Filthy and Gorgeous at Fantasia 2025!
Sachin Hingoo saw a couple of pretty filthy movies at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and is better for it!
“Fantasia 2025: For the Love of Film in Kenichi Ugana’s ‘I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn'”
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo is attending Fantasia this year. Here’s his thoughts on Kenichi Ugana’s I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn! “A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of underground horror filmmaking, Kenichi Ugana’s I Fell In Love with a Z-Grade Director in […]
The Projection Booth: Fantasia 2024 Special Report!
Our friends at the Projection Booth Podcast go to this year’s Fantasia Film Festival and report back on 3 films and a swell new book! Featuring: Heidi Honeycutt, Miguel Llansó, Kourtney Roy, Jason Deline and Jeffrey St. Jules! Listen here.
“Fantasia Film Festival 2024: Stephen Sawchuk’s Hell is a Teenage Girl leaves you wanting more”
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo watched Hell Is A Teenage Girl (2024)! “Like so many towns in slasher films, Springboro has a set of rules for avoiding its masked killer; no booze, no drugs, no sex. But there’s also a fourth rule – don’t mess with Parker Campbell, […]
“Fantasia Festival 2024: Pratul Gaikwad’s Dead Dead Full Dead is a Murder Mystery Where They All Dunnit”
The Gutter’s Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on Dead Dead Full Dead! “Watching the debut feature from Pratul Gaikwad, Dead Dead Full Dead, it feels like a Knives Out story that’s completely unmoored from reality. A murder mystery fully unconcerned with remaining tethered to social, physical, or narrative […]
“Lost in labyrinths in the company of goblin kings”
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw has a magnificent piece on Oz Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) and on Perkins as a director. “Thematically, at least, Oz Perkins reminds me most of Sofia Coppola, in that all of his films are autobiographical examinations of the relationship between isolated, creative, depressed […]
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