Category: Film
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…]
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…]
