At The Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Gary Farmer! “Much like Uncle Brownie, the shambling, warmhearted eccentric he played for three seasons on Sterlin Harjo’s Reservation Dogs, Gary Farmer takes the long view of things and rarely turns down the chance to be funny about it. Even when […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at films with the theme of greed. “Two masala gems came to mind when we thought about greed: Bluffmaster! (2005) and Judaai (1997). On the surface these stories are about wanting money, but both of […]
At the Bitches Read Comics Podcast it’s all spooky winter horror chills! “We’re here for our semi-regular horror movie extravaganza. This time around, we’re joined by Priya, Kate, Sara, and Monika, and each of them has brought a film to discuss. First up, Black Christmas and abortion rights, […]
At the Projection Booth, friends of the Gutter Mike White and Beth Accomando are joined by Cullen Gallagher to discuss Takeshi Kitano’s Sonatine (1993). “Released in 1993, the film stars Takeshi Kitano as Murakawa, an aging gangster with no real sense of purpose. He’s sent to Okinawa on […]
Of all the things to admire about Darr (1993) (trailer)—its uncompromising tension and insistence on menace, the superstar-confirming work by a young Shah Rukh Khan, its creative sequences of characters’ imaginations, the wonderful use of background score—my favorite is how this film disrupts its maker’s own persona. Respected, […]
At Slate, Isaac Butler writes about the GALA Committee’s In The Name Of The Place, an art project in which they literally placed activist art in the 1990s night time soap, Melrose Place. “Over Melrose Place’s fourth and fifth seasons, the GALA Committee wound up smuggling more than […]