At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their superstar series with a look at Rani Mukherji! “Beth has been waiting for this episode for years: it’s finally time to talk about her very favorite star. And the thing is, […]
At The Tate blog, Susan Owens writes about how ghosts and spirits have changed. “I was intrigued to find the idea of the dead returning to their old homes so entrenched in the British imagination, and it made me reflect on the place ghosts have in our culture. […]
At the Denver Public Library’s Saturday Afternoon Film Discussion, “Actor, director and producer Alex Winter (act. Bill & Ted film series; act. The Lost Boys; dir. Zappa) joined film critic Walter Chaw on December 5th 2020 to discuss Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 haunting masterpiece, Ugetsu.” Watch here.
The Independent Lens has a look at Funk and Black Liberation. “‘WE WANT THE FUNK!,’ a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spans from gospel, soul, highlife, and early jazz roots, to its rise and impact on new wave and hip-hop, as funk music has been […]
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, […]