Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast discuss V. I. Warshawski (1991)! “Noirvember 2025 keeps rolling as Mike teams up with author Dahlia Schweitzer and artist Rahne Alexander to crack open V.I. Warshawski (1991), Jeff Kanew’s glossy take on Sara Paretsky’s groundbreaking detective. Kathleen Turner commands the screen […]
Enjoy A.J. and Carmela’s award-winning, stop-motion short film, “A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian” right here. It has an accurate depiction of Lesbian flirtation.
Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
Rachel Elspeth Gross interviews Daniel Lawson about costuming Carrie Preston as the always remarkably dressed Elsbeth Tascioni in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and, in particular, the newish howcatchem mystery series, Elsbeth. “The crash and clash of colors and patterns on screen could easily become chaotic or […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick thoughts on Zach Clark’s The Becomers (USA, 2023). “People of Earth, we have been warned repeatedly that the aliens are coming, that they covet our Earth, our resources and often our women. We have been warned that they are already […]
The New Yorker has some images of pages from Emil Ferris’ long-awaited My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics, 2024)! Behold them here.
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
The Cultural Gutter 