At KPBS’ Cinema Junkie, friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando shares her favorite films of 2025! “Picking the best of any year is always agonizing because films are so wildly diverse. Sometimes I want action, sometimes I want to be chilled to the bone, other times I just […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
Friend of the Gutter and Soldier of Cinema Robert A. Mitchell is back at the Toronto International Film Festival and we will be sharing his interviews. First up, an interview with Nacho Vigalondo at the world premiere of Daniela Forever! Watch here.
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on The Other Laurens (2024), the new Belgian neo-noir from Claude Schmitz with a strong 1970s neo-noir vibe! Read the mostly spoiler-free thoughts here.
At The Ringer, Brooke Knisley looks at a very specific film history: “In the long history of exploitation and horror movies, the fairer sex tends to get a raw deal when it comes to preserving their privates. But, as audiences found out this week, that’s changing with anti-heroines […]
With the sprawling desert landscapes and vast rumbling sandworms of Dune 2 now gracing theatre screens, it seems like the perfect time to raise the specter of a very different Arrakis that never came to pass. While Denis Villeneuve’s treatment of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci fi novel, Dune, […]