Category: Notes

Midnight Madness 2024 Line-up!

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival starts this week on September 5. Check out the line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program and make your genre film plans accordingly! See it here. Make sure to click through here for Midnight Madness Programmer Peter Kuplowsky’s video about this year’s […]

Empathizing with the Alien

The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick thoughts on Zach Clark’s The Becomers (USA, 2023). “People of Earth, we have been warned repeatedly that the aliens are coming, that they covet our Earth, our resources and often our women. We have been warned that they are already […]

Every Frame A Painting is Back!

Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou have returned with a new video essay at Every Frame A Painting! “What do you do when you’ve got two actors, a bunch of dialogue, and only enough time to get one camera angle? Consider one of the oldest tools in the filmmaking […]