Tag: New York
Jake Gyllenhaal: A Thomas “Holden” Worther 2.0 in Demolition
“There was love between us. I just didn’t take care of it.” So establishes the crux of Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition, with Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of [Read More…]
All Work And No Play Make Pee-wee A Dull Boy
With Netflix becoming something of the reboot queen, it’s only natural that, in addition to the likes of Full House and Gilmore Girls, so, too, [Read More…]
Lucille Ball Is The Future of All NYC Women in Stone Pillow
Lucille Ball never quite got the accolades she deserved for switching to drama in the 1985 TV movie, Stone Pillow. Directed by George Schaefer, the [Read More…]
Time Out of Mind Gives An Empathetic, Though Somewhat Sanitized Lens into NYC’s Homeless
For a population often overlooked or simply ignored, Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind offers at least some modicum of respect and empathy to the homeless–specifically those [Read More…]
“What’s Wrong Can Never Be Made Right”: The Ronny Cammareri View of Life
When you’re a woman, whether of the 80s or now, there is only one man–and it’s Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) from Moonstruck. His intensity, constant [Read More…]
Chalotte Pingress: The Epitome of the Manipu-bitch in a Friendship
In any female friendship (or male one, for that matter–though to a somewhat lesser extent), there is a stronger, more powerful party, a manipulator. The [Read More…]
Mary-Kate Olsen Gets Married, Has Reception That Danny Tanner Would Disapprove OF
No one ever imagined that, of all the celebrity pairings in recent years, Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy’s would be one to persist (one balks [Read More…]
If You Were Justin Timberlake Being Sold on NYC by Mila Kunis in Friends With Benefits
Perhaps the most vexing element about 2011’s Friends With Benefits isn’t that another similarly premised film, No Strings Attached, came out the same year or [Read More…]
Serpico and the Irony of Morality in A Position of Power
When Serpico came out in 1973, the concept of police corruption was still, well, not necessarily new, but extremely accepted and embraced. Frank Serpico (played [Read More…]
Zhe Zhe: The Mighty Boosh for Brooklyn
It’s impossible to dream that the two girls in Brooklyn concept phenomenon could continue to propagate. Granted, there are varying degrees of those shows worth watching, [Read More…]
