Capy Castaway: A Cozy, Dreamlike Love Letter to Toronto and Friendship
Capy Castaway is the Toronto-centric game that uses an oversized gerbil and a sarcastic, self-centred crow to teach us about friendship.
Leaving Behind Bones and Ghosts: Simple Like Silver (2021)
Director Damian Lahey’s contemplative film Simple Like Silver (2021) couldn’t come at a better time. At its core, it is about how people’s lives intersect, directly or indirectly. Even if someone never meets face-to-face, they are connected by universal truths and emotions like fear, sadness, hope, and exhilaration. […]
It’s Snake Festival Time, Part 2! Sheshnaag
Once again, I am scheduled to post at the Gutter shortly before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami (August 17 this year), so once again I simply must bring another Hindi snake film to the table. If you are new to Hindi snake films*…welcome, it is […]
Willow Nightingale, The Babe With The Power, and A Gentlewoman of Asskickery
It has been, in my opinion, much too long since we here at the Gutter inducted anyone into the illustrious pantheon of Gentlemen and Ladies of Asskickery. This has not been for a lack of candidates and in fact there were a number of worthy inductees to choose […]
From Homer to Nolan: How The Odyssey Survives Through Reinvention
The Odyssey is one of the most influential works of literature ever created, and yet its origins remain ambiguous and widely debated. It started as an oral tradition, passed along by aoidos, or singer-poets, and later transitioned to written form; the timeframe of this transition isn’t agreed upon […]
From the Archives: Reality Isn’t What It Used To Be
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) is the final film in what director John Carpenter calls his Apocalypse Trilogy, also including 1982’s The Thing and 1987’s Prince of Darkness, although the films aren’t joined by any conventional narrative or continuity. In casual use, apocalypse has come to mean nuclear annihilation or the end of civilization, but it literally means unveiling, and that’s what really unifies the trilogy: the revelation of an inhuman universe.
