Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber!
So many Kino Lorber documentaries to watch and you can watch them here. (Thanks, Stephanie, and via Open Culture).
The Filmi Ladies on Indian Superstar Madhubala!
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan talk about the Indian Golden Age Superstar Madhubala on the Filmi Ladies podcast! “What can we say? She’s so talented, so funny, so beautiful, so lush! We deliberately chose some less-discussed movies from her filmography: yes, we do Mahal (1949), […]
(Kinda) Like A Dragon–Takashi Miike’s Ryu ga gotoku (2007)
Video game adaptations have a rocky history in film. For every good-to-ok one, like Mortal Kombat (1994), Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) or Werewolves Within (2021), there are scores of films that don’t do justice to their digital counterparts. The K:D ratio* just isn’t great for these movies, partly […]
Filmi Ladies on Qala
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins joins Pitu Sultan to discuss Anvita Dutt’s new film Qala (India, 2022). “We LOVED Anvita Dutt’s new film Qala on Netflix…until we didn’t, though we have different reasons for that. Yes: having a point of view, evocative design, complicated mother-daughter relationships, Tripti Dimri […]
“An Elegy for Shudder”
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about some concerning changes at the streaming service, Shudder: “C-suite shuffling wouldn’t normally be a topic for The Week in Horror, but this particular round of cutbacks claimed Craig Engler, the general manager of this writer’s favourite horror outlet, Shudder. In the […]
Filmi Ladies bare fangs and claws!
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan discuss Indian monster movies on Filmi Ladies! “Pitu watched Bhediya in the cinema, then ran straight home to do this episode! To recap: SHE LOVES IT! We discuss the Ramsay Brothers oeuvre and other Indian monster-y films (namely Junoon) and […]
The Cultural Gutter 