Neil Blomkamp has been sharing concept art for his unproduced Alien film. “The idea behind the film is that everything from Alien 3 didn’t happen and it would have followed Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley & Michael Biehn’s Hicks infiltrating the Weyland Yutani corporation. Just that little synopsis and the […]
Chronicles of Harriet profiles Black African artists who work in speculative fiction: Loyiso Mkizse; Tobe “Max Spectre” Ezeogu; Setor Fiadzigbey; and the artist of Kiro’o Games.
At Paste Magazine, Maddy Myers has some interesting thoughts on the “male gaze,” the “sub gaze,” Dommes, gender, sexual desire and video game character Bayonetta. “‘[M]ale gaze’ seems like an unkind oversimplification as to who might be doing the ‘gazing’—let alone the identifying—and perhaps evidence that gaming desperately […]
The Book Design Blog has a gallery of Valeria Brancaforte’s hand-printed books.
Actor, dancer, choreographer, director, designer and artist Geoffrey Holder has died. Besides his iconic role as Baron Samedi in Live And Let Die (1973), he directed and designed the costumes for the 1975 stage production of The Wiz, performed as the Metropolitan Opera Ballet’s principal dancer in 1955-6, […]
Every fall I write for the official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs of the Toronto International Film Festival. And I usually try to find a guest writer to cover me here at the Gutter, write a piece ahead of time or even, sometimes, just totally wander out […]
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