Sometimes the Netflix algorithm gets it right, instead of serving up its usual tendency to knock you unconscious with a malfunctioning neon drone to the head, as happens to Best of the Best’s Maya at her high school talent show. The loosely Bollywood-related setting is right up my […]
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. […]
As always at this time of year – festival season – but especially this year for personal reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way I’ve become used to consuming art and specifically film. A large amount of my movie-watching takes place at film festivals, which means […]
Cyclops (1987) Japan made a good number of direct-to-video horror shorts in the ’80s, and Cyclops is one of the better ones, even though the story is almost incomprehensible. Takamori (Kazuhiro Sano) is obsessed with birth defects, specifically “cyclopia,” where the two eyes fuse together in the womb […]
This week the Gutter remembers the iconic Tim Curry with this fine essay on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) by the CG Editor Emeritus Keith Allison. ~~~ I was fifteen, pulling the ol’ “spending the night at a friend’s house” scam so I could sneak off and […]
One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear […]
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