Tag: Diane Keaton
M3GAN Is Ultimately A Techno-Horror Version of Baby Boom and Raising Helen
Although the automatic correlation to make with M3GAN is that it’s a mere pale imitation of the Child’s Play movies (particularly the 2019 one), at [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #1: The Sudden Lauding of Women in Their 50s When Madonna Was Shat Upon For Even Turning 40
In a new series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture. As the year 2020 progresses at [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…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]
Woody Allen: The Last Vestige of a Certain School of Male Thinking
It’s not hard for me to admit that I enjoy the films of Woody Allen. He has left an indelible mark on cinema history. But [Read More…]
The Nancy Meyers Method
When considering female writer-directors who have truly left an imprint on Hollywood, Nancy Meyers is among the forerunners on the list, the likes of Mary [Read More…]
Baby Boom: The Epitome of the 80s Working Woman
Nancy Meyers’ fourth film, Baby Boom, released in 1987, epitomized one of the pinnacles of “the businesswoman” struggling to balance her working life with her [Read More…]
If There Really Had Been a The First Wives Club Sequel
With Goldie Hawn’s candid reveal about why The First Wives Club never had a sequel, it leaves one wondering what the premise of the second [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…]