Category: Film
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
Shake, Shake, Shake (It), Anora, Or: Pretty Woman This Is Not (Unless One Is Referring to the $3,000 Version Of It)
By now, it’s no secret that Sean Baker is known for his keen ability to give insight into the world of a certain kind of [Read More…]
Change Your Gender, (Maybe) Change Your Life: Emilia Pérez
If some story aspects of Emilia Pérez seem familiar, it’s because writer-director Jacques Audiard was inspired by a particular chapter in Boris Razon’s 2018 novel, [Read More…]
“…And Good Business Is The Best Art”: The Apprentice
Although director Ali Abbasi and writer Gabriel Sherman are certain to put a disclaimer title card at the beginning of The Apprentice that notes creative [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan Once Again References Past Movie Glory in Yet Another Commercial
Despite Lindsay Lohan’s rather limited filmography, it hasn’t stopped her from continually homing in on the main three movies that launched her into the spotlight—The [Read More…]
The Substance Joins The Ranks of Death Becomes Her With Regard to the Lengths Women Feel They Need to Go In Order to Stay Young
As far as movies about female aging go, Death Becomes Her has long been the gold standard (as Sabrina Carpenter recently wanted to remind in [Read More…]
On Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn as An Exemplification of Being a Poverty/Mental Illness Tourist
While people have chosen to lambast Joker: Folie à Deux for all the wrong reasons (mainly because it doesn’t fit in any way with the [Read More…]
Bad Romance: Joker: Folie à Deux Shows That Projection in Relationships Always Results in Dashed Expectations
In many ways, the real reason the sequel to Joker is called Joker: Folie à Deux has little to do with a shared delusion between [Read More…]
Joker: Folie à Deux: The Symbol Becomes More Powerful Than the Real Person Behind It
It was Todd Phillips himself who said that Joker was never intended to have a sequel. In many regards, that’s not what Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Beyond Brat Summer, Or: Why It Was A Summer of Americana Via The Bikeriders and “Tough”
In many ways, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and Lana Del Rey x Quavo’s “Tough” achieve the same dichotomous thing: acknowledging the death of what America [Read More…]
