Congratulations to Hundreds of Beavers (USA) and action choreographer / stunt beaver Jon Truei on winning Best Brawl at Vulture’s 2025 Stunt Awards! See the rest of the winners here. You can read an interview with Truei by the Gutter’s own Carol Borden here.
Despite being rooted in silent film aesthetics and traditions, the structures within Hundreds Of Beavers conceal an underlying foundation of video gameyness in its presentation.
It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked, alphabetical list of some of the things I liked and a […]
Gaze upon the wonder of this year’s Midnight Madness line-up here. It features: Larry Charles’ Dicks the Musical (USA); Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft (USA); Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World (Germany / South Africa / USA); Finn Wolfhard & Billy Bryk’s Hell of a Summer (USA / Canada); Nikhil […]
Hundreds of Beavers (USA, 2023) had me from the trailer. I knew I loved it from the moment when I saw a pair of rabbits—played by actors dressed in rabbit mascot suits—turn and look back at the camera. This was cinema, pure cinema. And the trailer didn’t lead […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews’ Hundreds of Beavers and loved it. “Directed by Mike Cheslik and co-written by Cheslik and Tews, Hundreds of Beavers is a worthy follow-up to their previous film, Lake Michigan Monster (2018). So many things are […]