Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens
Hong Kong University is offering a free online course in Hong Kong cinema and you can still sign up for it.
Thoughts on Manic Pixie Dream Girls
“Manic Pixie Dream Girls aren’t problematic because they’re quirky and girly; that audiences only see them as such is often indicative of shitty male leads who are intent on making women fit into their fantasies. Perhaps we adopt these tendencies while watching films too, and maybe it is […]
Kimberly Lindbergs on Picnic At Hanging Rock
Friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs writes about Picnic at Hanging Rock for Streamline. “In Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), viewers are reminded again and again of the “venomous snakes and poison ants” that populate the Australian outback. Despite these repeated warnings, the reptiles and insects […]
The Feminine Critique Stocking Stuffers
Just in time for New Year’s Day it is ALL the Feminine Critique’s “Stocking Stuffers” mini-episodes are available for your listening pleasure. “Do you hear what I hear? Public domain holiday songs playing over montages, black pumps stomping through Canadian conference rooms to make deals that will destroy […]
10 Comics I Liked In 2016
It’s the end of December, that time of year when I share ten comics I like and haven’t written about (much) and think you might like, too. Once again, my list is full of Dynamite and Image comics. But this year, I didn’t notice till I was making […]
Bengali Noir
“Looking for film noir in India is to miss the point of Indian cinema altogether.”–Lalitha Gopalan, “Bombay Noir,” A Companion to Film Noir. (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013). There’s a lot about Calcutta—the center of the Bengali film industry, metropolitan capital of the state of West Bengal, […]
The Cultural Gutter 