At The Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace catch up with what they’ve been watching and more! “Werewolves! Malls! Soul survivors! We’ve got lots of it and more on this very special catchup. On the docket: Riverdale, Class of ‘07, V.C. Andrews’ […]
Even among the wild personalities on offer in professional wrestling, Japan’s Maki Itoh is, in all ways, an aberration.
At the Criterion blog, Imogen Sara Smith writes about Noir Westerns. “Westerns cover a lot of territory. Dramatizing the most romantic of American myths, they also give form to the darkest inversions of those myths. The genre that celebrated rugged pioneer values and civilization’s conquest of the wilderness […]
Lagueria Davis’ Black Barbie: A Documentary (USA, 2023) explores “Black female respresentation through the history of Black Barbie. Through intimate access to a charismatic Mattel insider, Beulah Mae Mitchell, Black Barbie delves into the cross section of merchandise and representation as Black women struggle to elevate their own […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews’ Hundreds of Beavers and loved it. “Directed by Mike Cheslik and co-written by Cheslik and Tews, Hundreds of Beavers is a worthy follow-up to their previous film, Lake Michigan Monster (2018). So many things are […]
The New Yorker has an excellent profile of writer Samuel R. Delany! “In the stellar neighborhood of American letters, there have been few minds as generous, transgressive, and polymathically brilliant as Samuel Delany’s. Many know him as the country’s first prominent Black author of science fiction, who transformed […]
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