The Voss Water Repetition in Smile 2 and What It Says About Film Product Placement Today
Perhaps even more than the various terrifying scenes of Smile 2, what audiences are seeming to remember most after seeing Parker Finn’s sequel is the [Read More…]
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
Shake, Shake, Shake (It), Anora, Or: Pretty Woman This Is Not (Unless One Is Referring to the $3,000 Version Of It)
By now, it’s no secret that Sean Baker is known for his keen ability to give insight into the world of a certain kind of [Read More…]
Harley Quinn Behavior Takes Hold in Suburbia: Lady Gaga’s “Disease” Video
While Lady Gaga’s current focus might be to shake the disease of Lee Quinzel after her foray into the DC Universe with Joker: Folie à Deux, [Read More…]
Every Subject That Nobody Wants This “Illuminates” Already Happened on Sex and the City
As though to prove a point about Sex and the City’s long-lasting impact, Megan Thee Stallion recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon [Read More…]
Lady Gaga Focuses on Shaking the “Disease” of “Lee Quinzel”
It doesn’t seem coincidental that Lady Gaga would opt to release a new single soon after the critical and commercial failure of Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Masks! Innuendos! Double Cigarette Smoking!: Addison Rae’s “Aquamarine”
While Addison Rae might have only been five going on six years old when Aquamarine came out, clearly it must have had a lasting subliminal [Read More…]
Shygirl and Saweetie Birth “Immaculate” (A Song, Not A Collection)
Madonna might have released The Immaculate Collection (a riff, obviously, on “the immaculate conception”) in 1990, but she surprisingly never did offer a song called [Read More…]
Change Your Gender, (Maybe) Change Your Life: Emilia Pérez
If some story aspects of Emilia Pérez seem familiar, it’s because writer-director Jacques Audiard was inspired by a particular chapter in Boris Razon’s 2018 novel, [Read More…]
Tinashe Brings It On In Her Update to TLC’s “No Scrubs,” “No Broke Boys”
Cardi B might have recently reiterated, “Broke boys don’t deserve no pussy (I know that’s right!),” but it was TLC who helmed that message best [Read More…]
