The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the ridiculous splendor of Morihito Inoue’s Hot Spring Shark Attack / Onsen Shark (Japan, 2024)! “Writer / director Morihito Inoue’s Onsen Shark is his first feature. It premiered at the 2024 Tokyo Shark Film Festival. For the record, I […]
Spoilers for a key event in the first half of the film; if you’re experienced with Bollywood, it’s nothing you wouldn’t predict. ~~~ I can’t explain why I decided to revisit this time-travel flop from 2008. Maybe 2025 is making me empathize with flops. Maybe I hoped I […]
New Scientist has a nice interview with Martha Wells about her Murderbot Diaries series, writing, neurodiversity, labor, gender, and robot & artificial intelligence stories from the beginning. “Martha Wells is the author of All Systems Red, the first novella in the Murderbot series. The book follows the adventures […]
Letterboxd has filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s1993 Star Wars film. “30 years ago, when I was 17 years old, I made a little Star Wars film. Using my family’s camcorder, I animated my toys frame by frame in stop motion, disguised my friends as Ewoks and stormtroopers, and edited on […]
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 […]
At Cinema Centric Podast, friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner discusses Criterion’s Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) and Godzilla films in general. “The CINEMA CENTRIC meet up for an episode with Michelle Kisner—also known as Robot Cookie—a powerhouse film critic, fearless freelance writer, champion of physical media, essayist with […]
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