Tag: Hollywood
Scream 3 Might Just Be More Eerie Than All the Rest For Its Meta Harvey Weinstein Factor
With Kevin Williamson’s indelible imprint on Scream and Scream 2, there was no denying that the script for the third installment would be doomed without [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
They Stoop to Pander: Idiocracy Continues with Oscars Doing Most Popular Movie
The Academy has made a few missteps in a new era defined by seeking to disseminate some of the overall “sameness” (that means whiteness) of [Read More…]
Film School Rejects Can Still Take Comfort in The Big Picture
As the first film to be both written and directed by Christopher Guest (with National Lampoon Lemmings and This Is Spinal Tap being the first [Read More…]
Someone Tell “Lifestyle” Magazines It’s 2018 and You Don’t Need to Paint the Woman as the Broken-Hearted One Post-Breakup
Jennifer Aniston, one of the tabloid favorites when it comes to writing about celebrity breakups, has, once again, served as the perfect person to provide [Read More…]
Of Course James Toback is a Sexual Predator. Have You Not Seen His Movie Titles, General Aesthetic?
They say stereotyping is wrong. That judging a book by its cover is something we should never do. And yet, when it comes to profiling [Read More…]
The Arrangement Signals the Return of Nighttime Trash TV
With ABC and NBC focusing of late (like maybe the past twentyish years) on the notion of “quality” TV (you know Jane the Virgin, The [Read More…]
Donald Trump & The Attack of “The Liberal Movie People”
Perhaps only Meryl Streep could overtake the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony with her empowered acceptance speech for her Cecil B. DeMille award, seizing the opportunity [Read More…]
All the Things That Could Have Been: La La Land
Los Angeles in general is a city based on “could have.” I “could have” been a star, I “could have” not gotten that DUI, etc. [Read More…]
Looking Back at the Golden-Hearted Whore of Pretty Woman 25 Years Later
When Pretty Woman first came out, the concept behind the story was not technically shocking. Films about prostitutes had already been done to death by [Read More…]
