Italian Film Cultural Blogathon
Read all the posts in Nitrate Diva’s Italian Film Culture Blogathon–including one about Danger: Diabolik by The Gutter’s own Carol.
Xanadu’s Persistence of Memory
I watched Xanadu on HBO dozens of times in the early 1980s. My obsession also included the soundtrack, which I listened to on a Walkman while attired in scarves, leotards, ruffled skirts, and legwarmers. Sadly, my skills at ballet, tap, and jazz did not translate into roller skating, […]
Why Does Mars Need Women?
Diane Dooley writes about Mars’ need for women and ways to subvert it.
Jane Eyre is a Darker than People Think
“[T]he mainstreaming of Jane Eyre as a vanilla romance, or even as an exploration of a woman’s pure, uncompromising, and uncomplicated (and religious! and feminist!) integrity, says all kinds of things about our inability to speak honestly about violence and sex.” More on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, consent, sex […]
“The Misery of Celebrity Crushes”
Eloquently Twisted shares her tale of True Celebrity Crush Love!
“The Bullying of Chatelaine Harris and the Wisdom of Neil Gaiman”
“So Charlaine Harris’ last Southern Vampires book, Dead Ever After, is out May 7. Except it’s kind of out now, which is why the interwebs are exploding. Some random asshat got their claws on an early copy, which is sneaky enough, but then posted the ending online, which […]
The Cultural Gutter 