Tag: 90s movies
Vampire in Brooklyn Corroborates That All the Freek-A-Leeks Flock There
Even before Tracy Jordan was reminding us that “Freaky deakies need love too,” there was Eddie Murphy as Maximillian crashing an unmanned boat into the [Read More…]
Guess It’s… Never… Really… Over: Breaking Up
There was perhaps something in the air in the Manhattan of the late 90s. Something that made it so that women who oughtn’t settle for [Read More…]
Even In the Most Germinal Phase of the Internet, The Net Warned Against It As A Black Hole of Identity Loss
Despite the fact that, in the present, so much of one’s identity is wrapped up in the “profiles” of social media (a.k.a. the internet)–as though [Read More…]
Poison Ivy Is An Understated Class Warfare Movie Posing As Another “Erotic Thriller” of the Early 90s
In a land that now seems very far away to us all–90s L.A.–it was still possible for a girl to pull herself up by her [Read More…]
Dylan McKay: The Last of the Moody Heterosexual Male Tropes
It was roughly around the time of 1995 (also, incidentally, the same year Luke Perry left Beverly Hills 90210 to pursue “other projects”) that the [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…]
“We’re Gonna Have A Nice Family Dinner”: Clueless & The Highlight on a Moment of Peak White Suburban Repression
Dan Hedaya has played many parts in his decade-spanning career, among the most important being Richard Nixon in Dick, but his most valuable of all [Read More…]
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [Read More…]
Depardieu Your Anti-Hero
Not that it wasn’t already somewhat laden with just as much creep factor as Lolita to begin with, but to add further sullying to My [Read More…]
Living In Oblivion Parodies Indie Filmmaking Being Just As Impure As Major Budget Movies
The 90s. Arguably the time when indie filmmaking was at its peak definition of “indie,” in terms of major Hollywood actors suddenly wanting to get [Read More…]
