Month: February 2017
Some Kind Of Wonderful on Its 30th Birthday: Still The Ultimate Consolation to the Friend Zone Sufferer
Coinciding somewhat unfortunately with another John Hughes-related milestone–the death of Bill Paxton, legendary douchebag perfecter in the form of Chet from Weird Science–the thirtieth anniversary [Read More…]
Wizard of Oz-like Producer of Oscars 2017 Revealed to be Ashton Kutcher
If you are one of those now rare birds who 1) watches the Oscars at all and 2) watches it on a “television set,” then [Read More…]
Bill Paxton & Why We Should Thank Him For Perfecting the Art of the Douchebag As Chet in Weird Science
One of the least revered John Hughes movies from his renaissance period during the 80s is, apart from She’s Having A Baby, Weird Science. Released [Read More…]
“Misandry” in “Technology”
While the flagrancy of misogyny in all things persists at a steady clip (need one mention the current ruler as a reference once again?), there [Read More…]
Hollywood (Really Jordan Peele) Miraculously “Gives” Black People Collective Revenge in Get Out
There is a question earnestly posed by the protagonist of Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), after he is met with an extremely surreal overture [Read More…]
Katy Perry Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop With Political Statements, This Time at the BRIT Awards
With a Grammy performance and now an even more politically charged music video for “Chained to the Rhythm,” Katy Perry wasn’t content to stop at [Read More…]
The Britney Umbrella & Its Sale: What It All Means
On the heels of what marked the tenth anniversary of Britney Spears’ epic head shaving/simultaneous beginning of a mental breakdown, it’s only fitting that the [Read More…]
Katy Perry Continues Her Grammy-Established Political Stance With Video for “Chained to the Rhythm”
After Katy Perry’s first live performance of the initial single, “Chained to the Rhythm,” from her fourth album (fifth, if you actually want to count Katy [Read More…]
Cate Blanchett Proves Drag Is Just A State of Mind With Stonewall Performance of “You Don’t Own Me”
Cate Blanchett, arguably fitting into that hyperbolic category of “the greatest actress of our time,” took a moment from her schedule of creating silver screen [Read More…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]