Tag: Steve Buscemi
I’d Like A Quiet Ride: Daddio
Before even going into Daddio, the premise is already a hard sell. It’s just Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn talking for roughly one hour and [Read More…]
Fantasmas Takes Aim at the Ever Less Gradual Stamping Out of People Who Can’t (Or Won’t) “Prove Themselves” Digitally
In the opening scene of Fantasmas’ first episode, “Cookies and Spaghetti,” Julio (Julio Torres) is having a nightmare about filling out an online application that [Read More…]
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse + The Science of Sleep + The Mighty Boosh + Problemista + Kafka = Fantasmas
Many people still like to tout that we’re in the Golden Age of television, forgetting perhaps that, for much of the 2000s, a new wave [Read More…]
Reign of Puerility: The King of Staten Island
It’s easy to be the king when not many people are vying for your dominion. In Scott Carlin’s (Pete Davidson) case, that would be Staten [Read More…]
Living In Oblivion Parodies Indie Filmmaking Being Just As Impure As Major Budget Movies
The 90s. Arguably the time when indie filmmaking was at its peak definition of “indie,” in terms of major Hollywood actors suddenly wanting to get [Read More…]
New York Stories: Timeless Tales of NYC Archetypes
They say New York is the city of constant change, but looking back on 1989’s trilogy film, New York Stories, it’s pretty clear that the [Read More…]
Relating to Rebecca’s Bourgeois Desires As Well As Enid’s Need to Disappear & Be Free in Ghost World
At one point or another in our lives, we all feel the dilemma presented via the bifurcating paths taken by Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca [Read More…]
Does Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York Still Resonate in Modern New York?
Tama Janowitz, a member of the literary Brat Pack crème de la crème, released the novel, Slaves of New York, in 1986. A selection of intertwining stories, [Read More…]
