At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss two action-thriller movies directed by Feroz Khan! “If ‘Feroz Khan’=’more is more,’ then the theme of today’s episode is More More Is More. How perfectly filmi! We needed to escape the […]
You may have seen that rad poster Drew Struzan created for Joseph Ruben’s 1984 movie, Dreamscape. It’s the one with a smirking Dennis Quaid holding a torch while creepy heads float on the sides, implying an over-the-top, Indiana Jones-like escapade. That doesn’t strike an accurate tone, and it’s not the whole story.
At The Movie Sleuth, friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner has a nice piece on a recent adaptation of Stephen King, The Long Walk (USA, 2025). “One of the unifying features of King’s work, when writing as Bachman, is the prevailing nihilism of the stories and the bleak […]
At Monstrous Industry, the Gutter’s own Carol lists some of her favorite pieces and doings from 2025. See them here.
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, thrills and stories Hitchcock built his films on. Hitchcock himself gave credit where it was due. He put writers’ names on screen for everyone to see. But if film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history.
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo–and his pal, Karen Shute–continues to watch films at an astounding pace at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025: Good Boy; Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5; Exit 8; and, The Smashing Machine! We are officially at the halfway mark of TIFF, and boy […]
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