Surya Gupta

The Beatles in costume (photo edited by me) Two weeks ago I was at this antique and costume store and was flipping through their DVD collection and came across this really bad-looking movie called ' Caveman' that just so happened to star Ringo Starr of the Beatles and also Dennis Quaid. I ended up watching off Tubi the other day, not something I'd recommend as it wasn't a very good film, but it opened the door to the wonderfully confusing relationship between the Cinema and the Beatles. As...

French New Wave is a beautiful part of cinematic history. A reinvention of cinema in a lot of senses, a rebirth, an urge to use something "old" and create something "new." Well Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, an homage to a giant of the era, Jean-Luc Godard, does none of that. Still for film, Nouvelle Vague (2025) Streaming on Netflix The film's greatest downfall is it's execution. The setting, concept, and characters are all quite interesting in theory, but the way they came together ...

Italian Poster for Sartana's Here.. Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin I recently watched I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death which is a film about Sartana, a gunslinger known for being really good at his job, a cowboy James Bond if you will. The second film in the Sartana series, between If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death, and Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin, you may notice they are named in a very interesting manner. I don't quite know why they are formatted like that but...