Category: Film
Why Marilyn Matters More Than Ever
On what would have marked Norma Jeane Baker a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe’s one hundredth birthday, it seems as if the simultaneously maligned (particularly when she was [Read More…]
In Hokum, The Only Thing Creepier Than Ireland Is Confronting One’s Past
Although Damian McCarthy’s third film, Hokum, doesn’t start out in Ireland (nor does the first hair-raising scene begin there), it isn’t until his complex protagonist, [Read More…]
Obsession Might Be Very Reminiscent of a Tales from the Crypt Episode, But It’s Still Worthwhile
Because romantic love is no longer a “currency” in film (or in life) the way it used to be, it seems rarer and rarer to [Read More…]
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Isn’t a Love Letter to/Elegy for Print Media So Much as an Insidious Acceptance of How Capitalism “Works”
Although The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been largely praised by critics (with Time going so far as to call it “better than the original”), [Read More…]
“Sanitized” Doesn’t Even Begin to Convey the Nature of Michael—But Maybe “Vomit-Inducing Puff Piece That Erases the Facts” Does
While critics have panned Michael (with one particularly poetic headline from BBC reading, “A bland and barely competent daytime TV movie”), it of course hasn’t [Read More…]
The Real Absurdity About Nate and Andy’s Relationship in The Devil Wears Prada Is That Nate Seems to Have No Concept of What It Means to Work in NYC
There has been no shortage of commentary and discourse on the nature of Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Nate Cooper’s (Adrian Grenier) relationship in the [Read More…]
Lady Gaga’s “Corporate Gay” Single, “Runway”
When The Devil Wears Prada came out in 2006, Lady Gaga was still slumming it at shows on the Lower East Side. Which is, incidentally, [Read More…]
The Drama Asks: Do You Ever Really Know Who You’re Marrying? (And Can You Accept Them Once You Do?)
Despite The Drama being an A24 movie, many audience members (including JT of City Girls fame) were duped into believing it might actually turn out [Read More…]
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a “Sister Movie” in Addition to Being Another Commentary on the Rich
With the first Ready or Not released almost a full seven years ago now, it’s safe to say the perspective on the rich and how [Read More…]
The Hope in the Bleakness of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
In many ways, perhaps Tommy Shelby’s (Cillian Murphy) “grand finale” ought to have been something that everyone saw coming. After all, his eventual (and, as [Read More…]
