The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan discuss Barbie (USA, 2023) and Zoolander (USA, 2001) on the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “What do Barbie, Zoolander, Pinocchio and The Velveteen Rabbit have in common? They’re all about non-living things (except for Zoolander who’s living but kinda a caricature) that […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth podcast watch David Byrne’s 1986 film, True Stories! “Directed by and starring David Byrne, True Stories (1986) tells the story of Virgil, Texas which is having its sesquicentennial anniversary and having a big talent show. We’re introduced to the unusual residents of […]
Hundreds of Beavers (USA, 2023) had me from the trailer. I knew I loved it from the moment when I saw a pair of rabbits—played by actors dressed in rabbit mascot suits—turn and look back at the camera. This was cinema, pure cinema. And the trailer didn’t lead […]
At The New Yorker, Inkoo Kang writes about turbulence in Hollywood. “To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that […]
At The Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace catch up with what they’ve been watching and more! “Werewolves! Malls! Soul survivors! We’ve got lots of it and more on this very special catchup. On the docket: Riverdale, Class of ‘07, V.C. Andrews’ […]
At the Criterion blog, Imogen Sara Smith writes about Noir Westerns. “Westerns cover a lot of territory. Dramatizing the most romantic of American myths, they also give form to the darkest inversions of those myths. The genre that celebrated rugged pioneer values and civilization’s conquest of the wilderness […]
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