Category: Film
Only the Lonely: A Study in How Parents Fuck Up Relationships
In 1991, director Chris Columbus had just come off the high of the commercial success of Home Alone the year before. His follow-up, Only the [Read More…]
In Your Eyes Proves to be a Film as Notable as the Song
Joss Whedon wouldn’t make a romantic movie without some sort of paranormal element, hence the unique screenplay for Brin Hill’s In Your Eyes, a tale [Read More…]
The Sam Rothstein Philosophy of Love
As one of Martin Scorsese’s grand opuses of the 1990s, Casino holds grim truths up to the light so that we might all see them [Read More…]
If You Were Justin Timberlake Being Sold on NYC by Mila Kunis in Friends With Benefits
Perhaps the most vexing element about 2011’s Friends With Benefits isn’t that another similarly premised film, No Strings Attached, came out the same year or [Read More…]
America’s Sweethearts & Its Attempt at Greekness
For most, America’s Sweethearts is one of those easily forgettable, throwaway films of the early 00s. But to dismiss it entirely would be a mistake [Read More…]
Sicario: The Real Oldest Profession
In case you didn’t get the grand memo of the twenty-first century, the moral high ground won’t get you very high up the hill of [Read More…]
What Protocol Says About Politics in the 80s
If there’s anything in the political arena that the U.S. government put emphasis on in the 1980s, it was the Middle East. Second to or [Read More…]
Magic Mike XXL: XXtra Unnecessary
When considering the near perfection of 2012’s Magic Mike (one of the last films Steven Soderbergh would direct), it should be no surprise that the studio, [Read More…]
Baby Boom: The Epitome of the 80s Working Woman
Nancy Meyers’ fourth film, Baby Boom, released in 1987, epitomized one of the pinnacles of “the businesswoman” struggling to balance her working life with her [Read More…]
Iris: A Dame With Style to Kill For
They say that as you grow older, you’re supposed to be less inclined to want to acquire things. Well, if that’s the case, Iris Apfel [Read More…]
