At The Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace catch up with what they’ve been watching and more! “Werewolves! Malls! Soul survivors! We’ve got lots of it and more on this very special catchup. On the docket: Riverdale, Class of ‘07, V.C. Andrews’ […]
At the Criterion blog, Imogen Sara Smith writes about Noir Westerns. “Westerns cover a lot of territory. Dramatizing the most romantic of American myths, they also give form to the darkest inversions of those myths. The genre that celebrated rugged pioneer values and civilization’s conquest of the wilderness […]
Lagueria Davis’ Black Barbie: A Documentary (USA, 2023) explores “Black female respresentation through the history of Black Barbie. Through intimate access to a charismatic Mattel insider, Beulah Mae Mitchell, Black Barbie delves into the cross section of merchandise and representation as Black women struggle to elevate their own […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and Jeffrey X. Martin share their picks from this year’s Fantasia Film Festival! “Looking through the lineup for this year’s Fantasia is like looking through the work of my favourite artists and unearthing new treasures. New works from the Adams Family (not that […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews’ Hundreds of Beavers and loved it. “Directed by Mike Cheslik and co-written by Cheslik and Tews, Hundreds of Beavers is a worthy follow-up to their previous film, Lake Michigan Monster (2018). So many things are […]
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