Tag: 80s movies
Cameron Frye and Connor Roy: “My Old Man Pushes Me Around” No More!
Just as it is for the Roy family at large, for many viewers of Succession, Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) is pure background. It hasn’t really [Read More…]
Fatal Attraction: A Tragic Easter Movie for Rabbits
It’s said that Fatal Attraction is a cautionary tale about having an affair, but what few people fail to mention is how it qualifies as [Read More…]
Last Action Hero Is Ultimately Just The Purple Rose of Cairo
It’s usually the norm for Woody Allen to be the one to steal concepts from other filmmakers or playwrights and rework them for himself (see: [Read More…]
On How Sean and Madonna Should Have Starred in Blind Date Instead of Shanghai Surprise
Blind Date is one of many 80s movies that serves as more of a footnote in pop culture than a “main event” (à la E.T. [Read More…]
Top Gun Is Homoerotic Republican Porn
It feels like one of many ironies that Top Gun was ultimately the product of an Israel-born Jewish man. For in writing an article for [Read More…]
An “Ear Witness”: The Sound and Fury of Blow Out
Each Brian De Palma film, in its own unique way, says something about the auteur’s self-perception, as well as his darkly tinctured views on this [Read More…]
Andrew McCarthy Makes A Case For …And Just Like That Being Better With, At the Very Least, Kim Cattrall’s Mannequin
Of all the people to have shut down the meme scene that arose in the wake of the first “major” promotional still to materialize from [Read More…]
There Are Many Issues With Fatale—A Fatal Attraction Rip-off—But Making L.A. Look Fly Is Not One of Them
Lately, it seems as though directors are so entranced with the idea of making an “L.A. movie,” that they don’t bother too much with worrying [Read More…]
Doja Cat Re-Creates Mannequin, Channels Spider-Woman in “Streets”
As Doja Cat cautiously continues to reemerge after her “cancellation” last year (the one that occurred when an old song of hers called “Dindu Nuffin”–the [Read More…]
Ronny Cammareri Said, “Hit Me Baby, One More Time”
As one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, Cher as Loretta Castorini smacking the shit out of Ronny Cammareri (Nicholas Cage) and telling [Read More…]
