There’s still some screenings today, but Fantastic Fest 2026 is over for me at least. I had a good festival this year. I didn’t get to watch all the films I hoped to, but it’s hard to be disappointed when I know I’ll see most of them eventually. […]
My last feature at this year’s Fantastic Fest was director Fergal Costello, co-director/action choreographer Lee Huang, and writer Paddy McDonald’s kung fu horror comedy, Kung Fu Deadly (Ireland/Australia, 2026). When Dublin is beset by a swarm of rats, well, one neighborhood in Dublin, exterminators Danny (actor/comedian Steven He […]
The Cultural Gutter is attending Fantastic Fest again this year! This time the Gutter’s own Carol Borden will be attending strapped into the chairs of the CG Viewatorium (and Sachin Hingoo might be if he survives TIFF 2026). We’ll be sharing first impressions and reviews here at the […]
At Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart, Ray Newman has suggestions for when you’ve run out of official BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas eeriness. “The short films and television episodes listed below aren’t all ghost stories. And they weren’t all produced by the BBC. Some are lighter, some are darker. […]
Hey, it’s some initial impressions of the third movie the Gutter’s own Carol Borden saw at this year’s Overlook Film Festival: Paul Duane’s All You Need Is Death (Ireland, 2023): All You Need Is Death is like a ballad full of dread and a desperate foreboding. It has […]
At the Guardian, Xan Brooks interviews John Boorman, director of Point Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972), Zardoz (1974), Excalibur (1981) and the upcoming, Queen & Country. “If he could rewind to 1952 and reprise the entire trip, he cannot imagine exactly what he would change. Boorman frowns. ‘Actually, I […]
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