The Gutter’s own Carol Borden really enjoyed the campy, lo-fi body horror of The Cramps: A Period Piece at Fantastic Fest. Here are some quick thoughts. (There are more thoughts on it at Monstrous Industry): Brooke H. Cellars’ The Cramps: A Period Piece (USA, 2025) is a period […]
Heather Wixson has a fantastic essay on The Substance (2024). “And look, at this point, there has been so much said already about how and why The Substance is such a powerful movie. There have been plenty of great thinkpieces that have discussed how Fargeat’s second film explores […]
Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on the history of Tarot cards and you can read it here. (Thanks, Kate!)
Four Color Sinners has an excellent conversation with writer Claire Noto on her career in Hollywood, at Marvel and her erasure from Red Sonja. “Clair Noto is a fascinating, brilliant, force of nature and touched with creative genius. It is my privilege to share now her side of […]
Friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando won an Emmy for her KPBS podcast, “Stripper Energy: Fighting Back From the Fringes!” “Do you know what stripper energy is? Let three women who worked as dancers at Les Girls Theater in San Diego expose you to the naked truth about […]
In an Autostraddle excerpt from the excellent collection of essays, It Came From The Closet, Carmen Maria Machado considers Jennifer’s Body, bisexuality and the fluidity of identity and relationships through time. “It’s happened to me several times now: someone who doesn’t know me very well asks me about […]
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