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 […]
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 […]
The winds of November are blowing, my friends, chilling our souls in the Musuracan shadows and grayscale skies. Making us hanker for some noir, but grieving over our options on long autumnal nights. Maybe you’ve seen Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Out of the Past (1947), […]
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