Category: Film
In Defense of Meredith Blake, Rightful Child Hater
While Lindsay Lohan was once capable of rendering audiences sympathetic toward her character before she became a cokehead/lush/TMZ darling, she managed to make us fall [Read More…]
Everyone That Moves To New York Becomes Jenna Rink: Living Both Dream and Nightmare
When one is in that preadolescent and adolescent phase in which the flesh prison feels particularly confining, the only thing desired is to break free [Read More…]
What Goes Around Does Not Come Around: The Karma Imbalance of Britney and Justin
2006. It was a strange period in American history. TMZ had just started to go full steam ahead after being founded in ’05, Lindsay accordingly [Read More…]
The Case for Nancy Downs As The New Goddess of Halloween (Over Elvira)
Elvira, Mistress of the Night. It’s a title that most of us slores can relate to (or at least slores by men’s definitions). The character [Read More…]
In The Ongoing LDR/Banks War, Del Rey Is Not Taking A Page from Miley Cyrus–Perhaps the Only Other White Lady to Have “Taken A Stand” Against A Black Artist
It is something of an unspoken cardinal rule that the white woman must never speak “out of turn” against a black woman lest she 1) [Read More…]
Wicked Witch of the West Is to Life as “Surrender Dorothy” Is to You
We all reach those breaking point moments. The ones where we must ask ourselves why we bother to persist in our chosen field (usually said [Read More…]
Soon-Yi: “Love” Is Just A Matter of Pursuit & Vulnerability
As if the shock and moral outrage over Woody Allen’s entire existence couldn’t possibly intensify, the very woman within the eye of the storm, watching [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
The Direction of Lana Del Rey’s Sound Continues To Meld Her Pre-Fame Style With Leonard Cohen’s
In November of 2017, Lana Del Rey participated in a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in his hometown of Montreal. Called Tower of Song (in [Read More…]