At the Verge, Adi Robertson writes about Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (2022) and copyright law. “I’m not sure exactly how long a copyright term should be to balance artists’ welfare with a cultural commons. I’m not sure exactly what a clearer, more generous fair use system should […]
Here’s the line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival! If you can’t make it to the screenings, make sure to keep an eye out for these films when the come to streaming or a theater near you: Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al […]
At Mic, Genevieve Fullan has some thoughts on Will Byers in Stranger Things. “I want a gamut of queer characters. I want victorious ones and tragic ones. I want them to be messy and imperfect and real. I want more queer narratives, so that every queer story doesn’t […]
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity watches Emily Harris’ Carmilla (2019). Read her thoughts here. (And you can read the Gutter’s own Angela’s piece on Carmilla here).
The Projection Booth Podcast’s Mike White hosts film critic Samm Deighan and the Gutter’s own Carol as we watch and discuss two film adaptations of Edogawa Rampo’s The Black Lizard. Friend of the Gutter Prof. Earl Jackson is interviewed about the films, Rampo, Yukio Mishima and drag and […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin has some thoughts about Out In The Ring (Canada, 2022) at Biff Bam Pop! “Ryan Bruce Levay’s documentary Out in the Ring is mostly a historical piece, running though the roots of queerness in pro wrestling from the 1940’s to today. If there was […]