Anyone that knows me will tell you that I’m a sucker for an unconventional animal-themed film and while it doesn’t have the in-your-face animated aesthetic of last year’s Flow, György Pálfi’s new film ‘Hen’ chicken-scratches that itch in a major way.
The whole process of finding your true nature is one continuous mistake .– Shunryu Suzuki Roshi ‘Tis the day after Christmas and as my thoughts turn to the start of another year, I find myself ruminating on the definition of success and how hard it is to predict […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
A new game called Webfishing from Michigan-based creator Lamedeveloper reinvents the early-aughts chat game, and fosters community, creativity, and clownfish.
As long time Cultural Gutter readers will know, I love horror. Love it, live by it, curl up next to it to fall asleep. I still avoided Damien Leone’s Terrifier series for a long time. I avoided it for the same reason many people avoid horror altogether: ew. […]
The fact that I have to start a discussion of Shalimar (1978) by specifying that this is the English-language version of the film, which is only 60% as long as the Hindi and therefore almost automatically makes less sense than the fuller work, tells you that we are […]