Watching tv and movies as a trans guy, I often feel like a mythical creature. There are stories about me, but no one ever sees me. I’m like Bigfoot: shy and reclusive, rarely photographed, frequently demonized or misrepresented, and somewhat traumatized by human society’s reaction to me. I […]
Sachin Hingoo looks at a couple of ‘lost’ films and implores you to hold onto what you love.
They don’t make ‘em like Zach Clark’s The Becomers (2024) anymore. Maybe they never did, at least not all at once like this. The sci-fi is awed and hopeful; the horror is dyspepsia and Videodrome bodies; the comedy is full frontal deadpan; the romance is clear eyes, full […]
Being a Whovian was one of my principal personality traits from 1985 until about 2020, and though I have a very casual relationship with the show now–which is truly about me, not it, I am old and busy, guys–people still come to me with little offerings and thoughts […]
[somewhat spoiler-y] My current slot to publish at the Gutter falls just a day before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami, so I take this auspicious coincidence as a sign to bring forward another Indian snake film. If my research is accurate, the first Indian snake […]
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
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