Category: Film
The Mend: An Exploration of Heartbreak
More complex even than the sister-sister relationship is the brother-brother one. At least, that’s how it comes across in John Magary’s The Mend. Bordering more [Read More…]
The Warriors: Greek in Basis, New York in Significance
The 1979 classic The Warriors isn’t remarkable just for how telling it was of New York City existence for a unique moment in time (anarchy, [Read More…]
Showgirls: Revisiting An Unwitting Masterpiece 20 Years Later
It’s almost but once a decade that a movie like Showgirls comes along (in the early 00s, both Crossroads and Glitter proved a rare double [Read More…]
Sean Penn: Wife Beater or Misunderstood “Bad Boy”?
Sean Penn has long since shirked his 80s-held reputation for being a choleric and abusive proponent of violence, liable to snap with one mere glance from [Read More…]
The Hunt Takes You on a Dark Journey Through the Forest of Lynch Mob Mentality
In an age when a grown man even coming near children alone is somehow considered pedophilic, it’s amazing that one would be allowed to teach [Read More…]
Addicted to Fresno Explores the Anomalous Existence of Central California
To most people, even those living in it, Fresno is no more than a truck stop along the way to somewhere better. Jamie Babbit, best [Read More…]
The Overnight: A Strange Update to Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Patrick Brice’s second feature, The Overnight, is a far cry from his first, Creep. The latter is darkly comedic tale of murder and obsession while [Read More…]
The Iconography of the “My Sharona” Scene in Reality Bites
Helen Childress‘ only movie to date remains the spokesperson (spokesfilm?) for a generation that is 1994’s Reality Bites. The many issues and concerns of that [Read More…]
Still Alice: Stilling the Tumultuous Waters of Alzheimer’s
It’s rare that a movie about a cause can toe the delicate line between raising awareness and being taken seriously without bordering on sheer triteness. Richard [Read More…]
People Places Things: A Coup for Jemaine Clement & James C. Strouse
Screenwriter James C. Strouse has made a name for himself with more dramatic films like Lonesome Jim and Grace Is Gone. Traces of his tragicomic [Read More…]
