Tag: Brad Pitt
Argylle, Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” of a Movie Still Not Ultimately as Layered as The Lost City
Upon watching the first thirty-five seconds of the trailer for Argylle, it doesn’t take fans of 2022’s The Lost City very long to immediately spot [Read More…]
Celluloid Immortality Doesn’t Make A Slow Career Death Any Less Painful: Babylon
There is Old Hollywood and then there is Germinal Hollywood (“Silent Era” Hollywood, if you prefer). The latter has been less a fascination in the [Read More…]
Like Guy Ritchie Trying to Do Murder on the Orient Express: Bullet (to the Brain) Train
Brad Pitt may have recently admitted to GQ that he knows he’s “on his last leg” with regard to his career (ergo, apparently, his life), [Read More…]
Laughter is Found in The Lost City, Starring Channing Tatum(’s Wig and Leech-Pocked Ass)
In the spirit of The Woman in the Window, The Lost City’s middle-aged protagonist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock, crushing it in the rom-com genre at [Read More…]
When Love Goes to Shit, So Does a Joint Biz, Or: Some Winos Aren’t Forever, Namely Angelina Jolie
As a key couple among the most tainted loves of twenty-first century pop culture, it’s only “right” (or rather, expected) that the drama between Angelina [Read More…]
12 Monkeys & The Cassandra Complex: Why Having Foresight Makes No Difference in Trying to Stop a Pandemic
As the coronavirus rages on its world tour without signs of slowing down (despite the lies China is likely telling about no more reported cases), [Read More…]
The Last Big Dick Picture: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Perhaps it took Quentin Tarantino this long to fully (and usefully) process the fact that he was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds’ character on [Read More…]
The Preferability of Mortality: Interview With the Vampire
In a classic case of what’s known as choosing from shit sandwich or shit cereal, wealthy plantation owner Louis (Brad Pitt, at his 1994 peak) [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…]
The Abstract Concept of Love That Lasts Forever Via Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s Coinciding Singledom
After the rampant rumors about Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s imminent separation and eventual divorce were confirmed roughly a month ago on February 15th, the [Read More…]