Category: Film
No More Mascara Tears for Jennifer Aniston
Few celebrities are capable of touting the no-makeup look while actually being able to carry it off (see Britney Spears and Kim Kardashian for examples). [Read More…]
Sophia Loren Owns Her Bitchery Toward Jayne Mansfield
We’ve all seen the photo. The one that practically invented the concept of “mean girls.” Taken in 1957 at a party to welcome Sophia Loren [Read More…]
Dear Black People, Dear White People Is the Cultural Paradigm Shift/Compensation For Madea You’ve Been Waiting For
It would be easy for “white folk” to take Dear White People the wrong way, to interpret it as a sort of propaganda designed to [Read More…]
The Best “Horror” Movies of the 1980s
The genre of the horror movie in the 1980s retrospectively seems more like dark comedy. Decidedly camp and unwaveringly not that scary, the genre of [Read More…]
A Man and A Woman: A Disjointed Glance at Finding Love Again
“If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.” This is one of of the [Read More…]
Hello to All That: The Joan Didion Documentary Hype Begins
Those who say what gets the greenlight in Hollywood are clearly eating their metaphorical hats right now, as the Kickstarter for a Joan Didion documentary [Read More…]
Froth on the Daydream and Mood Indigo: A Seamless Marriage
Michel Gondry’s penchant for the surreal has only increased since his debut, Human Nature, in 2001. While his second, arguably most iconic, feature, Eternal Sunshine [Read More…]
Peter Loew in Vampire’s Kiss As A Forerunner of Patrick Bateman
The 1980s were a liberal time, though it might not have seemed so as it was happening. Smoking in offices, calling women cunts openly and [Read More…]
Esmerelda Gosling & The Celebrity Stable of Children
Perhaps fortuitously sharing a birthday with 2 Chainz (September 12th), Esmerelda Gosling, the daughter of Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling, rounds out a seemingly never-ending [Read More…]
To Catch A Thief: Showing How Men in the 50s Were Rent Between Being a Loner and a Domestic Animal
One of many of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics, To Catch A Thief, differs from his other work in its clear-cut display of the main character’s utter [Read More…]
