Tag: Japan

TIFF Midnight Madness 2025 Program!

Check out this year’s Midnight Madness Program at the Toronto International Film Festival! If you can go, go! Ben Wheatley! Bryan Fuller! Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious! Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover! Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie! If you can’t, make your genre viewing plans for the next […]

Watch Out! Hot Spring Shark Attack!

The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the ridiculous splendor of Morihito Inoue’s Hot Spring Shark Attack / Onsen Shark (Japan, 2024)! “Writer / director Morihito Inoue’s Onsen Shark is his first feature. It premiered at the 2024 Tokyo Shark Film Festival. For the record, I […]

Summer Fun Time Reading ’25

It’s already steamy where I am–90 F and a thunderstorm is coming in. Everyone is getting their Pride outfits and do’s together. Summer is basically here. Maybe you’re getting ready to go camping or making plans for a trip to the beach. Maybe you’ve even booked a hotel […]

Alex Winter and Walter Chaw on Ugetsu!

At the Denver Public Library’s Saturday Afternoon Film Discussion, “Actor, director and producer Alex Winter (act. Bill & Ted film series; act. The Lost Boys; dir. Zappa) joined film critic Walter Chaw on December 5th 2020 to discuss Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 haunting masterpiece, Ugetsu.” Watch here.