Category: Film
Joker: The Most Offensive White People Movie at the Oscars Since La La Land
Let us go back to a simpler time. The late summer of 2016. People were still enraged about white male domination, but it hadn’t become [Read More…]
Brad’s Status Is The Same As the Rest Of Ours, Or: No One Is Actually As Into You As You Are
There is no denying the precise motive behind Mike White setting the stage for 2017’s Brad’s Status in Sacramento. It is the perfect place for [Read More…]
Like A Boss Doesn’t Do Much to Debunk The Myth of Women in Power Being Mondo Cunts
While, at face value, Like A Boss (directed by Miguel Arteta, who slightly damages his street cred with this movie after offerings like Beatriz at [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Company Culture Is A Palimpsest of Those at the Top: Bombshell
When it comes to women who helped blaze the trail for a new wave of feminism, of course Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron, eerily adopting her [Read More…]
Long Shot Short-Changes the Embracing of More Powerful Women in Relationships By Rendering the Narrative With Fairy Tale Flavor
In the realm of “modern” fairy tales, perhaps all we have to speak of in the present is Long Shot. A politically tinged comedy (or [Read More…]
Contemplating Something As Retro As What’s Your Number? Being Made Within the Past Decade
Despite 2011 being an early year in the decade that feels strange to call the 10s (even if some people speculate that the 00s never [Read More…]
Every Generation Becomes Worse Than the Last: Gremlins
As each year passes, and Gremlins evermore secures a place in the must-see canon of Christmas movies (even if unconventional ones in the vein of [Read More…]
Uncut Gems Has A Dull Luster
One could say that the Safdie brothers Benny and Josh were not truly born into the film industry’s consciousness until 2017’s Good Time, another New [Read More…]
It’s No Mystery That Knives Out Cuts to the Quick of Family Discord: Money
Rian Johnson has taken an approach to his career that few writer-directors do: slowly. Starting in 2005 with the acclaimed neo-film noir Brick (starring his [Read More…]
