At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about the star-studded Bollywood disaster movie, Burning Train (1980)! “This movie is everything the title promises plus so much more! Starring half of the 1980 film industry and putting most of them […]
[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]
1972’s Night of the Lepus is one of the last stalwarts of a grand storytelling tradition, all too rare in our decadent, expertise-skeptical times–a tradition that dares to preface the feature with a dry, informative lecture. No time to thread exposition into character-revealing events and dialogue; we begin […]
Anne Billson writes about disaster movies for Perspective. “You can’t say we weren’t warned. Our elected representatives might have been more aware of the speed at which a deadly virus can spread around the world if only they had paid more attention to films like Contagion, in which […]
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