Month: August 2017
Ingrid Goes West: A Dark Examination of Our New Normal Stalker Culture
We’re all guilty of the “look at me, look at me” syndrome that comes with posting things on Instagram (some, like yours truly, guiltier than [Read More…]
Write Where It Hurts: The Only Living Boy In New York
For a director whose debut was (500) Days of Summer, it’s something of an about-face to shift to an entirely opposite and opposed coast with [Read More…]
Friends From College Proves People Who Went to Harvard Are Bigger Losers Than You Are
There’s something to be said for lifelong camaraderie, sure. There’s something else to be said for clinging to toxic friendships you know are only making [Read More…]
That Time Madonna Wrote “Push” For Guy Ritchie To Tell Herself That Him Being A Dickhead Was At Least Inspirational
In 2005, Madonna had endured her greatest physical trauma yet: falling off a horse. Naturally, because she’s Madonna, she got back on it literally and [Read More…]
Nocturama: The Breakfast Club With Terrorismo
With his second feature in 2001, The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello established himself firmly as a writer-director willing to address the hard-hitting subjects. By 2014, with [Read More…]
“Nothing is real. Love is everything. And I am nothing.”: Kesha’s Rainbow Picks Up Where Warrior Left Off
It can be difficult to be evolutionary as an artist when your entire life hangs in the balance of a producer with a name that [Read More…]
Love Season 2 Gets Real About the Psychosis Behind Being Fucked Up About Men
Not everyone is capable of being “healthy” in their approach to dealing with relationships, most certainly not women with any sort of daddy issues (generally [Read More…]
Lena Dunham, Hall Monitor
Lena Dunham can never cease to relinquish control of commenting on things she really oughtn’t, on matters she has little to zero experience with. From [Read More…]
L’amour N’existe Pas: The Dissolution of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris
In truth, we might have all seen this coming with couples like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, or Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but even [Read More…]
Gypsy: Like If Big Little Lies Were Set in New York & All Three Characters Were Rolled Into Naomi Watts
There’s a reason the trope about therapists being the most fucked up ones of all exists. And if there’s any solid pop culture evidence of [Read More…]