Projection Booth Special Report on Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
Our friends at the Projection Booth have a special report this week on the documentary, Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD.
On The Heroic Breed: An Interview with Mark D. White
Mild-mannered Mark D. White has a double life. By day, he’s a professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. And, well, also by day, he’s a writer on superheroes, philosophy and what we can learn about […]
Thoughts on Manic Pixie Dream Girls
“Manic Pixie Dream Girls aren’t problematic because they’re quirky and girly; that audiences only see them as such is often indicative of shitty male leads who are intent on making women fit into their fantasies. Perhaps we adopt these tendencies while watching films too, and maybe it is […]
Kimberly Lindbergs on Picnic At Hanging Rock
Friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs writes about Picnic at Hanging Rock for Streamline. “In Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), viewers are reminded again and again of the “venomous snakes and poison ants” that populate the Australian outback. Despite these repeated warnings, the reptiles and insects […]
The Feminine Critique Stocking Stuffers
Just in time for New Year’s Day it is ALL the Feminine Critique’s “Stocking Stuffers” mini-episodes are available for your listening pleasure. “Do you hear what I hear? Public domain holiday songs playing over montages, black pumps stomping through Canadian conference rooms to make deals that will destroy […]
“Rogue One: Darth Vader is a Scary Dude”
At our sister site Pornokitsch, Becky Chambers writes about discovering new facets of Darth Vader in Rogue One. “In the moment, excited though I was to see the biggest of the Big Bads, I didn’t find the scene necessary. It reminded us of the timeline and that Vader […]
The Cultural Gutter 