Tag: Winona Ryder
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Destination Wedding Adopts The Tone of Woody Allen and the Coupling Principles of American Splendor
For anyone wondering why Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves have never been paired romantically in a contemporarily set and non-animated film before, wonder no more: [Read More…]
The Russians Own the American Mall & Other Politicisms in Stranger Things 3
The mall in the 1980s was not just “a place to go” or “something to do,” so much as hallowed ground where one could see [Read More…]
Winona Ryder’s Harrowing Experience As A Bullied Youth Is What Has Made Her Vulnerability So Riveting Onscreen
As Winona Ryder, who turns forty-seven on October 29th (in typical goth Lydia Deetz fashion because of that Scorpio/near Halloween cachet), once explained of her [Read More…]
The Political Allegory of Stranger Things 2
Apart from being a conglomeration of just about every classic hour drama and quintessential 80s movie (including Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, Close Encounters of [Read More…]
Winona Ryder’s Facial Expressions: An Emotional Color Wheel That Probably Needs to Be Made Into A Poster for Spanish Class
Awards shows are generally pretty banal these days, and we must glom onto the one meme-able moment we can find. At last night’s Screen Actors [Read More…]
Stranger Things Have Happened Than Winona Ryder Making A Comeback
Channeling two of her best characters, Lelaina Pierce and Susanna Kaysen, Winona Ryder takes on the role of Joyce Byers in Stranger Things with a [Read More…]
Experimenter: Exploring the Not So Experimental Concept That Humans Are Assholes
In spite of Stanley Milgram being one of the forerunners of modern social psychology, it still seems as though so few outside of his field [Read More…]
The Iconography of the “My Sharona” Scene in Reality Bites
Helen Childress‘ only movie to date remains the spokesperson (spokesfilm?) for a generation that is 1994’s Reality Bites. The many issues and concerns of that [Read More…]
1992: The Year of Sexual Revolution in Film
While some might find the films of the 1990s to be a bit, shall we say, hokey, there are actually a plethora of cinematic endeavors [Read More…]
