Our friends at The Projection Booth watch Top Secret (1984): “Released in 1984, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker’s Top Secret is a send up of both Elvis movies and WWII espionage films. It’s a very odd duck which stars Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a teen idol who has […]
At Letterboxd, Annie Lyons intereviews director Michelle Garza Cervera about film folk horror film with Queer punk underpinnings, Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). “Two maternal horror staples also simmered on the backburner of her mind during Huesera. ‘I love The Babadook. I think it’s a radical film in […]
Abigail Nussbaum writes about the ennui of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Phase 4. “There’s a void at the heart of the franchise, and while new characters may eventually come to fill it, right now feels not at all unlike where we were during phase one, still trying to […]
At Vague Visages, D.M. Palmer writes about the influence of world cinema in the 1920s. “the silent works of the 20s brim with invention, pushing forcefully against technological and social boundaries. There is a danger and dynamism to 20s cinema which was gradually eradicated by the standardisation of […]
This is not a spoiler-free essay. There is a lot of discussion of plot elements. If you like to go into a film blind, you will want to wait to read this piece. ~~~ These are the stories of the robots: They resent us for creating them. They […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan celebrate Galentines Day at the Filmi Ladies podcast! “Happy Galentine’s Day (a day late) to all our filmi ladies of every gender identity! Today’s episode looks at women’s friendships in Hindi cinema. There are very few films that focus on […]
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