19 Years of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books!
Celebrate the 19th anniversary of the essential romance site, Smart Bitches Trashy Books here! Leave a comment! Have fun with the community! Check out some articles while you are there! More here.
10 Things I Liked in 2023
It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked, alphabetical list of some of the things I liked and a […]
The Feminine Critique: <i>Christmas Full of Grace</i>
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden joins Emily Intravia to discuss the wonders and delights of the Brazilian Christmas romantic comedy, Christmas Full Of Grace (2022)! “Break out your winter hot pants! It’s a warmer holiday trip down south with Brazil’s Christmas Full of Grace, a wacky holiday romcom […]
The Feminine Critique’s Stocking Stuffers 2023!
It’s that time again–time for Stocking Stuffers at the Feminine Critique Podcast! Listen to Emily, Christine and a veritable cozy blizzard of cardigan clad guests warming their hands on empty mugs of hot cocoa! Episode one is up here, and keep up with the Christmas romance movie viewing […]
“Peek-a-BOO! Eros: Marry My Dead Body (Cheng Wei-hao, 2023)”
At Asian Movie Pulse, friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson writes about Cheng Wei-hao’s Marry My Dead Body (2023)! “For years lesbian feminist film scholarship entailed archeological detective work, most notably excavating the subtexts of Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock 1940) and The Haunting (Robert Wise 1963). In peculiar reversal, […]
Filmi Ladies: Lootera
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss, Lootera! “Vikramaditya Motwane’s Lootera has turned 10, and we are as eager to discuss it as an art thief is to find an unsuspecting zamindar! Everything has held up beautifully: the casting, the performances, the music, […]
The Cultural Gutter 