The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Demigod: The Legend Begins (Taiwan, 2022): Fellow disciples in the Cinematic World, if you are looking for martial arts fantasy to ignite your cranium, director Huang Wen-Chang’s Demigod: The Legend […]
The Gutter’s own Beth writes about the 1970s masala movie, Shamshera, at Beth Loves Bollywood! “For all the complaints that Shamshera is old-fashioned…well yes, it is, gloriously so, beautifully executing a known formula with a weariness and bitterness that are perfectly suited to right now. As I watched, […]
This article includes spoilers for Disney’s The Descendants. The story behind the making of Disney’s The Descendants (2015) is itself a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the concept of corporate ip. Spinning off from the success of Monster High, toymaker Mattel–who also […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of The Roundup (South Korea, 2022): Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup reminds me of 1980s and 1990s Hollywood buddy cop action movies. The kind of movies where Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin reviews Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True (France / Belgium, 2022) at Biff Bam Pop! “Quentin Dupieux creates worlds or, perhaps even more intriguingly, a world where anything can happen. A tire might become a serial killer, as in Rubber (2010). People might commune with […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of The Girl From The Other Side (Japan, 2022): I almost don’t know what to say about Yutaro Kubo and Satomi Maiya’s The Girl From The Other Side (Japan, 2022). The […]
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