At Asian Movie Pulse, friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson writes about Cheng Wei-hao’s Marry My Dead Body (2023)! “For years lesbian feminist film scholarship entailed archeological detective work, most notably excavating the subtexts of Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock 1940) and The Haunting (Robert Wise 1963). In peculiar reversal, […]
Friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner on Kinji Fukasaku’s 1968 film, Black Lizard! “Villains can be alluring and enchanting and, if executed correctly, can hold the audience in the palm of their hands. Kinji Fukasaku’s film Black Lizard (1968) has one such outlaw, Mrs. Midorikawa (Akihiro Miwa), AKA […]
“Watch as Bob the Drag Queen, Monét X Change, Alaska, and Jujubee join Brennan in the Dome for a wild, chaotic, and heartfelt adventure into the underworld in the premiere episode of Dungeons and Drag Queens.” Watch here.
The New Yorker has an excellent profile of writer Samuel R. Delany! “In the stellar neighborhood of American letters, there have been few minds as generous, transgressive, and polymathically brilliant as Samuel Delany’s. Many know him as the country’s first prominent Black author of science fiction, who transformed […]
“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.” “We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it […]
At the Criterion blog, Hillary Weston talks to Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall about the Lesbian classic, But I’m A Cheerleader (2000). “In celebration of But I’m a Cheerleader…I called up Lyonne and DuVall, who remain best friends and collaborators. The two actors talked with me about how they […]
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