Category: Film
A Generational Divide Intermixes With the Amélie and Frances Ha Qualities of The Worst Person in The World
Amélie is arguably a film that defined a genre. Described as a “fanciful comedy about a young woman…creating a world exclusively of her own making,” [Read More…]
Senior Year: Never Been Kissed With A Coma Angle, Or: A Millennial Falls for the Gen Z Outlook
Speaking to us from the vantage point of having already endured “the shit” going down, there’s something very Easy A about the intro moments to [Read More…]
J. Lo’s Halftime Is A Hodgepodge That Accents Her “Britney Treatment” in the 00s
The music documentary, or “rockumentary,” usually tends to focus on a particular tour that the musician in question is on. As a genre fine-tuned by [Read More…]
The 355, James Bond and Why Heavy-Handed Feminism Doesn’t Work in Female Spy Movies That Take Themselves Seriously
With a cast as star-studded as The 355’s, it was one of many box office shocks in 2022 (including the runaway success of Top Gun: [Read More…]
In Les Amours d’Anaïs, Acting on Attraction Can Be More Than a Mere “Experience”
It’s no secret that something happens to “old people” to make them disbelieve in such “jejune notions” as “true love.” For, after disappointments and/or abandonments, [Read More…]
On How Sean and Madonna Should Have Starred in Blind Date Instead of Shanghai Surprise
Blind Date is one of many 80s movies that serves as more of a footnote in pop culture than a “main event” (à la E.T. [Read More…]
Body is (Un)Reality: Crimes of the Future
With such a title, one would think Crimes of the Future might show a more escalated version of cyber warfare or even technological advancements in [Read More…]
On the Count of Three Serves That Rare Genre: The “Suicide Buddy Movie”
Addressing suicide “comedically” is one of the impossible feats in general, but most especially in film. Maybe that’s why the “suicide buddy movie” doesn’t happen [Read More…]
Ageism Is the Safe Bet for “Humor Rebranding” in Top Gun: Maverick
“Oh my god. This thing is so old,” Rooster (Miles Teller) says at one point when he’s given no choice but to board an F-14 [Read More…]
Top Gun Is Homoerotic Republican Porn
It feels like one of many ironies that Top Gun was ultimately the product of an Israel-born Jewish man. For in writing an article for [Read More…]
