Category: Film
Macaulay Culkin’s Home Instead Commercial Tempted the Reaper, Goddammit
Although Catherine O’Hara’s career has been filled with many iconic roles, it is still, for so many, the part of “Kevin’s mom” a.k.a. Kate McCallister [Read More…]
This Above All to Thine Own Expression of Grief Be True: Hamnet Reminds That Mourning Takes Different Shapes
While it can be said that movies about William Shakespeare (whether his life or something less straightforward than that [e.g., Shakespeare in Love, which focuses [Read More…]
Julia Roberts Remains the Embodiment of a STAR at the 2026 Golden Globes—As Evidenced by Various Reactions to Her Throughout the Night
Perhaps because it’s been quite some time since Julia Roberts has been nominated for an award and shown up to a ceremony that her presence [Read More…]
The Dreamers, Non-Incest Edition: Madonna (Seemingly) Advocates for at Least Two Lovers in Dolce & Gabbana’s The One Advertisement
The last time Madonna was in a commercial of an actually filmed nature, it was 2023 and the “brand” in question was Itaú a.k.a. the [Read More…]
While It Might Seem Simplistic, Zootopia 2’s Message Comes at a Time When It Can’t Be Emphasized Enough
Although it had been nine years since last we saw the (mis)adventures of Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), in “Zootopia time,” [Read More…]
The Housemaid: Surprisingly Not a Rip-off of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
When it comes to portraying a “girlboss” from hell, Amanda Seyfried as Nina Winchester just might actually be giving Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly some [Read More…]
When It Comes to the Rockumentary Genre, The End of an Era Ain’t It—Truth Or Dare (and I’m Going to Tell You a Secret) Still Is
As if knowing, on some level, that she would need a form of “insurance” to make it so that the masses would remember “Taylor Swift” [Read More…]
2025: A (Mostly) Lackluster Year in Film in Pretty Much Every Way Possible
Looking back at 2025, there were many lackluster elements about it (almost as many as there were “what the fuck?” elements). But most noticeably when [Read More…]
On Introverts and Misanthropes Being Trolled by The Muppet Christmas Carol Line, “And if you need to know the measure of a man, you simply count his friends.”
In the category of, “Well, guess I’m fucked then,” there’s a particular lyric from 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol that will leave introverts, shy people [Read More…]
In the Present, Kate McCallister Would Be Called a “Karen” Rather Than “Hyper”
While the fan focus of Home Alone tends to be on Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) or his antagonists, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin’s mom, [Read More…]
