At SyFy Fangrrls, Stephanie Williams writes about Justin Dillard’s Sweetheart (2019). “The horror genre can be a powerful vehicle to tell the struggles of marginalized groups of people. When these stories are created by the very people who know these struggles in their everyday lives, the impact is […]
Friend of the Gutter Kozo at LoveHKFilm have updated their list of the best Hong Kong films of the 2010s with the full list, “stats + whatever.” “So after LoveHKFilm.com does one of its long-winded ‘BEST OF’ lists, we usually follow up with a belated final post with […]
That time Rafael Casal and Daveed “Lafayette” Diggs were Calvin and Hobbes in a webseries. “With tousled hair and a striped T-shirt, Casal himself plays Calvin. Rapper-actor Daveed Diggs, now renowned for originating the roles of Lafayette and Jefferson in Hamilton, portrays Hobbes, donning striped pants and a […]
Screen Editor alex MacFadyen has gone undercover on a Gutter mission of vital importance. He’ll be back soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this essay on Don Draper, Marty Hart and willpower. ~~~ Awhile back I had one of those moments where I read something that made all […]
Guernica has a nice interview with Ursula Le Guin by Alexandra Chee: “Ursula K. Le Guin answers some questions about war, witches, realism and teaching herself to write as a woman.”
At Horror Home Room, Alishya Almeida writes about class, horror and “the abject” in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019). “In a cosmos ruled by capitalism, the ways in which wealth and labor interact become a matter of haunting. Bong’s path of storytelling highlights the unequal and unjust experiences that […]
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