Category: Film
Anomalisa: Sounds Like A Black Woman’s Name, Feels Like An Indictment of Sameness
One supposes the ideal setting for any personal hell of loneliness and alienation couldn’t possibly be anywhere else other than a hotel in Cincinnati. Thus, [Read More…]
By The Sea: Like A Macabre Sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Smith
As Angelina Jolie (sometimes Angelina Jolie Pitt) continues on her career shift into the writer-director realm, it’s clear that once you have enough money, taking [Read More…]
The Beauty of “Brooklyn”
To be an immigrant in 50s-era Brooklyn was hardly for the faint of heart. The passage to America alone, followed by the harsh appraisal at [Read More…]
Love Is A Losing Game, But A Winning Show
There’s no denying that Paul Rust is having a moment right now. Seemingly rising out of nowhere from the ranks of the Upright Citizens Brigade [Read More…]
Grandma, An Indication of The 21st Century-Style Matriarch
As time goes on, the conventional perception of the archetypal “granny”–an aging hag with a hunched back, glasses and bad hearing–continues to wane. Paul Weitz’s [Read More…]
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…]
