The Fall Guy Blows Up Tom Cruise’s Braggadocio and Quentin Tarantino’s Tributes to Stuntmen
As far as movies that acknowledge the importance of stuntmen (because no one thinks of this as a profession for stuntwomen, clearly), the only one [Read More…]
AHS: Delicate Succeeds Only in Trying to Ruin “Sooner or Later” by Madonna
Almost as though American Horror Story is actively trying to get worse with each new season, AHS: Delicate proves to be no exception to the [Read More…]
Jennifer Check Continues to Inspire in Madison Beer’s “Make You Mine” Video
For the girl who once said, “I am bi, always have been, it’s nothing new,” perhaps an homage to Diablo Cody’s beloved 2009 “camp classic,” [Read More…]
Back to Black Makes Amy Winehouse’s Image Go Back to Shit
When Asif Kapadia’s Amy came out in 2015, the director’s monumental achievement of being able to make audiences truly understand Amy Winehouse’s life and art—the [Read More…]
Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry…For Your ‘Roid Rage: Love Lies Bleeding
It would seem lesbianism is “in the air” of late. At least in mainstream pop culture—something that hasn’t happened much since the days of t.A.T.u. [Read More…]
Challengers Attempts to Challenge Jules and Jim in the Love Triangle Genre
In what is now surely the “instant classic” movie poster for Challengers, there is an illustrated version of Tashi Duncan (Zendaya)—her hair cropped short—wearing sunglasses [Read More…]
What Does It Say About the Current Culture That A Critic Has To Hide Their Name to Write An Unfiltered Assessment of a Taylor Swift Album?
While Taylor Swift, in her cloying manner, has seen fit to post all of the glowing reviews she collected about The Tortured Poets Department by [Read More…]
Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Para Argentina o Cualquier Hombre)
Shakira’s first album of this decade, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, is something of a yin to the yang of El Dorado (the record she [Read More…]
Sell Your Soul for the Highest Viewership: Late Night With the Devil
When it comes to slow burns (no Hades pun intended), few films of recent memory have been as deft at it as Late Night With [Read More…]
“Fortnight” Video: Being in (Unrequited) Love/Artistically Inclined Will Send You to the Loony Bin
Despite Taylor Swift’s pervasiveness, it’s probably more likely that Gen Zers would associate the word “fortnight” with the misspelled (as “Fortnite”) video game of the [Read More…]
