It’s the 2022 Japanese Film Festival!
The Japan Foundation is holding it’s annual Japanese Film Festival online this year and it is free! Check out the films here. (Thanks, G. G.!)
“Meat Loaf was a Butch Lesbian Icon”
At Slate, Evan Urquhart writes about Meat Loaf, Butch Lesbian Icon. “Gay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside of stereotypical categories for male/masculine and woman/feminine, but they often they make that step in one fairly predictable direction that we call androgyny. Androgyny is an aesthetic of […]
“Why We Need to Keep Searching for Lost Silent Films”
At Smithsonian Magazine, Fritzi Kramer writes about the importance of recovering lost silent films. Read it here. “These lost films have a resonance beyond film history. They might offer historians an opportunity to see historical figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Teddy Roosevelt. They might feature real […]
“Cap calls out Tony’s Self-Deprecation”
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about Captain America / Steve Rogers’ friendship with Iron Man Tony Stark in Captain America / Iron Man #2 at The Comics Professor.
The Projection Booth talks to Jeff Goldblum
Friend of the Gutter Mike White talks to Jeff Goldblum at The Projection Booth!
“Re-Routing The Horrific & The Black Subject In Film With Dianca London Potts”
At Graveyard Shift Sisters, friend of the Gutter Ashlee Blackwell considers the horrific, Black horror, the white gaze and the Black subject among other things in her profile of Dianca London Potts. “Dianca’s exemplary analysis makes her an exciting, sobering voice in pop culture criticism. This Bucks County, Pennsylvania dropout […]
The Cultural Gutter 