Category: Film
The Day After Tomorrow Is Today
With the prognostication that polar bears are doomed to go the way of the dodo by 2100, one can’t help but think of paleoclimatologist Jack [Read More…]
Unable to Get A Mean Girls Reunion, Lindsay Lohan Settles For A The Parent Trap One
After years of being the most desperate cast member–despite being the film’s “star” (though we all know it was Rachel McAdams)–to finagle a Mean Girls [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
All Superheroes Wear Capes: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Walter Mercado was in the business of psychic energy before it was a co-optable millennial trend. Shit, even before Miss Cleo made it to TV. [Read More…]
The Old Guard: Death Becomes Her But With Purer Intentions
The ennui–the sheer “I’ve seen it all” aura–that goes with the territory of living for “too long” (which, yes, is very much a thing) already [Read More…]
Beauty and the Beast With BDSM: Why 365 Days Is Simultaneously Loved and Despised By Women
With the reckoning on how to portray male-female relationships in the wake of #MeToo, a film like 365 Days could, of course, never get made [Read More…]
Why Drop Dead Gorgeous is the Perfect 4th of July Movie Now More Than Ever
In 1999, America was still riding high on the buzz of its prosperity, wrought in large part by Bill Clinton, whose personal scandals overshadowed many [Read More…]
Reign of Puerility: The King of Staten Island
It’s easy to be the king when not many people are vying for your dominion. In Scott Carlin’s (Pete Davidson) case, that would be Staten [Read More…]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Reunion Comes at a Time When the Overt Privilege of the Lead Character is Especially Icky to Look At
As the hotbed issue of privilege continues to manifest throughout the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, it seems irreverently (in)appropriate that the cast [Read More…]
Emotional Queen: Ariana Grande Dressing as Midsommar’s Dani Ardor
When it comes to bringing her esoteric (by normal people standards) costume A game, Ariana Grande is undeniably the winner in terms of mainstream pop [Read More…]
