Tag: Pretty Woman
Shake, Shake, Shake (It), Anora, Or: Pretty Woman This Is Not (Unless One Is Referring to the $3,000 Version Of It)
By now, it’s no secret that Sean Baker is known for his keen ability to give insight into the world of a certain kind of [Read More…]
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Takes A Pretty Woman Route (With More Sexist Implications)
Just when you thought you had seen the last of “Michael Jeffrey Lane” (Channing Tatum), he comes along and decides to surprise you. As perhaps [Read More…]
The “Fashion Cunt” Canon Continues to Be Built Upon With Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
What is it about the fashion industry that makes the people working in it feel they have a right to act so self-superior? So gatekeeper-esque. [Read More…]
If La La Land Had a Woody Allen Slant: It Happened in L.A.
“Love” stories that take place in Los Angeles are, of course, rather rare. Mainly because it is not a city that one tends to find [Read More…]
Beauty and the Beast With BDSM: Why 365 Days Is Simultaneously Loved and Despised By Women
With the reckoning on how to portray male-female relationships in the wake of #MeToo, a film like 365 Days could, of course, never get made [Read More…]
The Death of Roxette’s Marie Fredriksson Signals A Further Death in “Keeping Sweden Swedish”
Sweden has had to grapple with some unwanted revelations of late. Chiefly pertaining to the “icky” acknowledgement that Stockholm has become one of the European [Read More…]
The Double Standard of Actresses Being Viewed As Prostitutes While Actors Are Heralded As “Artists”
There is a scene in the underrated rom-com masterpiece that is Notting Hill that says everything you need to know about the double standard in [Read More…]
Ciara Emulates Vivian Ward, Lydia Deetz in “Thinkin Bout You” Video
Refreshing for its sheer sonic and visual jubilance in manifesting the feeling of infatuation that comes with potential new love, Ciara’s latest single, “Thinkin Bout [Read More…]
At the Point of Needing to Be Hyper-Meta to Sell a Rom Com: Isn’t It Romantic?
In 1948, a non-ironically titled rom-com called Isn’t It Romantic? was released. Starring Veronica Lake as the coquettish Candy (because anyone named Candy just has [Read More…]
Toss Maid in Manhattan & Pretty Woman in the Screenplay Blender and You Have Second Act
With thirty-two film credits to her name, starting with her first role in 1986’s My Little Girl, Jennifer Lopez is more “movie star” than singer [Read More…]
