Filmi Ladies: Yalgaar & Apradh!

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 […]

“Ringo Lam on Fire”

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 […]

Summer Fun Time Reading ’26

It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]