You’ve seen and even more likely heard Peter Lorre, even if you don’t know the name. His large, sad eyes, soft voice, distinct accent live on exaggeratedly in Looney Tunes cartoons, episodes of old television series like Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as the inspiration for Ren’s voice […]
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick thoughts on Cédric Ido’s film The Gravity / La Gravité (France, 2023) at Monstrous Industry. French Burkinabé writer/director Cédric Ido’s The Gravity is a lo fi science fiction thriller—with perhaps a dash of urban folk horror—that uses gravity in both […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Jean-Denis Bonan’s A Woman Kills / La Femme borreau (France, 1968) and it is the most French movie that ever movied! Read more here.
I attended the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival remotely, but with a press card in my cap and a matcha latte in my hand. I was disappointed I did not get a chance to see the movie I was most looking forward to, Wai Ka-Fai’s new film starring […]
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