Category: Film
Georgia Rule: Lindsay Lohan’s Least Watched Movie Is Also Likely Her Best as a Result of Certain Autobiographical Elements
While there are, to be sure, plenty of “films” in the Lindsay Lohan oeuvre that have been underlooked in the era called post-Mean Girls (Just [Read More…]
Critical Mass (Murder): Velvet Buzzsaw
Perhaps only feeling comfortable enough to get at his freakiest with Jake Gyllenhaal as his muse, mostly screenwriter Dan Gilroy has seen fit to, once [Read More…]
Never Look Away Posits Not Only an Impressionistic Version of Gerhard Richter’s Life, But Also the Blurred Lines of Oppressive Politics
When taking into account that the last movie Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck released was the under appreciated, generally poorly reviewed The Tourist (the final Hollywood [Read More…]
If You Thought Detachment Spurred by Celebrity Covetousness & Social Media Was New, Just Remember The Bling Ring
While we remain quick to accuse the present moment as the zenith of a low point in society in terms of just how self-obsessed, hollow [Read More…]
Un Amour de Jeunesse… Est Un Amour Que Vous Marque Pour Toujours
“I’ll always love you and never know why,” Camille (Lola Créton) earnestly, melancholically and dramatically tells Sullivan after eight years of separation at his own [Read More…]
Love Is Witchcraft: Bell, Book and Candle
As a more under the radar “Christmas movie,” Bell, Book and Candle serves to stress the point that every rom-com before and since has wanted [Read More…]
Mary Poppins: Child Gaslighter/Royal Doulton Whore
While Emily Blunt has stated time and again that Mary Poppins Returns is more “homage” to the original than anything else, it has to be [Read More…]
Hormones Are Wasted on the Young: Monkey Business
While there is so much wasted on the self-conscious, yet simultaneously overly arrogant young, perhaps even more than youth itself being unjustly expended on them [Read More…]
Squinting Hard Enough to See the Feminist Slant of Almost Famous
In 2000, when Harvey Weinstein was still experiencing his raping and pillaging glory days, it was, in all honesty, almost impossible to think of a [Read More…]
The Sopranos & Meadow Soprano: Born of Trees Lounge & Chloë Sevigny
As the hype surrounding The Sopranos has been rekindled in the same way as that other show from HBO’s “Golden Era,” Sex and the City, [Read More…]
