Girl In The Night (Slovenia, 2026) is a portrait of late night life in small cities or in city neighborhoods that seem empty except for the quiet yellow glow of street lights. It’s a deadpan comedy about how we change ourselves, hoping to be who the people we […]
My next movie at Fantastic Fest 2026 was Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Donkey Princess (Chile / France / Netherlands / Uruguay / Germany) and I think I love it. Princess Diana (Antonia Giesen) grows up in a fairy tale world with her mother the Queen (Victoria Giesen) […]
At Fantastic Fest, the Gutter’s own Carol Borden girds her loins and travels into a hostile subterranean world with Mason DeRushie’s Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss (Canada, 2026)! I have missed sword and sorcery movies and fantasy that isn’t J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, and […]
As always at this time of year – festival season – but especially this year for personal reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way I’ve become used to consuming art and specifically film. A large amount of my movie-watching takes place at film festivals, which means […]
One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear […]
Once again, I am scheduled to post at the Gutter shortly before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami (August 17 this year), so once again I simply must bring another Hindi snake film to the table. If you are new to Hindi snake films*…welcome, it is […]
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