At Asian Movie Pulse, friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson writes about Cheng Wei-hao’s Marry My Dead Body (2023)! “For years lesbian feminist film scholarship entailed archeological detective work, most notably excavating the subtexts of Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock 1940) and The Haunting (Robert Wise 1963). In peculiar reversal, […]
Udo Kier and Roger Corman share their Criterion picks! Kier shares adorable stories, too. You can watch them here and here.
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about Jason Yu’s new movie, Sleep (South Korea, 2023). “The function of sleep, one of the things that we all have in common, has been mined for horror since horror has existed. Whether it’s school janitors invading our […]
Organist Stephen Warner discusses the use and history of the pipe organ in movie theaters. “The way a theater organ is set up and laid out and mechanically disposed is quite different and providing a lot of different opportunities for how the organist uses it. It is actually […]
Generational trauma knows no particular race, ethnicity, or personal experience but there is a unique and uniquely bitter flavour when it sets itself on Black lives. In communities where violence can be routine but the lasting effects and the voids it creates are anything but, trauma is often […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their series on Bollywood’s female superstars with a look at Dimple Kapadia! “Some may argue that Dimple Kapadia doesn’t quite count as a superstar of Hindi cinema, but she’s so interesting that we couldn’t resist! […]