The Cultural Gutter’s Carol goes to TIFF 2021!
The Gutter’s own Carol is reviewing films from the Toronto International Film Festival at the Soldier of Cinema blog this year. Read them here!
Camp John Waters
There’s a John Waters Camp! Kathleen Turner, Mink Stole, and Patricia Hearst are camp counsellors! “The outlandish visionary we have to blame for Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, Cry Baby, and a little juggernaut you may have heard of called Hairspray, is welcoming visitors into his warped mind in a summer camp […]
“Phil Tippett: Mad God, 30 Years in the Making”
The BBC has a program on Phil Tippett on filmmaking and stop-motion animation. Listen here!
The Unexpected Guest, Indian Style
The works of Agatha Christie, like many other best-sellers in the English language, have been successfully translated into mainstream Indian cinema.* Gumnaam (1965) moves the stage version of And Then There Were None on a jungle- and ruin-covered island somewhere off the coast of India (and if you’ve […]
“Monsters, Mayhem and Marvel Horror in Rise of the Midnight Sons“
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century has some things to say about Ghost Rider, horror and Marvel’s Rise of the Midnight Sons at Comic Book Herald! “With an influx of scary villains, extreme action sequences, and earnest looks into a reluctant hero’s tortured inner world, the early days […]
“The Great Recession”
At Film Comment, Shonni Enelow writes about a new style of acting in American film. “But something else is brewing. [Jennifer] Lawrence’s characters in Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games don’t arrive at emotional release or revelation; rather than fight to express themselves, her characters fight not to. […]
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