Category: Film
The Continued Alignment of Diana and Britney: Controlling Britney Spears and the Trailer for Spencer
While one might merely chalk it up to coincidence that the full-length trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Spencer should be released right around the same day [Read More…]
A Festival of Cringeworthy Non Sequiturs
In Sunset Boulevard, semi-professional screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) gives one of many memorable voiceovers in the form of, “Sometimes it’s interesting to see just [Read More…]
What Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed Tells Us is the Kowalskis and Jamie Spears Should Get Together and Go Bowling
Of all the people one would least expect to have a sordid history, Bob Ross is right up there with, say, Jessica Simpson (who, yes, [Read More…]
Glitter and 9/11: The Crash-and-Burns of 2001
Over and over again, out of the many images of horror and carnage that get recycled from the historic day that was September 11, 2001, [Read More…]
Laura and The Night House: On Killing For Love
While Otto Preminger’s 1944 classic, Laura, and David Bruckner’s recent film, The Night House, might appear to be completely dissimilar, there is one essential aspect [Read More…]
Pierrot Le Fou’s Discourse on the Infection of Americanism in Europe and the Absurdity of Modern Society
As his bourgeois wife forces him to go to a party (one he would rather avoid) so that he can be introduced to the head [Read More…]
A Tale of Two Marnies: The Book Version and the Film Version
Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic [Read More…]
Jay Gatsby-Approved: Reminiscence
Maybe what feels unique about Reminiscence is that it’s the first dystopian neo-noir in an era when it’s categorically impossible to deny that we’re living [Read More…]
Thanks for Being Holier Than Thou: The Cinematic Gods Smiled Upon A League of Their Own When Debra Winger Backed Out Because Madonna Joined the Cast
In 1992, Madonna had quite a few “failures” under her belt. Specifically filmic ones. After her success with 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, in which many [Read More…]
Philadelphia As the True Main Character of Blow Out
While New York City might have been the town deemed “America’s seediest” in the 1980s, one shouldn’t overlook just how much Philadelphia lived up to [Read More…]
