Free Criterion Week 2025!
We’ve been meaning to promote this Free Criterion Week schedule, well, all week. But there’s still time. So if you didn’t know, Criterion is offering a week of free films streaming online. Read more here.
Shaw Brothers Film Library!
Celestial pictures has been uploading films to a new YouTube Channel–and there is an amazing array of offerings! Watch them all for free in beautiful transfers here. Make sure to check back for new films, too.
“The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction”
On Wednesday, February 19th at 6pm ET, you can attend an online event–The Black Fantastic! “Award-winning SF authors Tananarive Due, Victor LaValle, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah join andré carrington, editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, for a conversation about genre, influence, and the fascinating and phantasmagoric […]
Livestreams of Kung Fu, Karate, Kaiju, Jackie Chan, Kamen Rider, and Sonny Chiba!
Shout Factory is hosting a crazy number of livestreams on YouTube right now via TokuSHOUTsu! Pick your poison here.
“The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers”
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
“Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification”
Cory Doctorow has more to say about enshittification. “So what’s enshittification and why did it catch fire? It’s my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can […]
The Cultural Gutter 