At Asking The Wrong Questions, Abigail Nussbaum has some thoughts on The Marvels (2023). “The Marvels is the first movie that makes me think the MCU might actually be over. Not because it’s bad—it is, in fact, quite charming and enjoyable, solidly mid-tier Marvel, and near the top […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the new documentary about the world of carpet manufacturing, Carpet Cowboys (USA, 2023)! “Emily McKenzie and Noah Collier’s documentary Carpet Cowboys looks at the world of carpeting—especially the carpet used in big, almost anonymous spaces. If you have ever […]
At The New Yorker, Inkoo Kang writes about turbulence in Hollywood. “To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that […]
At Jacobin, Alex Press breaks down what the writers’ and actors’ strike in Hollywood as all about. ‘“There used to be people running these companies who thought of themselves as stewards of the industry,” said the WGA’s Mike Schur, reflecting on what led to the strikes. “They’d think, […]
BBC Archives shares a 1991 report on “Nintendo and the Japanese Software Boom”: “Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American […]
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it […]
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