Tag: Molly Shannon
On the Grinch Finally Being Vindicated For His Misanthropy
In the past couple of years, some variation on a meme that goes, “The older I get, the more I understand why the Grinch wanted [Read More…]
The Night of a New Hunter: Promising Young Woman
It would be another in a series of reductive and belittling statements to call Promising Young Woman like Kill Bill, but instead of the protagonist [Read More…]
Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” is the Soundtrack to Sacramento in Other People
No one can fully understand Sacramento unless they’re from there. Unlike New York or L.A., it is not the sort of place that can become [Read More…]
The Wet Hot American Summer Saga
If someone had told USA Films, the distributor of Wet Hot American Summer, that the movie would redeem itself tenfold and go on to have [Read More…]
The Death of Innocence in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
High school is easily the most tumultuous time in a person’s life. Between the flare-up of sexual desire and the pressure to attend a “good [Read More…]
Addicted to Fresno Explores the Anomalous Existence of Central California
To most people, even those living in it, Fresno is no more than a truck stop along the way to somewhere better. Jamie Babbit, best [Read More…]
I Am Chris Farley Gets You Into The Skin of One of the Greatest Comics of All-Time
“We realize perfectly well that all the characters that we play are really subsets of ourselves. They’re just ourselves in slightly different moods, ourselves carrying [Read More…]
