At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “the Filmi Jodi of Amar Singh Chamkila and his singing partner and wife Amarjot. This Netflix biopic is a meeting of three genius minds: director Imtiaz Ali, music composer A R Rahman and actor/singer Diljit Dosanjh.” […]
Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]
New at Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at Murder Mubarak (2024). “We discuss the new murder mystery on Netflix, Murder Mubarak, and end up discussing nepo babies, why it’s dangerous to go to the gym, Sara Ali Khan’s haircut, which drunk […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch the Indian adaptation of The Archies and so much more! Listen here.
At Smithsonian Magazine, Jacquelyne Germaine writes about Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai. “Though the Netflix series introduces several mystical elements—including giant flying robots, magical armies and weaponized laser beams—the broad strokes of its depiction of the Honnoji Incident are historically accurate. Yasuke was an African warrior in the […]
Dobaaraa, a Hindi-language film released earlier this year, stands in intriguing contrast to mainstream Indian cinema’s habits, not just in how this compelling remake handles it source material but also just more generally as a contemporary project. It is one of only a handful of Indian adaptations of […]
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