At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about the star-studded Bollywood disaster movie, Burning Train (1980)! “This movie is everything the title promises plus so much more! Starring half of the 1980 film industry and putting most of them […]
[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]
At the Guardian, Stuart Jeffries writes about Brannon Carty’s documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine (USA, 2025) and the fans who love the show. “It celebrates the men (and the fans Carty interviews are overwhelmingly male) who have found friendship, community and creativity […]
Filmoteca Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has restored Gabriel García Moreno’s pulp adventure film The Ghost Train (Mexico, 1926) and given it a great new score. And you can watch it here for free! (Thanks to the excellent Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently!)
This week Guest Star Aditi Sen writes about ghosts and plagues. ~~~ When a galley ship docked in Messina with all its crew members dead, the villagers quickly decided to take the crew’s belongings, either for themselves or to barter. The year was 1347; within a year, the […]
Previously on Cahiers du Cannon, Guest Star Jessica Ritchey wrote about Castaway (1986) and Street Smart (1987). One of the queasier aspects of life in the early 21st century is the internet’s ability to annoint a hero and tear them to pieces minutes later. Someone is found to […]
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