At the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about male characters they love! “…and here’s a companion piece to last week’s episode: men characters we hold with great affection. Some of them elicit heart-eyes emojis, but others are just people who stand […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches the subtly surreal road trip / search for self movie, Giving Birth To A Butterfly (USA, 2023). “Road trips often elicit the sharing of secrets and unspoken truths. In Giving Birth To A Butterfly, two women go on a roadtrip to a […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about female characters they love in Indian film! “This week’s episode is exactly what it says on the label: women characters we hold with great affection. They’re not necessarily the best written or the most […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Thomas Marchese’s From Black. “There has been a wave of horror movies about motherhood, ambivalence about motherhood and reproduction, complicated often witchy women, and grief. Films like: Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (Australia, 2014), Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution (France, 2015), Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (UK, […]
Hey, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and Carol Borden have both written a bit about Fugue, director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s follow-up to the much beloved, The Lure (2014)! Read Sachin’s swell review here and Carol’s piece here.
Nocebo (Philippines / Ireland, 2022) is a blend of Gothic manor house horror, Southeast Asian witchcraft movies, and horror set in the world of fashion. Instead of focusing on connivances and cruelties within the world of haute couture fashion houses, like, say, Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace […]
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