Category: Film
An Imagining of Madonna’s Biopic With A Jennifer’s Body Tone
While Jennifer’s Body continues to be vindicated as time wears on and people suddenly realize how on-trend a boy-eating bisexual cheerleader is, it appears as [Read More…]
Ratched: A Show That Could Just As Easily Not Be Billed As Being About Nurse Ratched, So Much As One About Psychos in Positions of Authority in The Mental Health Industry
While Ryan Murphy does so love to make his shows centered around icons of pop culture, his latest series, Ratched, the supposed origin story of [Read More…]
After They Wake Up: There’s A Reason John Carpenter Couldn’t Give an Epilogue to They Live
As the 80s drew to a close, the hangover that was to come as a result of the excess was already brewing. The effects of [Read More…]
Carrie Bradshaw Lives Inside The Matrix, Ergo New York Is The Matrix
Cogito, ergo sum. That’s the philosophical aphorism Descartes left us with. But no one said that just because you think, you’re actually delving into what’s [Read More…]
The Rest Of Us: A Unique Glimpse Into the Dynamic of “Starter” Family vs. New Family
After years spent working on short films and documentaries, Canadian writer-director Aisling Chin-Yee finally saw fit to give us a full-length feature, The Rest of [Read More…]
Arrested Development, Paris Hilton Edition: What the Latest Documentary on the Socialite Reveals
If you asked anyone their immediate perception of Paris Hilton, they would either blink at you absently like you’re insane and pretend they haven’t thought [Read More…]
Antebellum (Not Lady) Borrows From the Running Out of Time Playbook of Plot Twists
For those who remember a bit of plagiarism controversy when M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie, The Village, first came out, it was because of the [Read More…]
I Used To Go Here: No One Cares
“It could be better.” This is the final line of Kris Rey’s I Used To Go Here, as though to goad its audience in a [Read More…]
Linklater and Lynch in a Blender: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
As such an all-encompassing, yet little used in real life phrase, “I’m thinking of ending things” packs a weighty punch as an internal sentiment. Those [Read More…]
There Still Remains No More Uncomfortable Moment in Recent Cinema History Than When Liza Minnelli Materialized in Sex and the City 2 to Sing “Single Ladies”
For whatever reason, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” remains one of Beyoncé’s biggest hits despite the fact that it is one of her [Read More…]
