Tag: Los Angeles
The Final Season of Love Reverts to Standard Happy Ending Mode
One of the things that made the Lesley Arfin/Paul Rust/Judd Apatow-created Love so engaging for its lack of engagement in the first season was that [Read More…]
Hallie Meyers-Shyer Is Almost at Home in the Writer-Director’s Chair of Home Again
When your parents are auteur Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, there’s most certainly an undeniable amount of pressure to “be good”–at the very least–when making [Read More…]
Circe & Psychology: The Feminist Undertones of Molly’s Game
While the criticism levied specifically at Jessica Chastain–as opposed to the other white actresses she appeared on the tone deaf cover of The Los Angles [Read More…]
The Disaster Artist: Money Is the Answer to (Vague Artistic) Success
As far as directors/actors/writers/producers go, perhaps the only person in the history of filmmaking ever to be as lambasted as Tommy Wiseau is Ed Wood–and [Read More…]
The “Summit” That Defined a Decade: Happy Anniversary to The Paris/Britney/Lindsay Hangout Session
It was eleven years ago tonight that one wild evening in Hollywood sent the paparazzi of TMZ and beyond into a frenzy. An epilepsy-inducing amount [Read More…]
The Simple Life as Blueprint for Borat, Ire for Rich White Girls
The Simple Life was not exactly lauded critically in its time. It had a larger viewership at the outset, sure, with thirteen million viewers tuning [Read More…]
The Disposability of Relationships in Faces
John Cassavetes has always been a master at capturing the complexities of long-term monogamy. From his early work that preceded Faces, including Too Late Blues, [Read More…]
The Neon Demon: Pretty People With Ugly Problems (Including Cannibalism)
Vanity may not be one of the seven deadly sins, but perhaps it ought to be based on Nicholas Winding Refn’s twelfth feature (yes, he [Read More…]
The Nice Guys: Like If Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Was Set in the 1970s
When it comes to Shane Black, the singular style of his detective movies has only grown in confidence and wit with each new screenplay he [Read More…]
Tangerine: A New Christmas Movie Classic
Apart from being one of the best movies made in and about L.A., Sean S. Baker’s (perhaps still best known for his Greg the Bunny [Read More…]
