Tag: capitalism
Better to Have a Constant Sense of Dread Than Be Dead (Or Is It?): Noah Baumbach Revives White Noise at a Moment We Need to be Reminded of Our Inherent Doom
A long-held fear is being dredged up in the artistic output of late. The one that Woody Allen made an entire career out of before [Read More…]
Emily the Criminal Underscores the Cycle of Poverty in All Its Unavoidability As a Law-Abiding Sap
While everyone is still focused on Aubrey Plaza’s performance as Harper Spiller in The White Lotus, it bears reminding the masses of another Plaza performance [Read More…]
The Eras Tour and the Obvious Connection Between Presales and Selling Would-Be Elitism
As Taylor Swift reckons yet again with having the kind of clout that could invoke the swarming of various attorneys general onto Live Nation and [Read More…]
The Anti-Capitalist Undercurrent of Enola Holmes 2
When last we left Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) in 2020, she had been effectively abandoned by her mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter). Yet it [Read More…]
Triangle of Sadness Announcement: Having Money Is Not Actually A “Skill” or “Talent” That Will Serve the Rich Outside of Their Bubble When It Bursts
The “chic” emphasis of late on how much rich people fucking blow (see also: The White Lotus, Hellraiser, Bodies Bodies Bodies) has been crystallized at [Read More…]
Gossip Girl Turns Lord of the Flies: Bodies Bodies Bodies
In the “olden” times, rich people would often have to come up with melodramas to keep themselves amused. After all, they certainly didn’t have “work” [Read More…]
The “Fashion Cunt” Canon Continues to Be Built Upon With Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
What is it about the fashion industry that makes the people working in it feel they have a right to act so self-superior? So gatekeeper-esque. [Read More…]
“I Got Mouths to Feed”: Nope’s Commentary on the Unavoidable Capitulation to Capitalism
Apart from Jordan Peele’s Nope being a sinister “love letter” to Hollywood moviemaking and all the spectacle it can provide (where at-home streaming still cannot), [Read More…]
The Ultimate Twenty-First Century Celebrity Luxury: “Picking and Choosing” How You Want to “Fight” Climate Change
As Jennifer Lawrence has recently made clear, we no longer live in an era where anyone (except celebrities, that is) can afford to be “neutral” [Read More…]
Jay-Z, Champion of Capitalism as “Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” As Opposed to System That Has Fucked Over Most of His Brethren
Capitalism and the Black community do not exactly constitute an “acceptable” (and certainly not “safe”) topic to talk about. Least of all by a white [Read More…]
