There’s something about the heat of summer that makes me want to watch something slow and surreal, like a series of mirages forming and transforming as I float in my summer heat bubble with a cold beverage. None of the films I’m thinking of are classic summertime fare, […]
PBS has the documentary When Giants Walked Here. “Raleigh’s Dorton Arena is famed the world over for its groundbreaking architecture. Its greatest untold legacy, however, is its place in the history of a Southern mainstay: pro wrestling. This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of pro wrestling at […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Blind Cop 2 (2026) and has some thoughts on its micro-budget fun! “Blind Cop 2 is a micro-budget, probably guerrilla, satirical cop film made with a lot of love for the action movies of the 1980s, a similar love for their soundtracks, […]
At Roger Ebert.com, Marya E. Gates has a great conversation with John Waters. Read it here.
At Metrograph, Dylan Cheung writes an excellent piece about Ringo Lam’s On Fire Trilogy. “At a moment when the city was obsessed with yuppy modernity, Lam returned Hong Kong cinema to its working-class roots. While Woo’s film romanticizes the criminal underworld, imbuing his gangsters with classical ideals of […]
It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
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