Category: Film
Before The Bitch Who Stole Christmas, the Gayest Xmas Movie Was A Diva’s Christmas Carol
It’s been far too long since VH1 has presented us with a really gay Christmas movie. And the fact that the last time they went [Read More…]
The Souvenir Part II Accentuates What Has Always Been the Case: The Rich Are Permitted the Luxury to Make Art that Tells “Their” Story, Or a Version of It
Everyone is very eager to classify Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II as “a movie about making a movie.” It makes everything “neatly” identifiable, which [Read More…]
Bad Accent Competition: House of Gucci
One would like to go into House of Gucci with an open mind, of course. And yet, it’s a challenge to do so when any [Read More…]
In Subtle Yet Palpable Ways, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Accents the Destitution of the Present in Comparison to the 80s
While Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been played up as a film filled with the kind of nostalgia that fans can surely appreciate, the “third installment” is [Read More…]
Chopstick Killer: Titane Would be Totally Original Were It Not For the Fetishists of Crash
After the “underground” success of 2016’s Raw, Julia Ducournau’s second feature film (third, if you count her TV movie, Mange), Titane, has been met with [Read More…]
More Complex Fembots—Or Rather, Menbots: I’m Your Man
It’s a “fantasy” that keeps coming up again and again. Perhaps because it feels so close to becoming a reality, what with Grimes assuring us [Read More…]
On the Inside But Still on the Outside: Spencer
“A fable from a true tragedy,” cautions the caption of the first frame from Pablo Larraín’s much-anticipated “biopic” of Princess Diana, called simply: Spencer. With [Read More…]
Sandie and Britney: Last Night in Soho Calls Out How Women with Entertainment Aspirations Are Automatically Assumed to Be “Prostitution Material”
Britney, too, just wanted to sing. That was her big dream. Much like Sandie’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. What no [Read More…]
Last Night in Paris
As Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, gains the praise it deserves, one can’t help but reflect on how Wright is tapping into [Read More…]
Ghosts of Dicks Past: Male Lechery and Nostalgia’s Intertwinement with Capitalism in Last Night in Soho
*disclaimer to self-involved NYC residents: Soho referred to a neighborhood in London before it ever referred to the commercialized atrocity filled with people attempting to [Read More…]
