Lost MST3K Episode: Star Force: Fugitive Episode!
MST3K fan Arthur Putie has found, digitized and shared a new episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 from its KTMA days! Watch Star Force: Fugitive Alien II here.
RoboCop rises in Detroit!
The RoboCop sculpture looks like it will finally be erected in Detroit. “After more than a decade of waiting, Detroit’s crowdfunded RoboCop statue has finally secured a permanent location and is expected to be unveiled by the end of 2025.” Watch here. (Thanks, Mike!)
Thomas the Tank Engine Superfans!
At the Guardian, Stuart Jeffries writes about Brannon Carty’s documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine (USA, 2025) and the fans who love the show. “It celebrates the men (and the fans Carty interviews are overwhelmingly male) who have found friendship, community and creativity […]
“The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction”
On Wednesday, February 19th at 6pm ET, you can attend an online event–The Black Fantastic! “Award-winning SF authors Tananarive Due, Victor LaValle, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah join andré carrington, editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, for a conversation about genre, influence, and the fascinating and phantasmagoric […]
“The Entire Vic Mignogna Story: The Face of Anime’s Dumbest Culture War”
Kaylyn Saucedo / MarzGurl launches a documentary on Youtube. “Perhaps the closest thing you’ll ever get to a documentary on the subject of Vic Mignogna, his sexual harassment allegations, his lawsuit, and the culture war that sprung up around him. A history of a subculture within millennial-aged anime […]
“The Nice-ification of the Hobby Shop”
So we don’t necessarily feel this way–to say that these shops felt tremendously unwelcoming for some of us here at the Gutter is an understatement–but it’s an thoughtful piece and people’s sense of loss and nostalgia is real. “In the last few months of 2022, I started playing Magic: […]
The Cultural Gutter 