Tag: Jeff Goldblum
The Evolution of Wicked Into Movie Musical Form & Its Enduring Applicability to the Current Moment
A book—or any form of source material, really—hasn’t truly reached its apex “saturation point” in pop culture until going from book to Broadway musical to [Read More…]
Asteroid City: Wes Anderson’s “Sci-Fi” Movie Is About A Collective and Resigned Sense of Doom More Than It Is 50s Americana
A palpable shift has occurred in Wes Anderson’s style and tone since the release of 2021’s The French Dispatch. One doesn’t want to use a [Read More…]
If Independence Day Had Been Released in 2017
If Independence Day had been released in 2017 (we’re ignoring the whole existence of that Independence Day: Resurgence thing that happened in 2016–which was pre-Trump anyway [Read More…]
The Best “Horror” Movies of the 1980s
The genre of the horror movie in the 1980s retrospectively seems more like dark comedy. Decidedly camp and unwaveringly not that scary, the genre of [Read More…]
