I don’t have official permission from everyone at the Gutter to speak on their behalf, but I suspect I’m correct in saying that this publication’s position on a story about a roguish criminal taking the place of a goody-goody police officer of whom he is coincidentally an exact […]
Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
My experience is that the result of trying to replicate or revisit something you felt nostalgic about often ranges from puzzling to truly regrettable. Unless you know exactly what about it made you feel the way you want to feel again it’s likely it will be missing that […]
It would be pretty easy to say that by the sixth entry into the Final Destination franchise–leaving aside that we perhaps need to stage an intervention with this series’ creatives about the meaning of the word ‘final’–that the gimmick has run dry. What evolved, or rather, did not […]
Spoilers for a key event in the first half of the film; if you’re experienced with Bollywood, it’s nothing you wouldn’t predict. ~~~ I can’t explain why I decided to revisit this time-travel flop from 2008. Maybe 2025 is making me empathize with flops. Maybe I hoped I […]
There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
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