At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins focus on the color purple! “Wherever could we find purple prose in Hindi cinema??? The Dirty Picture (2011), that’s for sure. 💜 💜 💜 We also discuss the lavender marriage in the lovely queer rights film […]
Rachel Elspeth Gross interviews Daniel Lawson about costuming Carrie Preston as the always remarkably dressed Elsbeth Tascioni in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and, in particular, the newish howcatchem mystery series, Elsbeth. “The crash and clash of colors and patterns on screen could easily become chaotic or […]
Congratulations to Hundreds of Beavers (USA) and action choreographer / stunt beaver Jon Truei on winning Best Brawl at Vulture’s 2025 Stunt Awards! See the rest of the winners here. You can read an interview with Truei by the Gutter’s own Carol Borden here.
At Film International, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about The Substance (2024): “I live a very different life from Elisabeth Sparkle and–for that matter–from Demi Moore. But despite the fantastic excesses of Coralie Fargeat’s slick cinema du look body horror, in many ways I don’t think I have ever felt […]
Friend of the Gutter Eve Wilson writes about Final Fantasy VII, sarcasm and the end of the world. “It’s cool to be publicly sarcastic about the end of the world, even if the speaker is privately concerned. Maybe that’s a defense mechanism. Maybe it’s a response to self-righteous […]
This week, Guest Star Allan Mott writes about a Hindi adaptation of The Parent Trap! ~~~ There are a lot of things to love about Bollywood cinema, but for me its chief appeal has always been the irony of how its impulse to be as commercial and audience-friendly […]
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