Walter Chaw on Indiana Jones
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw writes an astonishing piece on Spielberg, Lucas and all four Indiana Jones films. (Thanks, Matt!)
Live and Let Empathize
Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019) together tell the story of bitchy sorority sister Theresa “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), a slasher film trope with a difference. Shallow, flighty, and rude, Tree courts exactly the kind of cosmic justice that usually comes at the end […]
BBC Radio’s Lord of the Rings
Listen to BBC Radio’s 1981 adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings! (Thanks, Ian!)
“The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists made Sesame Street”
“Sesame Street had had originally been conceived as a novel way of bringing remedial education into the homes of disadvantaged children, especially children of color. [Dr. Chester Pierce], though, saw a different kind of potential for a show like this: one that could directly counter and counteract the […]
The Bollywood Time Machine, Destination 2500 BCE: Mohenjo Daro
My previous installment for the Gutter, Dharam-Veer, falls into the Fully Fictional sub-genre of Historical Wackadoodle. Today we’ll look at an example of its counterpart: the Real-Ish. These films are part of a grandiose tradition of Hindi films that refer to real events but usually give them musical, […]
Joe Alves on Bruce the Shark
At Film School Rejects, “Joe Alves sets the Record Straight on the Supposedly Inoperable Shark of Jaws.”
The Cultural Gutter 