Spookoween 2021: 31 Days of Horror, Part II
Spookoween 2021 continues with more films from the Nightstream Festival. There’s also cats, vampires, demons, draculas, more women and their daughters in the woods who you should really just leave...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Sometimes the Femme Fatale Wins
The Gutter’s own Carol is out rolling the rubes and getting a bone-weary, disillusioned private detective to play the sap for her. In the meantime, in honor of Noirvember, enjoy her piece on the...
View ArticleHong Kong Filmart 2022: Blue Eyes / Occhi Blu (Italy, 2021)
The 2022 Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (HK Filmart) has virtual component and so I was fortunate enough to able to attend again this year. I will be writing longer essays about the...
View ArticleThe Gutter’s Own Carol Goes to Hong Kong Filmart 2022!
I was fortunate enough to able to attend the Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (HK Filmart) again this year. Among the panel discussions and analyses of trends–and one inquiry about...
View ArticleFantasia 2022: Convenience Story (Japan, 2022)
This year I was fortunate enough to be given press credentials for the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival. I will be writing about what I watch here and at the Cultural Gutter in Notes and in a...
View ArticleThe Gutter’s Own Carol Goes to Fantasia 2022!
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...
View ArticleBack To The Wharf (China, 2020)
Back To The Wharf is one of a wave of Chinese crime dramas in recent years. These films make up for the bloated, big budget, nationalistic battlefield epics China had been exporting, at least for me....
View Article“It’s Not Easy Hating Evil”: The Bad Sleep Well
For this year’s Switcheroo Month, I decided to write about a lesser known film by one of the most reputable directors around—Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Set in then contemporary...
View ArticleGetting Away With It: Diao Yinan’s Neo-Noir
The winds of November are blowing, my friends, chilling our souls in the Musuracan shadows and grayscale skies. Making us hanker for some noir, but grieving over our options on long autumnal nights....
View Article10 Things I Liked in 2023
It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked,...
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