I’ve been thinking about what “disreputable art” means in a time when nerds, fans, and geeks have won a kind of cultural hegemony. It was different when the Cultural Gutter was founded in 2003, before Iron Man (2008) launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Force awakened, and the […]
Our friends at Podcast On Fire watch The Head Hunter (1982): “Chow Yun-fat as an assassin with a conscience falls in love with a girl (Rosamund Kwan), is hunted by another assassin… this does sound familiar but this is from 1982 and it’s called The Head Hunter. With […]
The Gutter’s own Alex MacFadyen has a playlist he made for Greta & Carson from A League Of Their Own at his critterlab.ca website. “A League of Their Own (Amazon Studios) is honestly like nothing else I’ve seen on tv and I suddenly found myself, in my late […]
At Monstrous Industry, the Gutter’s own Carol Borden writes a bit about Karen Shakhnazarov’s absurd satire/mystery, Zerograd / Zero City (1998). “Zerograd is a film that requires a lot of pondering–especially in its presentation of the implications of distorting history, personal and otherwise. And it requires some thought […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin writes about director David Lynch and Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Lynch / Oz (2022). “In Lynch/OZ, Phillipe enlists six filmmakers and reviewers to expound on Lynch’s fixation on Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz.It feels, in many ways, […]
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has another spooky season program, this time dedicated to the “Dark Side of New Korean Cinema.” “This series, bookended by two works of Park Chan-wook (Oldboy and Thirst), highlights the first decade of the 21st century to examine the complexities of Korean […]
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