Category: Film
We’re All on The Truman Show Now
At the time of its release in 1998, Peter Weir’s The Truman Show seemed like almost an impossible concept to fathom. After all, before the [Read More…]
The Mother-Daughter Relationship Broken Down in Postcards From The Edge
Carrie Fisher’s “semi”-autobiographical 1987 novel, Postcards From the Edge, with its pill-popping heroine, was bound to be adapted into a film. And there was no [Read More…]
Tangerine: A New Christmas Movie Classic
Apart from being one of the best movies made in and about L.A., Sean S. Baker’s (perhaps still best known for his Greg the Bunny [Read More…]
O Barcelona
Before there was Woody Allen’s 2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona, there was Whit Stillman’s far rawer, less warm and fuzzy Barcelona, released in 1994. Set in [Read More…]
The Most Glamorous Trans Woman: Holly Woodlawn
When you’re a Warhol superstar, no one expects you to live very long. Holly Woodlawn a.k.a. Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl was a rare exception [Read More…]
The Wet Hot American Summer Saga
If someone had told USA Films, the distributor of Wet Hot American Summer, that the movie would redeem itself tenfold and go on to have [Read More…]
Please Don’t Bother Making the Life-Size Sequel Without Lindsay Lohan
Life-Size was that rare Disney movie that actually attempted to forewarn of a dystopic future in which children would cease to use their imaginations as [Read More…]
Nightingale Combines Elements of Psycho & He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
David Oyelowo’s steadily progressing film career may not have the cachet it currently does without his firm background in theater. As one of the first [Read More…]
A Very Murray Christmas is Murrayaculously Not That Great
Bill Murray’s latter career renaissance has been going on for some time now. Who can even pinpoint when it really started? Perhaps with 2003’s Sofia [Read More…]
New York Stories: Timeless Tales of NYC Archetypes
They say New York is the city of constant change, but looking back on 1989’s trilogy film, New York Stories, it’s pretty clear that the [Read More…]
