“The thing is, to me, a movie is alive”
At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Carl Franklin “on how blues and noir shaped One Final Move, and the story behind that final shot. ” Read it here.
“Cat Performances, Ranked”
At Vulture, Bilge Ebiri considers and ranks cat peformances in film. See the list here.
Sharksploitation!
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
Filmi Ladies: Rekha!
At Filmi Ladies Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins are joined by Sai to discuss Indian film superstar, Rekha! “She’s one of Indian cinema’s most gifted actresses, a superb dancer, a fitness and beauty icon, a polyglot, a fashion queen, a queer icon, a legend who […]
The Creation Suite
The art of creating characters in video games is neither objectively new, nor even new to me. I’ve been messing around with video game character creation suites for decades, though I certainly never thought of it as art. I think the most common use for these creation tools […]
“How Genndy Tartakovsky cracked the code to quiet animation!”
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Genndy Tartakovsky at the Vulture! “Animator Genndy Tartakovsky is one of our greatest living action directors — a student of Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, and George Lucas who creates family-friendly, populist work that can be described as both terrifying and adorable. Take, for example, […]
The Cultural Gutter 