At The Harvest Maid’s Revenge, Rowan Lee shares some excellent thoughts on “folk horror” and the limits of generic definitions. “The more I know about folk horror, the less I understand about how it works. Maybe those of us who spend our time thinking about it are just […]
At Polygon, Patrick Gill talks about Wrestling Empire. Even if you’re not interested in wrestling or games, you might want to watch. “Wrestling Empire is a one-man project that reflect the weird world of wrestling better than any AAA wrestling sim. Wrestlers are an itinerant warrior class who […]
At Autostraddle, Steff Rubino interviews Marya E. Gates about her new book, Cinema Her Way. It’s a great interview and if you are interested in film and film writing, you should probably read it! “I did make a concerted effort to make sure that I had women from […]
At Mubi Notebook, Leonardo Goi discusses the lists of best films of 2023! “Maybe that’s how we ought to treat film lists in the end: as a way to snorkel, however imperfectly, into the medium and the industry at large. For all its existential crises, cinema looked a […]
S. J. Perelman rereads Tarzan of the Apes in Library of America’s story of the week! “Between October 1948 and October 1953, Perelman wrote twenty-two reviews of books and silent films that had been popular during the first quarter of the twentieth century, including such cringeworthy fare as […]
Filmmaker, film historian and friend of the Gutter Prof. Ashlee Blackwell’s students have a research blog and you can check out all the interesting ideas about women in horror here!