Spoilers for a key event in the first half of the film; if you’re experienced with Bollywood, it’s nothing you wouldn’t predict. ~~~ I can’t explain why I decided to revisit this time-travel flop from 2008. Maybe 2025 is making me empathize with flops. Maybe I hoped I […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate mothers in Indian film! “Happy Mother’s Day or as we call it–Maa Divas! CineMAA has many interesting maas and in this episode we discuss them. There’s the martyr maa, wholesome maa, […]
This essay by Mark Harris deserves a way better title, but it’s about the new Paul Reubens documentary, Paul Reubens decision to go back in the closet and the history of the closet. “Early in the biographical documentary Pee-wee as Himself, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival […]
At the Projection Booth Podcast, friend of the Gutter Mike White talks with Lexi Alexander about her new film. “Mike welcomes director Lexi Alexander to discuss her latest film, Absolute Dominion (2025), a dystopian martial arts thriller set in a world torn apart by religious warfare. They dig […]
There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
In the final video episode of Cinema Junkie, friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando talks Sinners. with KPBS’ Jade Hindeman and Moviewallas‘ Yazdi Pithavala. “Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has been dominating the box office the last two weeks. One of the reasons is that people don’t just want to […]
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