Category: Film
An “Ear Witness”: The Sound and Fury of Blow Out
Each Brian De Palma film, in its own unique way, says something about the auteur’s self-perception, as well as his darkly tinctured views on this [Read More…]
Call Me By Your Name (Because You’re My Younger Self): How It Ends
“Do you know who you are?” reads the sign that appears among the establishing shots of Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein’s How It Ends, a [Read More…]
THE Suicide Squad Gets A Lot More Political Than Plain Ol’ Suicide Squad
In many critics’ and audiences’ opinions, 2016’s Suicide Squad was, shall we say, “not the best.” Yet, in numerous ways, it’s an underrated DC Comics-based [Read More…]
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain Delves Into the Psyche of a Man at Last Unable to Outrun His Pain
It was never a secret that Anthony Bourdain was not a particularly “rosy” sort of guy. But no one ever imagined that his perpetual state [Read More…]
Society’s Porcine Ways Revealed With Biting Subtlety in Pig
They say that it is the olfactory sense that is most closely linked to memory. But if Marcel Proust had anything to say about it [Read More…]
Last One to Die Please Turn Out the Light: Children of Men
The rhetoric of ingraining Britons with the idea that “only Britain soldiers on” while “the whole world has collapsed” seems only too relevant. Perhaps even [Read More…]
It’s Probably Time for the Government to Start Offering Quietus
Maybe it seemed “shocking” in 2006 when Children of Men first came out (and certainly when its book form did in 1992) that a government would peddle [Read More…]
Tarantino Meets Winding Refn: Gunpowder Milkshake Brings All the Male Influence to the Yard
Of course, when Quentin Tarantino’s quote, “Best film of the year!” was used as part of the poster for 2013’s Big Bad Wolves, it was [Read More…]
Black Widow and Its Parallel to Britney Spears’ Conservatorship
It seems almost too perfectly timed that a Black Widow script about male manipulation and mind control over women should come out the same year [Read More…]
Andrew McCarthy Makes A Case For …And Just Like That Being Better With, At the Very Least, Kim Cattrall’s Mannequin
Of all the people to have shut down the meme scene that arose in the wake of the first “major” promotional still to materialize from [Read More…]
