Category: Film
Her Smell: The Collision of the Id and the Ego in the Female Rock Star Makes for Some Very Awkward Moments
While the exploration of the male rock star has been done time and time again (think Velvet Goldmine, Almost Famous, That Thing You Do! and, [Read More…]
Murder Mystery: The Tourist Meets Ocean’s Twelve Meets Murder on the Orient Express in a Blender–And Also Rich People Do Fucked Up Things
Taking into account the ever-waning ability of audiences to digest the rom-com, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler have reteamed after 2011’s Just Go With It [Read More…]
The Shrinking Violet’s Need to Stand Out Through Ho-dom: A Perpetuated Stereotype in Looking for Mr. Goodbar
As the somewhat derogatorily called “women’s movement” raged on in the 70s, it was only natural that the media was going to jump on the [Read More…]
Ostracism’s No Party: Ma
As one of the elements of bullying still largely unaddressed by the so-called bleeding hearts of primarily liberals, ostracism factors in heavily to the lifelong [Read More…]
It Doesn’t Take Rocketman’s Surrealist Portrayal of Elton John’s Life to Note the Psychology Behind His Cuntery: He Just Wanted Love, But It Was Impossible
In at least partial response to acting as director of Bohemian Rhapsody for two weeks (though he didn’t receive credit for that time, with Bryan [Read More…]
Greta (Does Not Want to Be Alone)
In keeping with certain themes about New York–1) you’ll never make enough friends for anyone to notice your absence quickly enough and 2) it’s like [Read More…]
The Dead Don’t Die (Or Stop Wanting Coffee, Or WiFi Or Xanax) And That’s Part of Why We’re In A Boschian Hellscape
Never one to shy from the hyper-metaness of existence in his work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest, The Dead Don’t Die, is in every way an unbridled [Read More…]
Marnie Proves It Takes A Special Kind of Man to Endure the Effects of A Woman’s Childhood Trauma
Based on Winston Graham’s 1961 novel, Marnie is arguably a showcase of Alfred Hitchcock at his perverse best. For no British director of his time [Read More…]
Quentin Tarantino Has A Bret Easton Ellis Moment in “Rejecting A Hypothesis” During Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Press Conference
As the excitement mounts even now–in an era of extreme contempt for machismo–for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (when considering Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 [Read More…]
2015 and 2016: The Years of Remaking The Little Mermaid Into A Stripper
Like Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s 2015 debut, The Lure (its original Polish name being The Daughters of the Dance), 2016’s Little Mermaid sought to make the original [Read More…]