Arising from a mishmash of Indiana Jones’s greatest hits, a handful of action films I personally cannot identify, and a particularly mid-2000s stumbling love of hip hop aesthetics, Naksha (“The Map”) (2006) works for me a lot better than it has any right to. Much of the credit […]
Actress Ann Sheridan confronts a cult menace in Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx (1943) by Kathryn Heisenfelt and the Internet Archive has the whole illustrated wonder! Read it here! (Thanks, Nora!)
Surreal Noir celebrates Black History Month! “This episode shares a variety of Black women and centres on Paris, of course the city at the centre of Surrealism, but also with a long history drawing people of colour for art, music and more. Neo-noir comes in the shape of […]
Our friends at the Feminine Critique watch Valentine (2001) and The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015), a film formerly known as February! “Hello lovers! We’re diving into February with, well, a movie formerly titled February and one set on the month’s most famous day. Up first is the ‘I Can’t […]
This is not a spoiler-free essay. There is a lot of discussion of plot elements. If you like to go into a film blind, you will want to wait to read this piece. ~~~ These are the stories of the robots: They resent us for creating them. They […]
Shemaroo has posted a tribute to Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri focusing on his disco classics. You can listen here.
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The Cultural Gutter 