Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]
This year for Switcheroo Month I thought I would doubly switch things up by writing about something reputable–the films of Alfred Hitchcock–and something I would not usually write about–the films of Alfred Hitchock. Hitchcock is a filmmaker I struggle with. I recognize the quality of his work. I […]
New at Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins start a series dedicated to India’s acting dynasty, the Kapoors, with a look at the dynasty’s founder, Prithviraj: “Today we’re launching a new series on the first family of Hindi cinema: THE KAPOORS! Founding great-granddaddy […]
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
Hey, it’s some initial impressions of the third movie the Gutter’s own Carol Borden saw at this year’s Overlook Film Festival: Paul Duane’s All You Need Is Death (Ireland, 2023): All You Need Is Death is like a ballad full of dread and a desperate foreboding. It has […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden is fortunate enough to be (remotely) attending the Overlook Film Festival 2024 and has some thoughts on Larry Fessenden’s new werewolf movie, Blackout: Charlie (Alex Hurt) is trying to escape Talbot Falls but can’t quite get out. A town with that name is […]
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