This week Guest Star and film scholar Earl Jackson writes about an injured Japanese teen hearthrob’s return to the screen in a movie that references his injury and the incident that caused it. ~~~ Rushing headlong into the kaleidoscopic tumult of world film history, kibbitzing at a bazaar […]
Enjoy A.J. and Carmela’s award-winning, stop-motion short film, “A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian” right here. It has an accurate depiction of Lesbian flirtation.
At the Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White interviews Brooke H. Cellars, writer/director/costume designer of the campy comedy, The Cramps: A Period Piece (USA, 2025)! “Filmmaker Brook H. Cellars sits down with Mike to discuss her audacious feature debut The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025). This […]
At Fantastic Fest this year, I was not only fortunate enough to receive accreditation so I could see movies and report back, but I was also lucky enough to see four very different films that I might not see otherwise. I am back now, my fedora with the […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden really enjoyed the campy, lo-fi body horror of The Cramps: A Period Piece at Fantastic Fest. Here are some quick thoughts. (There are more thoughts on it at Monstrous Industry): Brooke H. Cellars’ The Cramps: A Period Piece (USA, 2025) is a period […]
The truth is that all I really want to read is fantasy. Stories set in other worlds, other solar systems, other versions of reality that don’t entirely resemble this one. I used to read a much wider range of fiction and every so often I still pick up […]
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