At the Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace have two special episodes focusing on Bystanders (USA, 2024). Listen to an interview with director Mary Beth McAndrews here. “On this very special interview, Christine and Emily chat with director Mary Beth McAndrews about […]
A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss the 1970 Toshio Matsumoto film, Demons! “We conclude a month of discussing Japanese films with a look at Toshio Matsumoto’s 1971 film Demons AKA Shura AKA Pandemonium. The story of the film is part of the fabric of the larger 47 […]
“It’s another big ol’ catchup, where Christine and Emily wrangle their wild lists of what they’ve been watching (which is suitably 80% in the horror genre). We save the spoilery talk on Orphan: (Esther’s) First Kill, Nope, and Yellowjackets for the final fully warned segment. Before that, highlights […]
At RogerEbert.com, Roxanne Hadadi writes on the films of Jeremy Saulnier. “[W]hat Saulnier has built into his Blue Ruin, Green Room, and Hold the Dark trilogy is not only a flair for the gory and grisly, but a consistent acknowledgment of the role this country’s regimented class system […]
At the Guardian, Anne Billson gives John Heard his due and writes about eyepatches in film. “One-eyed, one-legged, alcoholic Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter is the sort of avenging obsessive who, by rights, belongs up there in the pantheon alongside Travis Bickle, Sam Quint or Khan Noonien Singh. In […]
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