It’s the 2022 Japanese Film Festival!
The Japan Foundation is holding it’s annual Japanese Film Festival online this year and it is free! Check out the films here. (Thanks, G. G.!)
“Meat Loaf was a Butch Lesbian Icon”
At Slate, Evan Urquhart writes about Meat Loaf, Butch Lesbian Icon. “Gay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside of stereotypical categories for male/masculine and woman/feminine, but they often they make that step in one fairly predictable direction that we call androgyny. Androgyny is an aesthetic of […]
The Feminine Critique likes Lasers
On the Feminine Critique, Emily and Christine talk about a lot of films that have lasers and you can listen here! “We’re back, and as usual, we’ve brought a boat load of stuff to talk about! A TITANIC load, you might say. Just kidding: DID YOU KNOW CHRISTINE […]
Interview with Guillermo Del Toro and More!
Director Guillermo Del Toro and “key collaborators” talk about making Nightmare Alley (2021) . “We spoke to del Toro and some of his key creative collaborators about how it all comes together: from the earliest moments of conception, right through to completion.” (Thanks, Kate!)
Sundance and Slamdance are online!
The Sundance and Slamdance film festivals are both online starting today! Get your tickets and/or festival pass here (Sundance) and here (Slamdance).
On Imperator Furiosa
Hear that rumbling? Furiosa is coming down the road. Not in 2022 or in 2023, but everyone’s favorite imperator returns in 2024. Furiosa (2024) is a prequel to George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). I am ambivalent because I am tired of origin stories, and particularly the […]
The Cultural Gutter 