All of Us Strangers: If M. Night Shyamalan Was Queer and Romantic and British and Gen X (and Still Any Good)
A writer is an essentially lonely person. Someone, in fact, who usually prefers to be alone. Except when they start to realize that perhaps they [Read More…]
Get Caught in Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood’s Ethereal “Butterfly Net”
Continuing the dreamy motifs presented on Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek has given listeners another taste of one of the bonus [Read More…]
The Introvert’s Conundrum When Pitted Against the Extrovert’s Will
Taylor Swift did a couple things in the span of one award acceptance on Grammy night that elicited polarized reactions. And, considering that Swift, in [Read More…]
Argylle, Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” of a Movie Still Not Ultimately as Layered as The Lost City
Upon watching the first thirty-five seconds of the trailer for Argylle, it doesn’t take fans of 2022’s The Lost City very long to immediately spot [Read More…]
The Resilience of Joni Mitchell and Celine Dion as Underlined by the 2024 Grammys
There was scarcely a dry eye in the house when Joni Mitchell took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena toward the middle of the Grammy [Read More…]
Griselda Shades What A Shithole America Is
As yet another narrative that proves capitalism drives people to do insane (and cold-blooded) things, Griselda is as much an exaltation of the beloved American [Read More…]
Pet Shop Boys’ Latest Single Dives Into the Pandemic of Our Age: “Loneliness”
It’s been four years since the Pet Shop Boys released 2020’s presciently-titled Hotspot (which later felt like a nod to the “hot zones” caused by [Read More…]
“Bodies lie in the bright grass and some are murdered and some are picnicking”: The Zone of Interest
When Martin Amis’ fourteenth novel, The Zone of Interest, came out in 2014, many people still believed we lived in a very different world than [Read More…]
Justin Timberlake’s “Selfish” Reinforces “Romantic” Ideas of Toxic Masculinity When It Comes to Jealousy
Sometimes when a man does such a number on you, you still can’t help but want to be in his good graces even after all [Read More…]
Nicki Minaj Is All Over Megan Thee Stallion’s Latest Song…Without Being an Actual Feature, Or: Megan Thee Stallion Continues Her Cobra Motif With “Hiss”
After joining in for a feature on “new queen bee” (not) Reneé Rapp’s “Not My Fault,” some listeners might have been misled into thinking Megan [Read More…]
