Category: Film
Daughter of Del Rey: Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die” Is the Most Non Bond-Like Theme Yet–And That’s A Good Thing
It was arguably in 1973, with Paul McCartney & Wings stepping up to perform “Live and Let Die” for the Bond film of the same [Read More…]
Possessed by Aphrodite: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Jenny Han’s widely successful To All the Boys YA series was, of course, always destined to be adapted into an according film trilogy. The tale [Read More…]
Birds of Prey: The Album: As Much of an Instant Classic as the Movie
With Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) as the bona fide anarchistic hero(ine) of 2020 (sorry Joker, your time has come and gone), Birds of Prey could [Read More…]
Some Thoughts On Birds of Prey’s Disappointing Box Office Numbers
With the box office receipts from Birds of Prey’s opening weekend officially tabulated, the numbers have revealed two rather shocking statistics: 1) the audience that [Read More…]
Miss Americana: Taylor Swift Still Clearly Wants to Be America’s Sweetheart With An “Edge”
It’s no secret that Taylor Swift has been “changing.” That she’s been “evolving” to a point where she’s finally comfortable enough to feel unmuzzled about [Read More…]
Where Depraved Housewives are Concerned, Betty Draper Has Nothing On Hunter Conrad in Swallow
As far as The Bell Jar moments go in terms of applying to housewives forcing themselves to be resigned to watching any other potential they [Read More…]
Putting A Moratorium on “Barracuda” to Connote Female Empowerment
In the same way it appears to be a requirement to use New Order’s “Blue Monday” to indicate it’s the 80s (most recently manifest in [Read More…]
No “Gentlemen” in England…Nor in the Tacit Generational Power Struggle: Guy Ritchie’s Latest Is A Biting Statement on Young Vs. Old
After the overt “for the paycheck” movie that was the live action remake of Aladdin last year, Guy Ritchie has seen fit to re-prove his [Read More…]
Neurotic, Neurotic/Put Your Paws All Over Dolittle’s Neglected Body
In the face of Dolittle’s unanimous, Serenity-level panning (an unfortunate turn of events for the studio responsible for its release–Universal–that perhaps overly delights in the [Read More…]
The Difference Between Rich People “Making Lemonade Out of Lemons” vs. Broke Asses Having To Simply Eat Old, Bitter Half-Lemons: Parasite
To truly understand just how stuck in one’s station in life they are from the time of birth–how utterly irrelevant the myth of “capitalism” is–one [Read More…]
