Category: Film
“This Isn’t Vanity, This Is Art”: Suspiria
At the end of Luca Guadagnino’s interpretation of the Dario Argento classic giallo, Suspiria, an audience member balks, “That was so bad.” It would seem [Read More…]
Mother’s Day Bizarrely Foreshadowed The American Comfortableness With Racism in the 2016 Election
In an unfortunate testament to the idea that the older you get as an artist, the more out of touch your work becomes, Garry Marshall [Read More…]
An Amalgam of Experiences Creates An Amalgam of Sounds: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
“I’m glad he doesn’t own a petrol station, you know? I’m glad he’s not a doctor.” So says a young M.I.A., rattling off potential stereotypes [Read More…]
Generational Trauma, the Continued Immovability of Fate Pervade Halloween Reboot
“Haven’t you ever liked a girl that didn’t like you back?” asks Oscar (Drew Scheid), the predictably disposable friend zoned male of Allyson Nelson (Andi [Read More…]
Winona Ryder’s Harrowing Experience As A Bullied Youth Is What Has Made Her Vulnerability So Riveting Onscreen
As Winona Ryder, who turns forty-seven on October 29th (in typical goth Lydia Deetz fashion because of that Scorpio/near Halloween cachet), once explained of her [Read More…]
Robyn Brings Sweet “Honey” to An Otherwise Bitter Season
The obsession with Robyn has only mounted in the years since her last release, Body Talk, all the way back in 2010 (maybe the last [Read More…]
In Defense of Meredith Blake, Rightful Child Hater
While Lindsay Lohan was once capable of rendering audiences sympathetic toward her character before she became a cokehead/lush/TMZ darling, she managed to make us fall [Read More…]
Everyone That Moves To New York Becomes Jenna Rink: Living Both Dream and Nightmare
When one is in that preadolescent and adolescent phase in which the flesh prison feels particularly confining, the only thing desired is to break free [Read More…]
What Goes Around Does Not Come Around: The Karma Imbalance of Britney and Justin
2006. It was a strange period in American history. TMZ had just started to go full steam ahead after being founded in ’05, Lindsay accordingly [Read More…]
The Case for Nancy Downs As The New Goddess of Halloween (Over Elvira)
Elvira, Mistress of the Night. It’s a title that most of us slores can relate to (or at least slores by men’s definitions). The character [Read More…]
