Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits
An armorer has some suggestions about balancing functionality, character and story in “fantasy armor and lady bits.”
ActionFest 2012 Trailers
Trailers for movies playing at ActionFest 2012: Solomon Kane; Manborg; Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines; The Raid; True Romance; Wu Xia; Dragon Eyes; Let The Bullets Fly; A Gang Story; The Lost Bladesman; God Bless America; Goon; The Aggression Scale; The Day; Headhunters; Transit; Sinners […]
“Battle Royale and Japanese Nationalism”
This Japanese Life provides some historical context for Kinji Fukasaku’s film, Battle Royale–including an incident from Fukasaku‘s own life as a student drafted into a munitions factory, writer Yukio Mishima and the Hagakure: “Since the film deliberately omits much of the novel’s WW2-inspired alternative reality, I look at Kitano […]
“The Unsung Female Game Designers of Japan”
7 Japanese women responsible for “some of the greatest games ever to ever grace the store shelves.”
Master of Infinite Kung Fu
I always have trouble writing about comics that I think are good, just excellent and existing in their own seamless perfection, which means that here at the Gutter I don’t always write about the comics that I love most. I want to do credit to them and save […]
3 Reviews of The Hunger Games
In three reviews, Miguel Rodriguez, Peter Gutierrez and Darren Franich consider what was missing from the film’s adaptation of The Hunger Games book–poverty, class and complicity to start.
The Cultural Gutter 