Month: May 2017
Sofia Coppola’s Milestone Win At Cannes Would Feel A Shade Less Tainted If It Weren’t For Two Major Factors
Without question, Sofia Coppola is a talented director. Her vision and influence pervades every film she touches. Even when those films are as decidedly blasé [Read More…]
Hailee Steinfeld Shuts Down the So-Called Compliment of Males Who Use the Cliche “You’re Not Like Most Girls”
As it gets to be less and less socially acceptable to pigeonhole women as any one thing–or as a “thing” at all–Hailee Steinfeld, who, in [Read More…]
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: The 50th Anniversary & The Importance of Finding It In High School
Like most music that is timeless and essential, it’s best to discover it when you’re in high school–at that pivotal coming of age phase of [Read More…]
I Love Dick & The Anathema Concept of Man as Muse
Jill Soloway, always to be counted on for her impressionistic stylings (see: any of those Berlin flashbacks in season two of Transparent), is perhaps the [Read More…]
Bad Luck & American Female Celebrities in Europe
As Manchester gradually works toward recovering from the terrorist attack that took place while Ariana Grande performed at Manchester Arena on May 22nd, it bears recalling [Read More…]
Donald Trump in Europe: The Rainbow Tour It Is Not
While Eva Perón has been deified (thanks to both Patti LuPone and Madonna’s renderings of her–though, don’t tell that to the former) in the period since [Read More…]
Twin Peaks: The Return Brings A Heightened Twist of Darkness to David Lynch’s Grasp & Love of Americana
“If there’s one thing you should know about me, Ray, it’s that I don’t need anything. I want.” So reminds Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in [Read More…]
Vintage Sci-Fi Meets Doo-Wop Video in “Lust for Life”
As the trailer for the Lust for Life album already indicated, Lana Del Rey’s continued obsession–or rather, muse–remains the 60s and Los Angeles. And now, [Read More…]
Céline Dion: Still Getting Us Moist–Er, Verklempt–20 Years Later With “My Heart Will Go On”
The Billboard Music Awards has come to show its strength and influence in the arena of the award show genre of late, and the entity [Read More…]
The Best Part of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3? Its Mockery of Wokeness
By now, even your 85-year-old grandma is familiar with the unfortunate term, “stay woke.” It’s a vague phrase intended to encompass everything from not gender [Read More…]