Category: Film
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…]
Chi-Raq’s Corniness Negated By Tongue-in-Cheek Greek Play Structure
When it comes to Spike Lee, the message has always been the same: black lives matter. Long before it became “trendworthy” in the wake of [Read More…]
The New Girlfriend: Part The Danish Girl, Part Almodóvar
When it comes to pop culture’s recent obsession with the plight of a cross-dressing man or trans woman (one always leads to the other it [Read More…]
The Intertwined Hearts of Molly Ringwald & John Hughes
On February 18th, what would have marked John Hughes’ sixty-sixth birthday, it is significant to appreciate not just the shaper of 80s culture’s date of [Read More…]
The Full-Length Pee-wee’s Big Holiday Trailer Finally Tells Us Something About the Movie
Back in January, a scant trailer promoting the release of Pee-wee’s Big Holiday left us with little information about what the plot of the movie [Read More…]
The 30th Anniversary of Pretty in Pink Comes at An Approriately Romantic Time
When it comes to movies about forbidden love, Shakespeare adaptations have nothing on John Hughes’ 1986 classic, Pretty in Pink. Centered around the intelligent, “offbeat” [Read More…]
