Category: Film
Black Mass: Another Gangster Movie to Fall Into The Abyss of the Genre
Like the action/adventure genre, the gangster movie always means a box office draw for Hollywood. One supposes that’s why ever since The Godfather was released, [Read More…]
Bad Chemistry & Fairly Good Music Comprise Tumbledown
As the rom-com becomes evermore stigmatized, it’s easy to understand why screenwriters like Desiree Van Til would try to go outside the norm of the [Read More…]
Trumbo, Or: Hedda Hopper Was A Bigger Cunt Than Perez Hilton
For as glamorized as Hollywood’s Golden Age tends to be, it was a dark time for most writers and actors in the business subject to [Read More…]
Like So Many Pop Culture Moments From the 90s, “As If” Was Grafted From the Gays
Upon reviewing the recently released list of Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Movie Quotes, it’s clear that Clueless is the only representative of “the youth” on the list (there [Read More…]
Mr. Holmes Finds Yet Another Way to Reinvent Old Sherlock
“Exceptional children are often born to unremarkable parents.” Such are the abrupt ways of the near senile Sherlock Holmes (played with just the right amount [Read More…]
Suffering (In A Good Way) During Suffragette
Each time an election comes along, it’s easy to forget (especially for women) just how much blood, sweat and tears went into securing the right [Read More…]
Spotlight Re-Focuses The Spotlight on Boston as The Place Where Important Historical Events Occur
When it comes to the Eastern seaboard, it has long been New York City that has laid claim to the place where “important things” happen. [Read More…]
In All Things Must Pass, It’s Evident That Sacramento’s Greatest Legacy is Tower Records, Not Joan Didion
Sacramento is not known for much. Somehow, it has consistently evaded the hipster boon of other similarly sized towns like Austin and Portland. Sure, in [Read More…]
When the Oscars Were Interesting (In the 90s)
It’s hard to pinpoint when, exactly, the Oscars became so intolerably dull. Was it after Björk’s swan dress? After Ellen bought everyone in the audience [Read More…]
Kill Your Friends: The American Psycho of The Music Industry
It’s hard to imagine a time when music went through a process as painstaking as needing to involve the uncaring and often unlistening ear of [Read More…]
