Category: Film
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…]
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…]
