Month: December 2016
Julieta: Like A More Intense Version of Gilmore Girls
When it comes to exploring the relationship between mothers and sons, Pedro Almodóvar has well covered the territory. Mothers and daughters, on the other hand, [Read More…]
Patti Smith Didn’t Need to Turn 70 to Get Wise
Now perhaps billable as “the grandmother of rock n’ roll,” Patti Smith has always possessed a sagacity befitting a much older woman. Her circumspection began [Read More…]
Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” is the Soundtrack to Sacramento in Other People
No one can fully understand Sacramento unless they’re from there. Unlike New York or L.A., it is not the sort of place that can become [Read More…]
Fences: The Tighter You Try To Close Someone In, The More They Want To Escape
That old platitude that’s supposed to help everyone about to lose the person they love, “If you love someone set them free,” doesn’t apply to [Read More…]
Taking A Moment to Revere Carrie Fisher for Her Non-Star Wars Legacy
Carrie Fisher. Princess Leia. You can’t say one without thinking the other. And yet, there is so much more to Fisher’s career than this role. [Read More…]
Good Girls Revolt: The Mad Men of the News Room Setting
Though Good Girls Revolt didn’t manage to make it past the hurdle of getting a season two renewal on Amazon, it nonetheless triumphed in capturing the hearts [Read More…]
Why Him? Is A Bit Like the Urine-Soaked Moose Featured In It: A Curiosity That Wears Off Quickly
One knows going into Why Him? that the entire reason the movie received the green light was based upon the notion of envisioning the dynamic [Read More…]
Club Tropicana Is the Real Utopia
A clandestine hideaway in the far reaches of nowhere–sometimes better known as paradise–sounds increasingly impossible to reach in the era that is now. Not just [Read More…]
Now We Start All Over Again: Collateral Beauty As A Christmas Carol Update
While it goes without saying that any movie Will Smith is willing to sign on for is probably going to be unforgivably maudlin (even Bad [Read More…]
In Appreciation of Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas EP
There are standard Christmas albums (you know, the kind Michael Bublé sustains his career on) and then there is the Pet Shop Boys’ 2009 EP, [Read More…]