Category: Film
Snowblown: Lacey Chabert Lives Out a Fantasy More Suited for a Bodice-Ripping Romance Novel Than a Would-Be Hallmark Movie in Hot Frosty
Perhaps now more than ever, it’s a woman’s belief that the only way to gain access to a truly desirable (read: non-assholish) man is via [Read More…]
Sadly, There’s Nothing Heretical About Heretic
For a movie with a title as “provocative” as Heretic, one might be expecting the ultimate message of the story to be, well, heretical. In [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words Reconfirms That There Is No System in Place to Safeguard Women in the Music Industry
More and more, the conversation about protection—especially for women—for those coming up in the music industry keeps being brought to the fore. Earlier this year, [Read More…]
Mescal/Pascal: Gladiator II, Or: The Return of the Gladiator Sausage Party Arrives at Yet Another Timely Moment in U.S. Political History
When Gladiator arrived in theaters in May of 2000, there was about to be a changing of the guard in U.S. politics. That is to [Read More…]
The Promising Young Woman Vibes of Strange Darling
Although JT Mollner might have given the world a feature length debut that was a Western (specifically, Outlaws and Angels), he was so clearly destined [Read More…]
The Wisdom of Youth: My Old Ass
The common belief goes: “If I had it to do all over again, I would do everything differently.” The scenario presented in Megan Park’s My [Read More…]
Martha and Megan: Two Documentaries With a Timely Lens Focused on Misogyny
On the heels of Donald Trump incomprehensibly being elected president, two documentaries about very distinctly different women (who’ve both endured the same kind of misogyny [Read More…]
Woman of the Hour and Saoirse Ronan on The Graham Norton Show: Two Key Moments in “The Culture” Right Now That Tell a Larger Story
In a now viral moment on The Graham Norton Show that, to Saoirse Ronan, came as a complete surprise, the actress casually “quips” (while being [Read More…]
The Voss Water Repetition in Smile 2 and What It Says About Film Product Placement Today
Perhaps even more than the various terrifying scenes of Smile 2, what audiences are seeming to remember most after seeing Parker Finn’s sequel is the [Read More…]
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…]
