Category: Film
Tom Cruise Being the Self-Imposed Hero of the Film Industry Was Probably Written in the Stars
While Tom Cruise has come to be increasingly less respected over the past couple decades as both actor and human being, no one had ever [Read More…]
In Honor of Wonder Woman 1984, DC Heroines (and Villainesses) Cast As 80s Pop Stars
With the upcoming release of Wonder Woman 1984 at last firmly secured (or is it?) for Christmas Day, Gal Godot is back in the role [Read More…]
Freaky: It Takes Being A White Male Serial Killer to Gain Confidence
Christopher Landon, who has by now firmly established his capabilities with the thriller/horror genre (e.g. Disturbia and Paranormal Activity 2, 3 and 4), of late, [Read More…]
Let Them All Talk (‘Cause They All Sure Can’t Read)
“Oh god there must be a better way–there must be a better way to describe things, to arrange words, a new way to use words [Read More…]
In Fatal Attraction Fashion, Contagion Undercuttingly Positions Infidelity/Hoedom As the Cause of Society’s Woes
The beginning of Steven Soderbergh’s now iconic film, Contagion, wastes no time in making a point about how bad girls who do bad things (and [Read More…]
Contagion’s Unemotional Approach To Presenting A Novel Virus’ Creation and Chaos
Back in January, when coronavirus was nothing more than “China’s problem” to most Americans, Contagion, as a “relevant revisit,” started to rise up the ranks [Read More…]
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up Attempts A Sort of Manic Pixie Dream Boy Plot Excepts He’s A Brooklyn Kidult
Of course, no couple wants to believe they’re going to be yet another drop in the massive ocean of failed and/or misguided relationships. Some, however, [Read More…]
Donald T and Rudy G: Giving the Death Becomes Her Broads A Run For Their Money
Perhaps the analogy dripped into one’s consciousness right around the time Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye started to. This notion that Donald “Orange One” Trump and [Read More…]
The Life Ahead Is Sophia Loren’s Love Letter to the Southern Italian Philosophy That Life’s Ugliness Contains Beauty… While Tempering It With A Statement on Migrants
Perhaps for no one else would Sophia Loren come out of her unspoken retirement than her own son, Edoardo Ponti. Her youngest son, Ponti possesses [Read More…]
