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 […]
Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The second is that, with few exceptions, aliens are jerks. At least in the first season, Space: 1999 (UK, 1975-77) captures malaise, chronic low-grade depression and inertia […]
Friend of the Gutter Erin Horáková’s piece on “Kirk Drift” is always timely. Why do people remember Captain James T. Kirk differently than he was presented in Star Trek (1966-9)? And what are the implications of that kind of “remembering?” “Whatever gave you the idea that Kirk was […]
At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must […]
Hey, it’s some things Carol Borden did in 2024! See them here.
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
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