This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
At Slate, Isaac Butler writes about the GALA Committee’s In The Name Of The Place, an art project in which they literally placed activist art in the 1990s night time soap, Melrose Place. “Over Melrose Place’s fourth and fifth seasons, the GALA Committee wound up smuggling more than […]
At The New Yorker, Simon Abrams interviews filmmaker John Woo. “Woo talked about taking a break from Hollywood, his quest to make personal genre movies, and his enduring faith in friendship, onscreen and off.” Read more here.
The University of California–Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies (!!!) has a podcast where they talk about monsters called, The Show Where They Talk About Monsters! “Join host Mike Halekakis (Boom! Knowledge) and monster expert Dr. Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness) for […]
Wil Wheaton performs “William F*cking Shatner” with Paul & Storm at Largo. Listen here.
Summer is nearly upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere and it is, to say the least, an uncertain time. I don’t know what your plans are. Maybe a camping trip. Maybe the beach. Maybe you feel safe traveling for vacation. Maybe you’re just going to the park […]
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The Cultural Gutter 