Now in the Public Domain!

The Public Domain Review features new books and films that have come into the public domain in the US on Jan. 1, 2023. Read more here. Meanwhile, Duke University has a resource listing sound recordings as well and discussions of copyright and the public domain here.

My Favorite Horrors, 2022

2022 was an amazing year for films, especially for horror–a year full of past masters, spiritual successors, and strange new worlds. While I stuffed myself near to the point of Sam Neill Event Horizon eyes, I wasn’t able to share most of the ridiculous plenty here at the […]

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 […]