The Projection Booth gets MATURE
Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss adult films all month! Listen up here!
Sara Century’s Best Sci-Fi Films (on US Netflix)!
At IGN, friend of the Gutter Sara Century recommends a bunch of science fiction films you can watch on Netflix (US). “There are always going to be films that skip through the cracks, and that’s why it’s good to seek out recommendations. For a little help navigating that […]
I’m Your Man (2021): Becoming A Person Who Wants Things
This is not a spoiler-free essay. There is a lot of discussion of plot elements. If you like to go into a film blind, you will want to wait to read this piece. ~~~ These are the stories of the robots: They resent us for creating them. They […]
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 […]
The Cultural Gutter 