Category: Film
Your Place or Mine Pulls From The Holiday and A Lot Like Love For a Banal Effect
It seems telling that the intro to Aline Brosh McKenna’s latest rom-com, Your Place or Mine, is set in the 00s. Namely, 2003. We’re hit [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #46: The Inquiry Into Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nomination
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
If Only Britney Spears’ Sons Were As Protective and Supportive As Pamela Anderson’s
It hasn’t taken many people long to notice an unfortunate comparison between how Pamela Anderson’s two sons treat their mother versus Britney Spears’ (with Spears [Read More…]
Celluloid Immortality Doesn’t Make A Slow Career Death Any Less Painful: Babylon
There is Old Hollywood and then there is Germinal Hollywood (“Silent Era” Hollywood, if you prefer). The latter has been less a fascination in the [Read More…]
Resignedly Independent: Pamela, A Love Story
For those in search of the modern-day answer to the goddess of love, there is no better example of an American (North American, to be [Read More…]
Dog Gone, Or: Dogs Are Not (Capitalist) Pigs
It would be easy to write the film adaptation of Dog Gone off as “treacle,” “schmaltz,” “overwrought tripe,” etc.—which, in fact, a large majority of [Read More…]
Shotgun Wedding: J. Lo’s Attempt at Sandra Bullock Greatness in The Lost City
In the spirit of “action-adventure rom-coms” that have lately come back into favor, Shotgun Wedding continues the tradition of this niche with the “twist” of [Read More…]
A Uniquely American (The) “Whale” of a Tale
The Whale wastes no time in cutting to the quick of human desperation and sadness. As most stage plays tend to do. And yes, the [Read More…]
To Leslie: A Semi-Realistic Fairy Tale
As Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman once said, “People put you down enough, you start to believe it.” That statement couldn’t be any truer for [Read More…]
More Generational Shade Is Coughed Up in Sick
COVID-19, despite being an ongoing “phenomenon,” is presently something that the masses prefer to “relegate” to “the past.” And, being that it currently feels like [Read More…]
