"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."

ALT: Q (John De Lancie) Trumpets Jean-Luc Picard

SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.

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There’s still some screenings today, but Fantastic Fest 2026 is over for me at least. I had a good festival this year. I didn’t get to watch all the films I hoped to, but it’s har…

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The journey from unfair to unjust is a twisted maze, one littered with false starts and dead ends; it’s also, significantly, the journey undertaken in Labyrinth, from childhood to adulthood, powerl…

I heard industrial pa-chunking before I even entered the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Across the street from the museum is the Ford Development Center, where Ford Motor Company does re…

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At Biff Bam Pop, Karen Shute and the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo have lived to tell about their final days at the Toronto Internatioal Film Festival! “Cut, print, and [insert every other…

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Friend of the Gutter Robert A. Mitchell’s coverage of Fantastic Fest 2026 continues with some thoughts on The Ones Who Grieve (France, 2026) and an interview with the film’s director Qu…

At Biff Bam Pop, Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham, Sanjay Rajput and the the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo watch even more films! Katharina Rabl’s Memories of a Forest! Matthew Rankin’s Ladies …