Tag: Reese Witherspoon
The Morning Show Season 3: Hollow Tears for a Hollow Billionaire
“Jumping the shark” is bound to happen on any TV series if it goes on long enough. And maybe, after a mere three seasons, The [Read More…]
A Chasm in the TV Space-Time Continuum, Or: Rachel Green Fucks Don Draper
Just when you thought scenes of Rachel Green Alex Levy boning Don Draper Paul Marks (not the other way around, as some might sexistly presume) [Read More…]
Your Place or Mine Pulls From The Holiday and A Lot Like Love For a Banal Effect
It seems telling that the intro to Aline Brosh McKenna’s latest rom-com, Your Place or Mine, is set in the 00s. Namely, 2003. We’re hit [Read More…]
Identifying With Kya’s Brand of Agoraphobia in Where the Crawdads Sing
Throughout Where the Crawdads Sing, there is a mostly unspoken realization by those few who wish to be part of Catherine Danielle Clark’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) [Read More…]
Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook
For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is a Continuation of the Folklore/Evermore Tradition–But Also the Iconic Soundtrack Song Tradition
Here and there, one notices a re-commitment to the film soundtrack that was once a constant. But with the decline of cinema as an “event” [Read More…]
Unpleasantville: The Unsettling Feeling of WandaVision
It is a premise many have declared as being “groundbreaking” and “innovative.” That is, choosing to set two comic book characters from the Marvel universe [Read More…]
All the 90s Allusions in Little Fires Everywhere
While it might seem merely an arbitrary decision to set the narrative of Little Fires Everywhere in the 90s not only because of its current [Read More…]
How Do You Know Is Consistent Proof of James L. Brooks Advocating for the Underdog “Nice Guy”
“We’re all just one small adjustment away from making our lives work.” These are the kind and assuring words of the ultimate typecast “nice guy,” [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…]
