Tag: Carey Mulligan
Saltburn: Emerald Fennell’s 00s Era Homage to Brideshead Revisited, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female
Emerald Fennell’s Academy Award-winning debut, Promising Young Woman, had a promising start indeed at the beginning of 2020, before anyone knew that movie theaters worldwide [Read More…]
Juno and Promising Young Woman: What the Most Recent Female Wins for Best Screenplay Have in Common
A woman winning any Academy Award is relatively uncommon. And among the least common is the coveted writing award. For yes, as Joe Gillis cynically [Read More…]
The Night of a New Hunter: Promising Young Woman
It would be another in a series of reductive and belittling statements to call Promising Young Woman like Kill Bill, but instead of the protagonist [Read More…]
CYN’s “Drinks” Is The Perfect Soundtrack for a Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The still somehow under the radar CYN (who recently made a cameo on another amazing soundtrack, Birds of Prey with the track, “Lonely Gun”) is [Read More…]
Suffering (In A Good Way) During Suffragette
Each time an election comes along, it’s easy to forget (especially for women) just how much blood, sweat and tears went into securing the right [Read More…]
Far From The Madding Crowd: A Faithful Adaptation That’s Still All Its Own
In general, movie adaptations–especially ones that have already been done before–rarely offer anything new to enliven or enrich the original literature on which they are [Read More…]
The Quiet Brilliance of The Spoils of Babylon
Matt Piedmont is no stranger to absurdist humor. As one of the youngest head writers to have worked on Saturday Night Live, Piedmont is also no [Read More…]
