Category: Film
Yes, Just What the Screenwriter Needed–Another Dig At Their Insignificance
While there seems to be a premium on being hyper-sensitive toward offending others in the present climate of Hollywood, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph seemed [Read More…]
Why It Was More Significant for Glenn Close to Win the Golden Globe for Best Actress Than Lady Gaga
As Hollywood becomes increasingly determined to make good on their promise about incorporating equality at every level of the industry, the Hollywood Foreign Press seemed [Read More…]
Roma: Cleaning Waters Run Deep
If there could be one word used to describe Alfonso Cuarón’s latest, Roma, it would have to be water. Even more than, say, a movie [Read More…]
If Beale Street Could Talk…It Would Tell You That Love Is A Bitch
By the time James Baldwin’s fifth novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, came out in 1974, he had already defected to the south of France–had [Read More…]
A Simple Favor: If Serena Van Der Woodsen Had A Mouth on Her
In the period since Blake Lively has graduated from her millennial Carrie Bradshaw role (sorry Lena Dunham) as Serena Van Der Woodsen, her film choices [Read More…]
A Pure Artist Can’t Promote: Finding Vivian Maier
It is said, most especially in the twenty-first century–what with the “democratization” of the internet–that an artist can no longer “just be” an artist. They [Read More…]
Teacups, Wife Manipulation and Bateman Possession: Vice
Adam McKay, a longtime collaborator of former George W. Bush impersonator Will Ferrell (whose Gary Sanchez Productions had a hand in creating Vice), has a [Read More…]
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Shit–Unless It’s Dolly Parton: Dumplin’
Seeming to have a certain appetite for the pageant genre and the emotional turmoil it can cause (see: Insatiable), Netflix has seen fit to bring [Read More…]
Toss Maid in Manhattan & Pretty Woman in the Screenplay Blender and You Have Second Act
With thirty-two film credits to her name, starting with her first role in 1986’s My Little Girl, Jennifer Lopez is more “movie star” than singer [Read More…]
Google Assistant Ad With Macaulay Culkin Proves All Movie Plots Should Just Be Set in the Past Now
It only took three years since the first episode of Jack Dishel’s :DRYVRS for Macaulay Culkin to once more reboot another sendup of his most [Read More…]
