Thor and Cap!
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White posts his 400th post on his Virtues of Captain America blog AND he talks Thor on Across The Bifrost: The Mighty Thor Podcast!
“Video Game Moments in Real Life”
Komazawa Isolation have a series of videos recreating videogame moments in Tokyo. They have the Yakuza walk and run down. Watch them here!
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies–The Body Genres in Ti West’s X and Mimi Cave’s Fresh
Horror, like porn, is meant to evoke a physical reaction. They, alongside melodrama, form the trio of genres which are described as “body genres” by my favourite media theorist, Jenna Stoeber*. Stoeber argues that the body genres evoke emotional reactions of “fear, sadness, or arousal” that spill out […]
“Why so many mythological monsters are female”
At Smithsonian Magazine, Nora McGreevy writes about gender and mythological monsters. “Monsters reveal more about humans than one might think. As figments of the imagination, the alien, creepy-crawly, fanged, winged and otherwise-terrifying creatures that populate myths have long helped societies define cultural boundaries and answer an age-old question: […]
The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing
The Gutter’s own Carol recreates some scenes from The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can see them here.
Stephen Colbert + Critical Role = Dignity
Stephen Colbert plays D&D with Critical Role to benefit Red Nose Day. You can watch here. He has a scar and his hair is mussed… and he brought Narsil and Sting!
The Cultural Gutter 