At the Guardian, Stuart Jeffries writes about Brannon Carty’s documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine (USA, 2025) and the fans who love the show. “It celebrates the men (and the fans Carty interviews are overwhelmingly male) who have found friendship, community and creativity […]
Check out this year’s Midnight Madness Program at the Toronto International Film Festival! If you can go, go! Ben Wheatley! Bryan Fuller! Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious! Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover! Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie! If you can’t, make your genre viewing plans for the next […]
Letterboxd has filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s1993 Star Wars film. “30 years ago, when I was 17 years old, I made a little Star Wars film. Using my family’s camcorder, I animated my toys frame by frame in stop motion, disguised my friends as Ewoks and stormtroopers, and edited on […]
John Hodgman interviews Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick about working on The Venture Bros. and The Venture Bros.’ film, Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart (USA, 2024). Watch here.
“And we’ll hate what we’ve lost but we’ll love what we find…” – from “Featherstone” by The Paper Kites Sometimes I feel like the joy and value of ephemeral things get lost in an all-consuming preoccupation with things that last. Perhaps it’s rooted in a desire to avoid […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has a little piece on Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (USA, 2022). “I wish The People’s Joker could just be a film about Joker the Harlequin’s experience and we could watch it as one movie among others. I wish I could anticipate a […]
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