What in the hell was Succession about? Was it a sitcom? Shakespearean tragedy? Treatise on abuse — or on America? Probably all of it, but Succession was also about dumb people making dumb choices over and over again. It was about Logan making everyone beg and cry and […]
At the Filmi Ladies podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and the Hindi adaptation, Kohraa! “We read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, watched the 1940 Hitchcock adaptation, then watched Biren Nag’s 1964 Hindi adaptation Kohraa. There’s much to love in all […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo lays out this week in horror at Biff Bam Pop! : “This week’s horror news includes the 4K release for one of the most underrated slashers from 1981, some big announcements about a new Blair Witch movie, a sick new Indonesian horror shot […]
For this year’s Switcheroo Month, I decided to write about a lesser known film by one of the most reputable directors around—Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Set in then contemporary mid-Twentieth Century Japan, The Bad Sleep Well is the story of Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) seeking […]
I told myself I wouldn’t do this. For the second year in a row, I’ve let Switcheroo Month, the time of year when us Gutterfolk write about reputable art instead of disreputable art, sneak up on me without an idea of what piece of reputable art I’d write […]
If you pay any attention at all to popular Hindi cinema, then probably you will have heard of Sholay, often considered the best-loved Hindi movie of all time.* There is huge respect and affection for this film—for its cast, director, music, and script. Sometimes omitted from discussions of […]
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