Category: Film
Babygirl: It’s Okay for “Modern” Women to Want Things They “Shouldn’t”—And Have Them, Too
At a time when it’s easy to take everything literally, a film like Halina Reijn’s Babygirl can be dangerous when interpreted in the wrong hands. Namely, conservative [Read More…]
Nosferatu Was Made For Lana Del Rey a.k.a. Ellen Hutter
While The Shangri-Las might have been the OGs when it came to perfecting the notion of “he’s good bad, but he’s not evil,” Lana Del [Read More…]
The Idol…Is Nosferatu
As though to make up for being the star of what has been one of the worst-reviewed TV series in recent memory, The Idol, Lily-Rose Depp [Read More…]
Christmas or Otherwise, Die Hard Reflects How The System Is Designed to Stymie Everything (Particularly in the Event of an Emergency or Special Circumstance)
While Die Hard, to those who don’t look beyond its big-budget, explosive-filled surface, might seem like just another “light” action movie, the John McTiernan-directed feature has [Read More…]
The Substance and “Margaret”
While Lana Del Rey couldn’t have possibly intuited that a very specific line in “Margaret,” one of the songs from her 2023 album, Did You Know [Read More…]
Trading Places: Providing A Seasonal Message That Reminds Just How Fucked Up Rich People Are
In terms of joining the category of movies classified as “could never be made today,” 1983’s Trading Places is definitely up there. Not just because of its [Read More…]
Finally Off Her Ex-Label’s Leash, Sky Ferreira Releases Moody, Masochistic “Leash” for the Babygirl Soundtrack
Maybe there was something kismet about Sky Ferreira ending up on the soundtrack for a movie directed by Halina Reijn. Not just because that movie [Read More…]
Elphaba + Galinda During “Popular” = A Foil for Cher and Tai in Clueless
Perhaps fittingly, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked both came out in 1995. For while Maguire’s book wouldn’t offer any songs that made the [Read More…]
The Evolution of Wicked Into Movie Musical Form & Its Enduring Applicability to the Current Moment
A book—or any form of source material, really—hasn’t truly reached its apex “saturation point” in pop culture until going from book to Broadway musical to [Read More…]
Business Time: Our Little Secret is a Rom-Com With Little Com and Even Less Rom (But Plenty of Vom)
When a business proposal is at the center of the “romantic” cachet in a movie, it’s a sure sign that the plot has been lost [Read More…]
