Tag: Rosemarie DeWitt
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
Lessons in How the 50s Were a Fucking Nightmare, Or: Lessons in Chemistry
“Let’s begin, shall we?” So goes the final line of the final episode (“Introduction to Chemistry”) of Lessons in Chemistry. A “catch phrase,” if you [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…]
Problems of the Present and Past Plague Black Mirror’s Increasingly Futuristic Season 4
“End fucking game!” So the sentiment of the very first episode, “USS Callister,” of Black Mirror season four indicates the collective desire to exit from [Read More…]
All the Things That Could Have Been: La La Land
Los Angeles in general is a city based on “could have.” I “could have” been a star, I “could have” not gotten that DUI, etc. [Read More…]