Tag: margot robbie
Celluloid Immortality Doesn’t Make A Slow Career Death Any Less Painful: Babylon
There is Old Hollywood and then there is Germinal Hollywood (“Silent Era” Hollywood, if you prefer). The latter has been less a fascination in the [Read More…]
F Is For Fascism, Not Freedom: Amsterdam Shows That, When It Comes to the Many Incongruities of U.S. Politics, History Repeats
Considering David O. Russell is the type of person who would write his college thesis on the United States intervention in Chile, his commitment to [Read More…]
Some Thoughts On Birds of Prey’s Disappointing Box Office Numbers
With the box office receipts from Birds of Prey’s opening weekend officially tabulated, the numbers have revealed two rather shocking statistics: 1) the audience that [Read More…]
Bounty Hunter/Dog Walker/Mercenary: Harley Quinn (& Women in General) Can Do It All–Including Draw Inspiration From Nikki Finn
Just like that iconic opening animated sequence in Who’s That Girl, from the moment of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley [Read More…]
Putting A Moratorium on “Barracuda” to Connote Female Empowerment
In the same way it appears to be a requirement to use New Order’s “Blue Monday” to indicate it’s the 80s (most recently manifest in [Read More…]
The Last Big Dick Picture: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Perhaps it took Quentin Tarantino this long to fully (and usefully) process the fact that he was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds’ character on [Read More…]
The Best Movies of 2017 (For Real!)
In a year that saw the movie industry crumble as it once knew itself under the weight of sexual assault accusations as heavy as Harvey [Read More…]
Tina Fey’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Performance Ultimately Underrated For Its Liz Lemonness
When Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was first released in book form as The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan back in 2011, Chicago Tribune journalist [Read More…]
Suicide Squad: Not As Suicide-Inducing As They Say
Sometimes, when a movie is built up to be total shit for so long and with such adamancy, one can’t help but be pleasantly surprised [Read More…]
“The Truth is Like Poetry–and Most People Fucking Hate Poetry”: Life Lessons from The Big Short
Think back to that time not long ago you’ve conveniently put out of your memory. It was from 2005 to 2006, when all the world [Read More…]
