Filthy and Gorgeous at Fantasia 2025!
Sachin Hingoo saw a couple of pretty filthy movies at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and is better for it!
On Killing the Guilt in Your Pleasure
This month our Guest Star is film presenter and bon vivant Jackie Stargrove. They write on killing the guilt in your pleasure and just loving what you love. ~~~~ “Even the worst picture is someone’s favorite film, and that someone is the fan I am always talking to.” […]
“31 Days of Horror: Lynch / Oz”
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin writes about director David Lynch and Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Lynch / Oz (2022). “In Lynch/OZ, Phillipe enlists six filmmakers and reviewers to expound on Lynch’s fixation on Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz.It feels, in many ways, […]
Camp John Waters
There’s a John Waters Camp! Kathleen Turner, Mink Stole, and Patricia Hearst are camp counsellors! “The outlandish visionary we have to blame for Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, Cry Baby, and a little juggernaut you may have heard of called Hairspray, is welcoming visitors into his warped mind in a summer camp […]
Interview with John Waters
The BFI has an interview with the Pope of Trash, John Waters! “There’s nothing that’s ‘good bad taste’, it’s all just ‘bad bad taste’. It’s almost not worth being remarked on. I think it’s hard for anything to be so bad it’s good anymore. My films were made […]
“How The Death Of The Mid-Budget Film Left A Generation Of Filmmakers MIA”
“While we weren’t looking, the mid-budget adult-oriented motion picture has all but disappeared. And the gifted directors behind them are in danger of disappearing as well. Movie wonks and box-office watchers have written and talked about the death of mid-budget filmmaking, but mostly in business terms—as opposed to […]
The Cultural Gutter 