This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Cultural Gutter. Author and game developer Jim Munroe founded The Cultural Gutter and posted his first essay here on May 22, 2003. In 2004, Jim invited comic artist and critic Guy Leshinski to join the Gutter. They created a manifesto […]
Hey, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and Carol Borden have both written a bit about Fugue, director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s follow-up to the much beloved, The Lure (2014)! Read Sachin’s swell review here and Carol’s piece here.
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Karen Shakhanazarov’s Assassin of the Tsar! A 1991 Soviet-British co-production starring Malcolm McDowell and Oleg Yankovsky! Read it here.
The Gutter’s own Carol watches Michelle Garza Cervera’s Huesera and liked it! “Huesera: The Bone Woman (Mexico-Peru, 2022) was not what I expected. It’s Queerer and more Punk. From the trailers and stills I had expected it to be about pregnancy and the traps of domesticity. I had […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Jean-Denis Bonan’s A Woman Kills / La Femme borreau (France, 1968) and it is the most French movie that ever movied! Read more here.
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Karen Shakhnazarov’s Zerograd (1986). “The film stars Leonid Filatov as Aleksei Varakin, he’s from a Moscow Mechanical Plant and comes to a small town to meet with a man about air conditioners. He soon finds himself in an absurdist nightmare where […]
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