Tag: Rome
Mondo Bullshittio #27: Giving the Vatican Shit For Its Psychedelic, Space-Oriented Nativity
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Fashion’s New Fascist: Fendi, & Everything That’s Wrong With Their Kiernan Shipka-Starring Commercial
For most of the tourists that flock to Rome to throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Fendi now being, incidentally, the “owner” of it [Read More…]
Baby’s Second Season is Another Look at the Italian Dilemma with the Madonna/Whore Complex
When last we left the Gossip Girl-like lives of Chiara Altieri (Benedetta Porcaroli) and Ludovica (Alice Pagani), they had gotten in too deep at Mirage, [Read More…]
Lina Wertmüller At Last Given Some Overdue Credit With Honorary Oscar at Governors Awards
While an Oscar appears to become increasingly meaningless with each passing year, the sentiment behind it was not lost on veteran Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller [Read More…]
Baby: Gossip Girl Italiano
Just as the rich and therefore troubled teens of the Upper East Side on Gossip Girl, the second Netflix original series set in Rome (the [Read More…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]
Et tu, Roma?
This annoying early twenty-first century phenomenon to liken everything to something else has gotten most out of hand with the necessity people and magazines feel [Read More…]
Guy Ritchie, The Man From Hatfield, Gives Us The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
It would seem as though Guy Ritchie has been keeping a low profile since his last film came out in 2011. A sequel to Sherlock [Read More…]
With the Death of Anita Ekberg Comes the Death of La Dolce Vita As We Knew It
There have been so many actresses in film history who have made a lasting impression on the silver screen with minimal screen time (see: Major [Read More…]
Do the Loose-Fitting Clothes of Monica Vitti’s Character in L’Eclisse Represent a Loose Moral Compass?
It’s clear when watching Monica Vitti on screen that she’s one of those beauties who you have to acclimate yourself to, the type who becomes [Read More…]
