Great Lives: Patricia Highsmith
Director Jonathan Kent picks Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) for BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives. (Thanks, Kate!)
BBC Radio’s Lord of the Rings
Listen to BBC Radio’s 1981 adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings! (Thanks, Ian!)
Cinema Junkie suggests some Films to Watch during Quarantine
At KPBS, Beth Accomando interviews Jay Patrick about non-James Bond spy movies and Nora Flore about screwball comedies to watch during quarantine! (PS. They’re all friends of the Gutter, so’s you know).
Free Radio Drama from BBC 4!
BBC Radio 4 has made a whack of dramas available for your listening pleasure!
From the Archives: Loving the Alien: Superman and Masculinity
Superman’s greatest power is not his strength or heat vision, but his restraint and his theatricality both in restraining that power while pretending to fight as hard as he can and in passing as Clark Kent.
Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction Hoaxes
Sasquatches, Godzilla-like sea monsters, alien invasions, vampire squid – it’s April switcheroo month once again at the Gutter and I’m about to take you down a rabbit hole of hoaxes and truly strange things inspired by one of my favorite podcasts, Popular Science’s The Weirdest Thing I Learned […]
The Cultural Gutter 