are Jerks
Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The second is that, with few exceptions, aliens are jerks. At least in the first season, Space: 1999 (UK, 1975-77) captures malaise, chronic low-grade depression and inertia […]
Filmi Ladies: Superstars: Urmila Matondkhar!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins focus on the career of Urmila Matondkhar! “This amazing all-rounder required looking at different kinds of films: of course Rangeela (1995) and Ek Hasina Thi (2004), but also Khoobsurat (1999), Dillagi (1999), and Pyaar Tune Kya […]
“Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift”
Friend of the Gutter Erin Horáková’s piece on “Kirk Drift” is always timely. Why do people remember Captain James T. Kirk differently than he was presented in Star Trek (1966-9)? And what are the implications of that kind of “remembering?” “Whatever gave you the idea that Kirk was […]
The Cultural Gutter 