I attended the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival remotely, but with a press card in my cap and a matcha latte in my hand. I was disappointed I did not get a chance to see the movie I was most looking forward to, Wai Ka-Fai’s new film starring […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness. In Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness (South Korea, 2021), the iconic actor Choi Min-sik brings his all to a story […]
Friend of the Gutter Andrew Nette shares a list of 10 underappreciated neo-noirs at Crime Reads. “while I will happily admit to being a due paying member of the First-half-of-the-1970s-was-a-great-period-of-American-crime-cinema-fan-club, it does strike me that we tend to focus on the same handful of films from this period […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Patrice Leconte’s Maigret (France / Belgium, 2022) Patrice Leconte’s Maigret was adapted from Georges Simenon’s Maigret & The Dead Girl / Maigret et la jeune morte (1954), one of the […]
There are so many events happening at Fantasia 2022 between July 14 and August 3, including world and North American film premieres, a tribute to John Woo, and a special screening series as part of a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Kier-La Janesse’s book, House of Psychotic […]
At Crime Reads, Samantha Allen writes about her novel, Patricia Wants to Cuddle (2022). “Maybe the book turned out ‘bonkers.’ Maybe it’s ‘bananas’ or even ‘batshit.’ But the beauty of fiction is that you can be as bold as you want, lying through your teeth while you tell […]
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