Tag: film
Night Owls: A Jaded Rom-Com That Makes Football Mildly Interesting
When it comes to the execution of the one-night stand movie, a lot of things can go wrong–mainly because it’s such a cliched topic. But [Read More…]
Barista: Showing the Cracked Out World of Competitive Coffee
The ever-intensifying world of coffee has only ramped up in recent years with the introduction of complex filtration methods and apparatuses intended to bring out [Read More…]
Nancy Meyers Continues Her Winning Streak With The Intern
Nancy Meyers’ consistent ability to write and direct a film that appeals to the “older” demographic, yet somehow transcends well beyond that to people of [Read More…]
Driving Down the Boulevard With Robin Williams
As Robin Williams’ final movie, Boulevard is a difficult film to judge. Directed by Dito Montiel, best known for writing the memoir A Guide to [Read More…]
Serpico and the Irony of Morality in A Position of Power
When Serpico came out in 1973, the concept of police corruption was still, well, not necessarily new, but extremely accepted and embraced. Frank Serpico (played [Read More…]
B-Side: A Story About a Britney Spears-esque Fading Pop Star
It’s a tale as old as the existence of celebrity: a famous person (or waning famous person, in this case) falling in love with a [Read More…]
By the Light of the Silverscreen: Movies Illuminate The Wolfpack
“If I didn’t have movies, life would be pretty boring. And there wouldn’t be any point to go on, you see?” So goes the sentiment [Read More…]
The Importance of Being As Earnest As Frances Ha
In modern film, it’s difficult to find a character that possesses any amount of sincerity. All you get these days are clever automatons in the [Read More…]
Movie Reunions: A Sad Homage to the Films Themselves
The popularity of movie reunions is telling of the surge of nostalgia people feel for an era in cinema they (rightly) deem to be better [Read More…]
How The Beautician and The Beast Is Just One Long The Nanny Episode
It can’t be denied that the height of Fran Drescher’s fame was from 1993 to 1999, the time during which The Nanny aired on CBS. [Read More…]
