Category: Film
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?: The Artist That Doesn’t Create Becomes A Menace to Society, But The True Artist IS A Menace to Society
A far cry from the likes of Slacker or A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s underrated adaptation of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is perhaps [Read More…]
Zola Highlights How Misogyny Thrives Because Women Still Doubt Themselves Enough to Believe They *Need* Men
There are many questions one who can’t know what the stripper/prostitution life is truly like might ask themselves throughout Zola. But the foremost one is: [Read More…]
Hustlers and Zola Accent the Pratfalls of a Friendship Founded on Hoedom
Just like another well-received stripper movie of late, Hustlers, Zola, too, is based on a true story. But rather than originating from an article, Zola [Read More…]
Spring Breakers, Stripper Edition: Zola
They say the truth is always stranger than fiction, and in A’ziah “Zola” King’s case, that’s very true indeed. For how else could a 148-tweet [Read More…]
There Are Many Issues With Fatale—A Fatal Attraction Rip-off—But Making L.A. Look Fly Is Not One of Them
Lately, it seems as though directors are so entranced with the idea of making an “L.A. movie,” that they don’t bother too much with worrying [Read More…]
Get A Clue and Its Tinges of Clueless and Gossip Girl
On the precipice of fully blowing up in the mid-00s, Lindsay Lohan put in her time with some less appreciated Disney movies in between The [Read More…]
Parodying Gender Identity in But I’m A Cheerleader
As Pride Month begins to cum to a close, it’s important to remember that, for most of the rest of the year, the straights and [Read More…]
Death of a Cheerleader and the Lengths A Girl Will Go to Feel Part of the “Right” Class
It was appropriately coined in the 80s by Cyndi Lauper that “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” Though it would take a few decades for t-shirts [Read More…]
Wrath of Toxic Masculinity: Guy Ritchie’s Latest Displays A Comical Disregard for the Present
Maybe it was only a matter of time before Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2004 movie, Le Convoyeur, was bound to be remade. Called Cash Truck en anglais [Read More…]
Mare of Easttown’s (Non-Supernatural) Twin Peaks Feels
The rave reviews for Mare of Easttown are, of course, unsurprising considering how Kate Winslet refuses to participate in any project that won’t get the [Read More…]
