Tag: Amanda Seyfried
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
The Grim Fan Fiction Presented by the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial
In 2023, Wal-Mart has so “generously” allowed us to catch a glimpse into the lives of where the mean girls from 2004 are now. Not [Read More…]
Gen Zers Think Millennials Are Cringe, But Still Want to Emulate Them in the Mean Girls Commercial
Apart from being one of the most overt pieces of capitalist propaganda to wield pop culture in recent memory, the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart commercial [Read More…]
Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial: A None Too Subtle Trojan Horse for Capitalism Via Millennial Nostalgia
As the “reunion” that everyone’s been waiting for, it was practically inevitable that the Mean Girls “assembly” (high school pun intended) would disappoint. Mainly because, [Read More…]
Elizabeth Holmes As White Feminist Emblem
Easily comparable to Anna Delvey in many ways, what Elizabeth Holmes managed to do with her own scam was obviously much worse. For it put [Read More…]
The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes Had More Game Than Anna Delvey
“Today we’re taking the first step to making health care accessible to everyone in this country.” That was probably Elizabeth Holmes’ initial mistake in terms [Read More…]
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
An Imagining of Madonna’s Biopic With A Jennifer’s Body Tone
While Jennifer’s Body continues to be vindicated as time wears on and people suddenly realize how on-trend a boy-eating bisexual cheerleader is, it appears as [Read More…]
You Should Have Left: A Father’s Day Overture That Demonstrates There Is Nothing Scarier Than Your Own Guilt
Whether intentional or not, it’s only right that the latest from writer-director David Koepp (known for blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible), You [Read More…]
Why Jennifer’s Body Deserves More Credit As A Halloween Movie (& In General)
In 2009, the world, pop culturally, was feeling a little more radical. The U.S. had just come out from under what it previously thought was [Read More…]
