Tag: Claire Danes
Home for the Holidays Presaged the Rise of the “Chosen Family”
The more that time goes by, the more 1995’s Home for the Holidays asserts itself as a standout in the scantly populated genre of Thanksgiving [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Holiday & The Family Stone: The Artless Implications of What Happens When The Sister You’re Not Dating Has It Going On
Ah, is there any more complex relationship than the one shared between sisters? Likely not. For, in contrast to the brother-brother or brother-sister permutation, there [Read More…]
About (A) Girl: A Movie That Re-Creates My-So Called Life for the Pacific Northwest
The pinnacle of what it meant to be a part of a certain music scene in the Pacific Northwest happened long before Girl, a 1998 [Read More…]
Aziz Ansari Dethrones Lena Dunham as North Brooklyn Spokesperson in Master of None
Aziz Ansari has not followed the path of obscurity taken by many actors who have been on a sitcom and then clam up when the [Read More…]
That’s Countess Rayanne To You
Allison Joy Langer a.k.a. A.J. Langer–better known as Rayanne Graff–is the cult figure whose role on My So-Called Life as the troubled, alcoholic-prone best friend [Read More…]
A Verbal Composite of What Tino from My So-Called Life Would Be Like
We don’t know much about Tino from My So-Called Life–except that he gives his leftover Chinese food willingly, but what is Tino really like? There [Read More…]
Rayanne Graff Was the Original Rayon
Now that Jared Leto has secured an Oscar win for his role as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, it seems fitting to pay homage to the [Read More…]
