On Desire in Heated Rivalry
Friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson has a fantastic analysis on desire in Heated Rivalry in Taiwan’s Wenshan Review. Read “On Choosing ‘Or’: A Situated Response to Heated Rivalry” via PDF here.
“Humor Is A Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters”
At Roger Ebert.com, Marya E. Gates has a great conversation with John Waters. Read it here.
“Another Scene: Placing Fantasy in Two Vietnamese Gay Films, Part I”
At Asian Movie Pulse, friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson writes about gay male fantasy in Vietnamese film: “The English title for Hot boy nổi loạn (Vũ Ngọc Đãng, 2011), ‘Lost in Paradise,’ reflects the protagonist’s fantasy of Ho Chi Minh City as an chance to live as […]
“Second Run: Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974”
At The Movie Sleuth, the Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner writes about Kazuo Hara’s Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Japan, 1974). “In his autobiography Camera Obtrusa, Kazuo Hara speaks candidly about his obsession with pulling out and filming the most intimate parts of a person. He is not […]
The Projection Booth: Wild Boys (2017)
The Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner joins Mike White and Kyler Fey to discuss Bertrand Mandico’s The Wild Boys. “A fever dream of transgression and transformation, the film follows five privileged boys who rape and murder their literature teacher—then are spirited away by a mysterious sea captain to the […]
Judge John Hodgman + Monét X Change
Monét X Change has a case on Judge John Hodgman’s podcast! “Andy says he and his fiancé Monét X Change have an adorable meet-cute story. But Monét says that this meet-cute is meet-fake: it DIDN’T HAPPEN. Who’s right?” Listen here.
The Cultural Gutter 