The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the delightful documentary, The Life & Deaths Of Christopher Lee! There is very little more unwieldy than a life, but somehow The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee handles his sprawling life story with a fluid grace. Writer / […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the new British folk horror film, The Severed Sun (2024): Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun‘s opening credits have the perfect blood red font on a black background. The story itself begins with an almost Vermeer tableau shot in […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick reflections on Didier Konings’ Witte Wieven / Heresy: Writer / director Didier Konings’ Witte Wieven, aka, Heresy, is atmospheric folk horror set in a small village in the Netherlands in the Middle Ages. This is not the fun Middle Ages–skipping […]
At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz writes about the 1984 premiere of Miami Vice. “Created by writer Anthony Yerkovich, helmed by filmmaker Thomas Carter, and guided by executive producer Michael Mann, Vice was ostensibly a police procedural: Crockett is a deep-cover operative based in Miami who partners with Ricardo […]
It’s festival season and I was fortunate enough to receive credentials for this year’s Fantastic Fest! Who knows why but I’m going to do my best to engage with the art and write some thoughtful reflections on what I see. Even though I am attending remotely, I’m going […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo reviews Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (France, 2024) at Biff Bam Pop! “I once joked to a friend that no one in Hollywood has the guts or gumption to do a 360 degree whip-pan around the room when a character answers a telephone like […]