Month: February 2025
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco “Find A Third” in Gracie Abrams With “Call Me When You Break Up”
While Gracie Abrams might not be of a generation that even acknowledges voicemail as “a thing,” she is nonetheless part of a song that opens [Read More…]
Michelle Trachtenberg Was a Millennial Icon
While Hollywood has had plenty of premature deaths before, including those representing the millennial generation (e.g., well, Aaron Carter), something feels different about the sudden [Read More…]
What It Says That Both Madonna and Lady Gaga Are Feeling the Push to “Return to Their Musical Roots”
When Confessions on a Dance Floor came out in 2005, it was preceded by Madonna’s big announcement that she was going “back to her roots” (i.e., the [Read More…]
Something Deeply Troubling Is Happening to the Integrity of Film Acting, With Casting Decisions at the Root of the Problem
Perhaps it’s the modern equivalent of a “casting couch.” This new trend of being cast on the basis of one’s social media prowess. Between Maya and Ethan [Read More…]
It’s a (Hurts so Good) Knife When the Old Fans Troll the New Fans: On Charli XCX’s “party 4 u” Going Viral
While Charli XCX might have sung, “It’s a knife when the mean fans hate the nice fans” on her remix of “Sympathy is a knife” [Read More…]
Marina x Madonna: The “Butterfly” Video
By now, it should be fairly obvious that there’s no pop star who has come after her that Madonna hasn’t greatly influenced. Regardless of whether [Read More…]
The Metamorphosis of MARINA Is Complete With “Butterfly”
It was already apparent earlier this year, with the release of her first poetry collection, Eat the World, that MARINA has had butterflies on her brain. [Read More…]
The Gorge: Like If Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” Video, The Last of Us and Alien(s) Had a Baby
As a movie like You’re Cordially Invited has recently shown, it’s becoming more and more of a challenge for audiences to swallow romance “whole.” Because to attempt [Read More…]
Companion’s Iris Owes a Debt to Blade Runner’s Rachael
In one of the first trailers for Companion, Drew Hancock’s directorial and screenplay debut, little is revealed about the “big twist” of the movie. It’s only [Read More…]
Parthenope: A Love/Hate Letter to Youth, Naples
The name Parthenope has a dual meaning when referring to Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie. On the geographical side, it alludes to the ancient Greek settlement [Read More…]
