Wellbegun

In Roger Corman’s A Bucket of Blood, a chilling, and funny, view of creative people as entitled predators

Roger Corman’s 1959 film A Bucket of Blood turned out to be a wry comment on the idea that artists — “thinkers” — are superior to other, “ordinary” people.

Revisiting Mayabazar: How the opening scene sets the tone for this classic about two princes and a mischievous God

If you grew up watching Tamil or Telugu films anytime from the 1950s onward — or even had some knowledge of these cinemas — you would know Mayabazar, and its towering reputation, in the same way that Hindi-film viewers know of Sholay or Mughal-e-Azam.