Category: Film
Before Channing Tatum Was Magic Mike He Was…The Son of No One
Channing Tatum has been percolating in people’s minds at least since 2000, when he appeared in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” video (an appropriate debut for [Read More…]
The Sibling Neuroses of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
“You mean, all this time, we could’ve been friends?” As Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? draws to a close on the beach of [Read More…]
Man Up: A Rom-Com With Balls
Ben Palmer’s first proper foray into cinematic glory post-The Inbetweeners takes a typical story about a disillusioned mid-30s woman, Nancy Patterson (Lake Bell, sporting a [Read More…]
Experimenter: Exploring the Not So Experimental Concept That Humans Are Assholes
In spite of Stanley Milgram being one of the forerunners of modern social psychology, it still seems as though so few outside of his field [Read More…]
Ricki and The Flash Makes a Flaccid Attempt at Feminism Geared Toward Female Rockers
Diablo Cody isn’t usually one to fail. With a strong track record of insightful screenplays including Juno, Jennifer’s Body and Young Adult, it’s disappointing to [Read More…]
The Nancy Meyers Method
When considering female writer-directors who have truly left an imprint on Hollywood, Nancy Meyers is among the forerunners on the list, the likes of Mary [Read More…]
Beyond the Skin Deep: The Canniness of Death Becomes Her
For whatever reason, the 90s in film seemed to be not only a time for maudlin fare (see: Scent of a Woman), but also for [Read More…]
Christina Ricci Embodies the Living Dead in After.Life
Warsaw-born Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo made her directing and screenwriting debut with After.Life in 2009, an unsettling metaphor for how the majority of us walk around living [Read More…]
The Gift (Of Revenge)
The question of whether or not we can ever really get over the cruelty of our high school tormentors is explored with creepy gusto in [Read More…]
The Death of Innocence in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
High school is easily the most tumultuous time in a person’s life. Between the flare-up of sexual desire and the pressure to attend a “good [Read More…]
