Cookie Monster is Professional
In these outtakes from a news report by Cookie Monster and John Oliver, we see just how professional Cookie Monster is.
“The Rise of Skywalker: Memorabilia without Memory, a Misunderstanding of Hope”
Jeannette Ng thinks about The Rise of Skywalker, The Last Jedi and “memorabilia without memory.” “The central plot of Rise concerns Rey’s parentage which was very satisfyingly resolved in The Last Jedi. They were no one in particular, not great heroes nor villains. Along with the rest of […]
“Some Thoughts on The Last Jedi”
Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey has a lovely piece on The Last Jedi. “The mythic cliffhanger of The Force Awakens is what I needed in 2015 at the end of a brutal year. The grumpy, startling conclusion of that cliffhanger is what I needed in 2017. Stories, […]
Wayne Barlowe’s Aliens
The Internet Archive has Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials, and you can look at it here!
“When Empathy comes from the Last Place You’d Expect.”
At Polygon, Eirik Gumeny writes about Red Dead Redemption 2 and life with a terminal illness. “I actually learned to avoid characters I might relate to when I was growing up with cystic fibrosis, as they never seemed to exist as people. They were instead used as props, […]
“Rennosuke and the Three Light Sabers”
Watch a Kabuki interpretation of Kylo Ren’s story, “Rennosuke and the Three Light Sabers” right here. Rennosuke stars famed Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo XI as Rennosuke / Kylo Ren. (Ichikawa has also performed in films and you might remember him from Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Over […]
The Cultural Gutter 