Spookoween 2021: 31 Days of Horror, Part II
Spookoween 2021 continues with more films from the Nightstream Festival. There’s also cats, vampires, demons, draculas, more women and their daughters in the woods who you should really just leave...
View Article10 Things I Liked in 2021
It’s annual list time where I share things I liked in the last year. I usually try to write about things I haven’t written about before, but the world is not what it was and perhaps next year I will be...
View ArticleFantasia 2022: What To Do With The Dead Kaiju (Japan, 2022)
This year I was fortunate enough to be given press credentials for the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival. I will be writing about what I watch here and at the Cultural Gutter in Notes and in a...
View ArticleBookclub for Masochists: Public Domain Supereroes
Matthew Murray kindly invited me to discuss public domain superheroes on the Bookclub for Masochists: A Readers Advisory Podcast. I snuck in some pulp heroes stuff and Matthew did a great job...
View ArticleBecoming Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing first shambled into my heart with Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette and John Totleben’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing #24-64(DC, 1984-7). At a time when I was reading mostly alternative comics,...
View Article10 Things I liked in 2022
I know it’s a bit late for a list of things I liked in 2022, but here at the Gutter we do what we want. And like Angela Englert and Sachin Hingoo, I am taking care of some end of year business....
View ArticleSummer Fun Time Reading ’23
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age...
View ArticleFantastic Fest 2023: Sri Asih: The Warrior (Indonesia, 2023)
Where America’s first superhero was Superman, Japan had Golden Bat, and the Philippines had Darna, Indonesia’s first superhero was Sri Asih, created in 1954 to stand up for the downtrodden and protect...
View ArticleCarol Goes to Fantastic Fest 2023
Pull on your good lounging pants, hang that lanyard around your neck, and get yourself a latte, because I was lucky enough to go to this year’s Fantastic Fest with my (remote) press credentials and I...
View Article10 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,...
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