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Filmi Ladies on Party Songs!

The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins joins Pitu Sultan and special guest Amrita from Khandaan Podcast to talk party songs on the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “”Party song” is a concept we all think we understand, but this decades-old building block of Hindi cinema deserves a closer look. The one […]

“In Praise of the Unfilmable Novel”

At GQ, Jason Diamond writes about Noah Baumbach’s White Noise (2022) and “the unfilmable novel.” “The funny thing about film adaptations of unfilmable novels, though, is how they age: while they tend to meet critical resistance upon release, something interesting happens after that. Often, the movie versions of […]

Ray Bradbury’s “The Emissary”

The Library of America features Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Emissary.” “Bradbury originally wrote “The Emissary” for his first book, Dark Carnival (1947) and then revised it in 1951 for publication in the short-lived literary journal New-Story. He then rewrote it extensively for inclusion in The October Country […]

Shah Rukh Khan: The Early Years

The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins joins Pitu Sultan on the Filmi Ladies Podcast to discuss superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s early years on television! “Call us TV Ladies this week! We’re talking about two of Shah Rukh Khan’s early tv shows: Fauji (1988)and Doosra Keval (1989). One of these […]