“Sometimes you are Odysseus and that Game of Thrones marathon is the home you just want to get back to, so your headphones and a properly ripped from YouTube opening theme will have to do till the real Iliad arrives. And when I was saying sometimes, I mean […]
Friend of the Gutter Aaron Hanson and Brian McLachlan look at the use of color in conveying character for superheroes, supervillains and secondary characters. “Part I: Primary Heroes” here and “Part II: Secondary Characters” here.
If you enjoy people shouting “NOOOOO!” in film, you will enjoy the “Nahiiin! Face Gallery” at Memsaab Story.
I came across Steven Barnes’ Streetlethal the way I come across most things: by accident, while looking for something else. Rereading William Gibson’s Neuromancer (and its two sequels, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive) got me on a kick of rereading not just the rest of Gibson’s oeuvre, […]
“I was on a phone call with an author of one of those fantasy series I edit, discussing my revision notes for him. His latest book had all the right beats and elements, but what I was missing was the depth of character motivation. The plot seemed to […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins reviews Aseem Chhabra’s Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, The Star for Indian Express. “Of all the Hindi film stars from the 1960s to 1980s, how could people forget Shashi Kapoor? He did everything. He was a major mainstream hero and a stalwart of multi-starrers, […]
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