At Vulture, Savannah Salazar writes about tv series’ recent murkiness. “Aside from ‘Why’s everything so expensive?’ the biggest complaint of the streaming era may be ‘Why’s everything so dark?’ The budgets of television shows have skyrocketed in recent years, so why is it often such a struggle to […]
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “two films in which dancing is a plot element: Disco Dancer and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. That’s about all they have in common, other than being fairly lightweight concoctions that we enjoy very much. Episode […]
Polygon‘s Patrick Gill reveals the truth in a video essay. “Everything is wrestling. Over the last 25 years, video games have borrowed wrestling moves and archetypes with reckless abandon, regardless of whether or not the game has anything to do with wrestling. Here’s the story of how the […]
At The New Yorker, Simon Abrams interviews filmmaker John Woo. “Woo talked about taking a break from Hollywood, his quest to make personal genre movies, and his enduring faith in friendship, onscreen and off.” Read more here.
Marya E. Gates joins the inaugural episode of the Neo-Noir Podcast to discuss “classic noir, neo-noir, and two films that work as examples of both.” Listen here.
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler (France, 1970). “The Strangler / L’Étrangleur (France, 1970) is a peculiar film, perhaps a Nouvelle Vague policier, but also not. It’s described as a “French giallo” in promotional materials, and I suppose that is as good […]
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