At the Projection Booth Podcast, friend of the Gutter Mike White discusses La Haine (France, 1995) with guest co-hosts Lumi Etienne, Judith Mayne and special guest Ginette Vincendeau. “Tension simmers and explodes in La Haine (1995), Matthieu Kassovitz’s electrifying portrait of disenfranchised youth in the Parisian banlieues. Mike […]
At PBS’s It’s Lit, Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes talk about the Grand Dame of Science Fiction, Octavia Butler. “If you are a fan of science fiction a name you should be familiar with is Octavia E. Butler (cough especially if you watched our telly award-winning Afro-Futurism video […]
The Projection Booth podcast celebrates the films of Whoopi Goldberg with a whole month of Whoopbruary: Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986); Burglar (1987); Fatal Beauty (1987); and, Theodore Rex (1996)! Listen to the whole shebang here.
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 […]
There is an excellent piece on Christopher Nolan by Will Lloyd at The New Statesman. “Everyone knew the pecking order at Haileybury and Imperial Service College. The hierarchy was built into the boarding school’s dormitories. Long wooden-floored barracks, under low ceilings, without any decoration. Two parallel rows of […]
Friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner has an excellent piece on It Follows (2015) at The Movie Sleuth with some thoughtful discussion of white flight, Detroit and Southeast Michigan. Read more here.
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