Confession time: I’ve never been a big consumer of the live meta-commentary subset of horror, or live commentary on movies in general*. I very rarely turn on the director’s commentary on DVDs, and I can count on one hand the number of Mystery Science Theatre or Joe Bob […]
This month, we celebrate twenty years at the Gutter–fierce, gleeful, proud years during when we have dwelt richly on works that fall under the admittedly subjective rubric of disreputable media. I was a fan a long time before I was a contributor. But why was I a fan […]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first essay ever published on the Cultural Gutter. Read Jim Munroe’s first piece at the Cultural Gutter, all the way from May 22, 2003! ~~~ Is it possible to have a pleasure circuit overload? “Girls are to be kept away from […]
Did I choose to write about this film because it is currently on Netflix with subtitles and thus more available than hundreds of other things I might have selected? Yes. Does it have something to offer the Gutter reader other than availability? Absolutely. Amrapali (1966) is one of […]
This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Cultural Gutter. Author and game developer Jim Munroe founded The Cultural Gutter and posted his first essay here on May 22, 2003. In 2004, Jim invited comic artist and critic Guy Leshinski to join the Gutter. They created a manifesto […]
Despite the fact that my kids and I share a YouTube account and my recommendations are completely ruined with the insidious algorithm pushing Minecraft content to me that I neither want or need, I still get the occasional pleasant surprise. When I first encountered Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart […]
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