At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins have “So much to say about Maa Behen! Madhuri, Triptii, and Dharna portray wily, crafty, endearing, complicated, entrapped, strong, powerful, confusing ladies in this character study of what it means to be […]
I’ve had a cruddy day, so please indulge me in a visit to my favorite micro-genre of mainstream Indian cinema: people looking for things in Calcutta.I love a mystery. I love characters on a quest for knowledge that is ultimately used for resolution or even justice. I am […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Blind Cop 2 (2026) and has some thoughts on its micro-budget fun! “Blind Cop 2 is a micro-budget, probably guerrilla, satirical cop film made with a lot of love for the action movies of the 1980s, a similar love for their soundtracks, […]
At Roger Ebert.com, Marya E. Gates has a great conversation with John Waters. Read it here.
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss two action-thriller movies directed by Feroz Khan! “If ‘Feroz Khan’=’more is more,’ then the theme of today’s episode is More More Is More. How perfectly filmi! We needed to escape the […]
At Metrograph, Dylan Cheung writes an excellent piece about Ringo Lam’s On Fire Trilogy. “At a moment when the city was obsessed with yuppy modernity, Lam returned Hong Kong cinema to its working-class roots. While Woo’s film romanticizes the criminal underworld, imbuing his gangsters with classical ideals of […]
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