At Asking The Wrong Questions, Abigail Nussbaum has some thoughts on The Marvels (2023). “The Marvels is the first movie that makes me think the MCU might actually be over. Not because it’s bad—it is, in fact, quite charming and enjoyable, solidly mid-tier Marvel, and near the top […]
Ever since I was a kid, I remember waiting impatiently for the monsters in the movie to appear. I was always moving around, doing head stands or jiggling my knees, but whenever there were strange creatures, shaggy beasts, alien beings, or puppets on the screen they had my […]
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate 20 years of Kal No Haa! “Commemorating 20 years of Shahrukh’s turn as a tragic angel/Mary Poppins character in Kal Ho Na Ho! Borrowing a fair bit from two Hrishikesh Mukherjee films–Anand and Bawarchi […]
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At Vulture, Savannah Salazar writes about tv series’ recent murkiness. “Aside from ‘Why’s everything so expensive?’ the biggest complaint of the streaming era may be ‘Why’s everything so dark?’ The budgets of television shows have skyrocketed in recent years, so why is it often such a struggle to […]
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “two films in which dancing is a plot element: Disco Dancer and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. That’s about all they have in common, other than being fairly lightweight concoctions that we enjoy very much. Episode […]
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