Tag: Hollywood
Chadwick Boseman As an NFT Feels Decidedly Black Mirror
Whatever NFTs really are—for no one actually knows their purpose no matter how intricately the reason for them is described—the look of the one created [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #36: (Celebrities) Letting the ArcLight Close
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
MARINA Still Believes In A “Handmade Heaven” If We “Purge The Poison”
The year before the New World Order that would commence whether anyone wanted it or not, MARINA released an album called Love + Fear, separated [Read More…]
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
The Bisection of Britney’s Personality As Likened to the Norman Bates Defense Mechanism
As everyone continues to cry #FreeBritney on her thirty-ninth birthday, wondering how much agency this woman approaching forty really has, it bears noting that Britney [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #11: The Decision to Remake Valley Girl
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it affects. [Read More…]
Scream 3 Might Just Be More Eerie Than All the Rest For Its Meta Harvey Weinstein Factor
With Kevin Williamson’s indelible imprint on Scream and Scream 2, there was no denying that the script for the third installment would be doomed without [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…]