At Empire, John Woo talked a bit about making a musical with Ron and Russell Mael. Read that here. And more recently at Variety, Ron and Russell Mael talk about making a movie with John Woo in an interview about Sparks’ Mad album. Read that here.
This week the Gutter celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with this fine essay by the CG Editor Emeritus Keith Allison. ~~~ I was fifteen, pulling the ol’ “spending the night at a friend’s house” scam so I could sneak off and indulge […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about the life and career of filmi superstar, Preity Zinta! “She’s the fun, flirty girl next door but also spunky, defiant and strong. Preity Zinta is almost as well known for […]
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 […]
Even if you don’t watch Indian films, I can promise you that you’ve very probably seen, or at least heard, some of this movie. It gave the world an incredibly infectious song that crossed international borders to appear on tv with The Cramps, on stage with California band […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate the 20th anniversary of Veer Zaara (2004)! “Veer Zara celebrates its 20 year anniversary and Pitu and Beth disagree on basically everything about it. 😆 The only things we agree on: • Preity’s cute outfits […]
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