At Bright Wall / Dark Room, Joel Mayward writes a lovely, thoughtful piece on Hundreds of Beavers (2022). “Hundreds of Beavers begins with an on-screen title featuring one of Augustine’s prayers: ‘Lord, grant me chastity…but not yet.’ It is the plea of a pilgrim who feels lost, a […]
I’ve never been an air show guy. Despite having a pretty established and well-attended one every summer here in Toronto, on top of my personal politics not aligning with parading around machines that are explicitly built to destroy people and things, I just think they’re noisy for no […]
At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at “filmi tropes and common ingredients, one letter at a time. We debut with A for Apsara! Beth watched Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) and Pitu watched Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990) and […]
BBC Archive shares a 1968 vision of “The Super City of Tomorrow.” “Your future is being created now – for better or for worse? Some quite fantastic designs for the cities of the twenty-first century are already appearing on drawing boards all over the world. Advanced technology has […]
At The Movie Sleuth, the Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner has some thoughts on Godzilla Minus Zero! “Godzilla Minus One (2023) was a huge international breakout hit for Toho, even winning an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2024. Critics lauded it not only for its special effects […]
Through its various iterations, The Wiz has stood the test of time as both a fun, epic fantasy adventure and a rousing exploration of the tenacity and passion of Black folks in the face of adversity. The original musical premiered in 1974 at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre […]
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