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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) A bored New Jersey housewife's fascination with a kooky character she's read about in the personals leads to her becoming the woman’s doppelganger.

Find Desperately Seeking Susan for free on Tubi and Hoopla, and for rent at the usual places! #CineJanes tubitv.com/movies/30692...

Then at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT, the Gutter's own Carol hosts tonight's #CineJanes presentation of Susan Seidelman's classic, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette--and featuring Giancarlo Esposito!

Tonight at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT, join #DriveInMob as SHAWGUST begins with Operation Lipstick (1964), starring the legendary Cheng Pei-Pei! Find the link at www.driveinmob.com and skeetalong with the hashtag #DriveInMob

I hope sociologists don't see that.

Also, post volume is a terrible metric.

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SHAWgust begins tonight! #driveinmob

Not that I'm keeping score or anything, but I'm never disappointed by the overall facile, thoughtless, baseless contempt of people who wield the word "overrated" as if it's a legitimate term of criticism.

@chrisszego.bsky.social Hey, is your email still the same as it was way back when?

It Must be Bunnies! Making something adorable terrifying generally has the potential to be either shocking or hilarious. Sometimes it’s intentionally hilarious, and sometimes it’s just funny in its failure to be shock…

The Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social knows the truth. It. Must. Be. Bunnies. culturalgutter.com/2025/08/07/i...

Just a nice shot of a pensive Fishburne who--as it says on the label--is deep undercover, after witnessing a rat, played by Roger Guenveur Smith, get a brutal beatdown from Det. Sgt. Chano, er Gregory Sierra.

Now watching Bill Duke's Deep Cover on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. There's a special place in my heart for early-1990s Laurence Fishburne, especially King of New York, Boyz n the Hood, What's Love Got to Do with It, and now this film. I particularly like the way Duke frames him in each sequence.

“We’re So Screwed”: Some Thoughts on Farscape, Heroes and Bad Plans Rygel: This is madness.Crichton: Could be genius, Sparky. You know there’s a very fine line between the two.Rygel: Geniuses make plans. Crichton: “That’s your plan? Wile E. Coyote…

The Gutter's own Carol Borden writes about John Crichton's Big Bugs Bunny Energy in Farscape! (Among other things) culturalgutter.com/2025/07/31/w...

@willmckinley.bsky.social I saw a Clark bar. There were also 5th Avenues and Zagnuts.

Episode 672: Johnny Guitar (1954) Western Month continues with a look at Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar. Released in 1954 the film stars Sterling Hayden as the titular Mr. Guitar.

Remember Nicholas Ray on his birthday with our JOHNNY GUITAR episode: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/02/epis...

Sessue Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki in THE DRAGON PAINTER

“We’re So Screwed”: Some Thoughts on Farscape, Heroes and Bad Plans Rygel: This is madness.Crichton: Could be genius, Sparky. You know there’s a very fine line between the two.Rygel: Geniuses make plans. Crichton: “That’s your plan? Wile E. Coyote…

"Outsiders, underdogs, weirdos and outcasts trying their scrappy best...always appeals to me. It’s not surprising that Farscape resonates with me right now. We are, in the words of astrophysicist and astronaut John Crichton, so screwed." culturalgutter.com/2025/07/31/w...

“Fantasia 2025: For the Love of Film in Kenichi Ugana’s ‘I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn'” The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo is attending Fantasia this year. Here’s his thoughts on Kenichi Ugana’s I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn! “A romantic comedy…

The Gutter's own Sachin Hingoo on Kenichi Ugana's I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn! culturalgutter.com/2025/08/06/f...

Sure, why not. Couldn't hurt.

Japanese Women Don't Need "Saving" From Host Clubs, Kabukicho Expert Says - Unseen Japan A Kabukicho nightlife expert says the current debate over host clubs is misinformed and based on a disdain for women.

Not everyone approves of the new law. We spoke with a researcher into Japanese nightlife who argues that, while there are abuses that need to be curbed, the new law treats women as powerless objects in need of "saving."

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“Fantasia 2025: For the Love of Film in Kenichi Ugana’s ‘I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn'” The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo is attending Fantasia this year. Here’s his thoughts on Kenichi Ugana’s I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn! “A romantic comedy…

The Gutter's own Sachin Hingoo on Kenichi Ugana's I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn! culturalgutter.com/2025/08/06/f...

It seems like a good August watch!

@theasabin.bsky.social @1an0maly.bsky.social @hollyeh13.bsky.social @mimikramer.bsky.social My plan is for Desperately Seeking Susan tomorrow unless there are any concerns.

“We’re So Screwed”: Some Thoughts on Farscape, Heroes and Bad Plans Rygel: This is madness.Crichton: Could be genius, Sparky. You know there’s a very fine line between the two.Rygel: Geniuses make plans. Crichton: “That’s your plan? Wile E. Coyote…

"Outsiders, underdogs, weirdos and outcasts trying their scrappy best...always appeals to me. It’s not surprising that Farscape resonates with me right now. We are, in the words of astrophysicist and astronaut John Crichton, so screwed." culturalgutter.com/2025/07/31/w...

We are being escorted out of the art museum, but we have not been told why they just keep saying you know why.

"Surely, there will be many stock images evoking the spirit of Mauritz de Haas' Nocturne with Lighthouse, and this is the ideal inspiration for an ATV safety image."

When we talk about federal-local cooperation, this is what we mean. This is what ideal cooperation looks like.