Month: January 2017
No Good Can Come of Texting Lady Gaga
Just when you thought Kesha’s legal battles might finally be coming to a close, her longstanding issues with Dr. Luke get stoked anew in the [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…]
Emmanuelle Riva, Mon Amour
Perhaps no other actress–apart from Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday–hit the jackpot as much as Emmanuelle Riva with her debut role as Elle in Hiroshima, [Read More…]
Five Years Later & I’m Living the Narrative of LDR’s Born to Die Album More Than Never
The thing about Lana Del Rey is, women either think she’s god or an overly dramatic phony who has cashed in one too many times [Read More…]
Missy Elliott Adds to Her Music Video Brilliance With “I’m Better”
If you’re wondering why it seems to take Missy Elliott so long to release a single, look no further than her latest song, “I’m Better,” [Read More…]
Charli XCX Slightly Amends Her Sound (And Look) For A More J-Pop Feel With “Crazy Crazy”
As Charli XCX continues to leave us in anticipation of her forthcoming third album, she has found the time to sate fans with a collaboration [Read More…]
Austra’s “I Love You More Than You Love Yourself” Video Takes on The Topic of Depression Through Astronaut Lisa Nowak
As Katie Stelmanis of Austra has so eloquently stated of one of the major problems with current politics–America or otherwise–“There’s a major disconnect between what [Read More…]
Things To Come: Just When You’ve Settled Comfortably Into Middle Age, Life Discomfits You
Isabelle Huppert’s filmic renaissance of late came specifically with the one-two punch releases of Elle and Things to Come (known simply as L’Avenir in French) [Read More…]
Mary Tyler Moore: The First Woman Who Made Singledom Glamorous
Before 1970, when Mary Richards made it onto the airwaves of the somewhat misleadingly named The Mary Tyler Moore Show, there was nary a trace [Read More…]
Slow Pacing and Erratic Behavior from Dennis Hopper Bring Out the Strange in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend
The thing about adapting a novel from Patricia Highsmith is that it almost always guarantees the film will have a high gloss feel with the [Read More…]