Tag: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Love Actually Is All About the Desperation Invoked By Loneliness
In the years since Love Actually was released, it’s been analyzed in hundreds of different ways. Not least of which is the shudder-inducing, super creepy [Read More…]
Locked Down: A Narrative Thread as Tenuous as Lockdown Orders Themselves
As Locked Down continues to receive some harsh criticism, including the decree that it’s not the pandemic movie we needed (apparently, only Contagion can still [Read More…]
The Old Guard: Death Becomes Her But With Purer Intentions
The ennui–the sheer “I’ve seen it all” aura–that goes with the territory of living for “too long” (which, yes, is very much a thing) already [Read More…]
Maleficent Fails to Deliver on Being Much of a “Mistress of Evil”
For a woman who has long been painted as one of the most iconic evil villains of Disney’s repackaged and sanitized fairy tales, Maleficent (Angelina [Read More…]
A Neurosurgeon Cut Down to Size: Doctor Strange
When you get right down to it, neurosurgeons are, well, assholes. Sure, what they do is of value, but why they do it is, more [Read More…]
The Discomfiture of the 2014 Golden Globes
There is no awards show like the Golden Globes. It does its best to hide behind a carefully cultivated veil of refinement, but glimpse briefly [Read More…]
