Rummaging around for a spooky film for my Gutter submission for October, I decided upon Kohraa, (“The Fog”), a 1964 Hindi adaptation of Rebecca. Rewatching Kohraa and Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) back to back, I’m struck by how much more isolated the Indian protagonist is. Kohraa spends most of […]
Friend of the Gutter Robert A. Mitchell shares a “performance that made him scream” at Biff Bam Pop! “Xavier Gens’ Frontier(s) captures the xenophobia, the restlessness of a young generation as well as age-old human atrocities. Xavier’s film is also prescient as the sources of evil in the […]
Did you know that renowned distributor of East Asian film excellence, Third Window Films has a podcast? They do and if you are interested in East Asian film, you should listen! Available here and wherever find podcasts are streamed.
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discusses Indian adaptations of Jane Austen’s work on Filmi Ladies! Watch here.
BoJack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie creator Raphael Bob-Wakesberg talks about his favorite tv shows at Rolling Stone. “As soon as I agreed to do this, I was like, ‘This is very hard! How do you possibly compare these shows?’ Sometimes my frustration with these lists — it’s […]
Ghoul (2018) is as bleak as might be expected for a series that starts with the line, “Strike a deal with your blood and out of the smokeless fire the ghul will come.” It’s a three episode miniseries that addresses fascism, state terror, and individual guilt in a […]
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