Category: Film
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…]
How Do You Render A Pussy Man Even More Sexless? By Turning Him Into a Puppet: Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Dreams” Video
As immortalized in the best documentary ever made, Truth or Dare, Madonna famously called then boyfriend Warren Beatty “pussy man” as an epithet connoting that [Read More…]
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [Read More…]
Ed Earl Dodd: A Man Who Doesn’t Exist
There is the fantasy of a man. The kind primarily dreamed of by a fallen woman who still holds, underneath it all, loose dreams of [Read More…]
Smokey and the Bandit Spotlights Burt Reynolds’ Declaration of Sally Field Being the Love of His Life
In what would be one of the last interviews ever given by a so healthy-appearing Burt Reynolds (that’s the thing about cardiac arrest though, it [Read More…]
The Spy Who Dumped Me Perpetuates the Myth That We Can All Live Well If We Take Risks
In keeping with the new Hollywood feminism that Ocean’s 8 kicked off at the beginning of the summer (everything now being a roundabout reaction to [Read More…]
Ocean’s 8, Greek Tragedian Vengeance & the New Hollywood Feminism
While it is easy to write Ocean’s 8 off as another pile of slop in the Hollywood trough, there is, from the outset, a certain [Read More…]
Juliet, Naked Continues the Aging Musicphile Tradition of Films Based on Nick Hornby Novels
Nick Hornby has become that rare breed of novelist so omnipresent in popular culture as a result of his work’s frequent adaptations to film that [Read More…]
“A Rainy Day” Ahead For Woody Allen’s Film Future & Legacy
After all this time, the demise of Woody Allen feels as anticlimactic as any of his usual resigned endings. With so much buildup to an [Read More…]
New York Minute: An Illustration of Why People Assume the City is Filled With Promise
After the 1970s and 1980s, a strange thing happened in cinema depicting New York as “the invisible character”: instead of making it appear as a [Read More…]