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 […]
At The New Yorker, Simon Abrams interviews filmmaker John Woo. “Woo talked about taking a break from Hollywood, his quest to make personal genre movies, and his enduring faith in friendship, onscreen and off.” Read more here.
No one will be more surprised than I am that I enjoy Ramsay Brothers films. Since the 1970s, this family’s output has occupied a special place in Indian horror cinema. Working primarily in Hindi, the seven Ramsays made over 30 films (not quite all of them horror). For […]
There is a conventional wisdom that says works of horror are at heart cautionary tales and that once you tear up their planks, all you will find beating beneath is a pulpy warning to the curious, a brutal morality tale leftover from darkest days and firelit nights. This […]
At Little White Lies, Raine Petrie has some thoughts on the re-release of the Talking Heads’ concert movie, Stop Making Sense (1984). “Forty years have now passed, and not only has A24 restored and re-released Stop Making Sense to commemorate the concert film’s anniversary, but the man behind […]
Charlie Jane Anders shares a space opera reading list and you should peruse it! “We are living in a new golden age of space opera. People have proclaimed the death of this vital subgenre many times over the decades — but like a deep space probe upgraded by […]
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