The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some reflections on the new documentary Shadowland: “It’s clear that Shadowland writer/director Otso Tiainen and co-writer Kalle Kinnunen want so much to embrace the landscape of the Montségur and the surrounding French Pyrenees and the esoteric and occult religious community that understand […]
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 […]
Friend of the Gutter Brian Kirby urges media companies, publishers, agencies and agents to leave X. His analysis and advice is worth considering for more industries and individuals as well. “I’ve been in Marketing with a capital M for a couple of decades, and have worked on large-scale […]
Larian’s Swen Vincke has a lot of interesting things to say not only about Baldur’s Gate 3 and what Larian will be developing next, but about managing game development, which is applicable to other kinds of creative work, and about getting Larian’s team out of Russia when Russia […]
At IGN, Rebekah Valentine interviews developers who lost their jobs in the recent game industry layoffs about the impact on their lives and the industry. “I reached out to impacted developers to try and answer the heavy, complex question of why this was happening in the first place. […]
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is finally getting a release date in the US. “Described as an absurdist semi-autobiographical dark comedy, The People’s Joker stars Drew as a painfully unfunny aspiring clown called Joker the Harlequin. Her character grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join […]