A beautiful woman, wearing scarlet from her lips to her toes, drives alone through the city. She’s relaxed, but distracted, as though she’s looking for something, frequently taking her eyes off the road to notice people gathering on balconies overlooking the street–people wearing dark glasses. Languidly, the camera […]
You can always run away screaming. There are higher and lower price tags on that depending on the situation, and mostly I never do, but I find it comforting to know that I could. I often find myself yelling at the characters in horror movies to do exactly […]
This is not a spoiler-free essay. There is a lot of discussion of plot elements. If you like to go into a film blind, you will want to wait to read this piece. ~~~ These are the stories of the robots: They resent us for creating them. They […]
As Max Castor and Anthony Bowens, a tag team known as The Acclaimed, step through the ropes of the AEW ring, thousands of fans–many male and statistically very likely to be cis-hetero-identifying–sing in unison to the tune of the main riff from “Seven Nation Army” by the White […]
Today, Shimako Sato is probably best known as the writer-director behind several entries in the Unfair series, a Japanese action franchise in the mold of Die Hard, but in 1992, she was a new filmmaker, recently graduated from London Film School, and, like any true artist, inspired by […]
Hera Pheri (1976) does weird things to my sense of time. It is so up my alley that I have rewatched it repeatedly while also wishing it were still out there waiting to be discovered anew. I want to keep it in a perpetual state of having been […]
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The Cultural Gutter 