At The Feminine Critque, Friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia, Christine Makepeace, and Mike White team up to discuss some movies, baby! “Christine and Emily have to save the world! Or stop a drug war. Or a land war. Or…something. Anyway, it’s hard, and they can’t do it […]
One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear […]
The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is familial and imperial history reaching back to World War II and even further. And if there are not precisely demons in the film, well, there are things that are close enough.
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 […]
It’s a new episode of “What’s Korean Cinema?” on Podcast On Fire as Kenny B and Paul Quinn watch R-Point (2004). “The Korean war movie gets spooky, in 2004’s R-Point. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn.” Listen here.
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about short films of this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival. “What keeps me coming back to support After Dark, now in its 18th year, is its commitment to incubating up and coming talent through its Shorts program. Each year, After Dark […]
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