Category: Film
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Night of the Living Dead Offers a Prime Commentary on How Paying Respect to the Dead Is A Toll on the Living
As the conversation escalates about what to do with “all these dead bodies” in a world with increasingly less space, one can’t help but look [Read More…]
Oliver Quick Joins the Millennial “Villain” Hall of Fame
While pop culture has been eager to put a spotlight on a number of real-life millennial villains (including Mark Zuckerberg via The Social Network, Elizabeth [Read More…]
Play Misty For Me: The California Blueprint for Fatal Attraction
Although the era of “free love” that commenced in the 1960s was initially looked upon by men with salivation over the opportunity to “get the [Read More…]
Wonka’s Saccharine Tincture Will Give Those With Functional Tastebuds A Stomach Ache
It is said that one is supposed to get more jaded (read: wiser) with age. That’s obviously not so with director Paul King, best known [Read More…]
How to Have Sex Explores the Nuanced Ways in Which Fun is Performed by Women (for Men and Women Alike) to Avoid Being Deemed a “Bad Time”
There are so many quiet horrors to being a woman. More specifically, a girl on the brink of womanhood. That phase in life where one [Read More…]
The Holdovers Knows the Pain of Being a Societal Reject Hits Different During the Holidays
David Hemingson is one of those screenwriters whose handprint has been left on many TV series (starting with the immortal and life-changing The Adventures of [Read More…]
Saltburn: Emerald Fennell’s 00s Era Homage to Brideshead Revisited, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female
Emerald Fennell’s Academy Award-winning debut, Promising Young Woman, had a promising start indeed at the beginning of 2020, before anyone knew that movie theaters worldwide [Read More…]
Love Actually Is All About the Desperation Invoked By Loneliness
In the years since Love Actually was released, it’s been analyzed in hundreds of different ways. Not least of which is the shudder-inducing, super creepy [Read More…]
Thanksgiving: The Kickoff of Greed Season, Or: Eli Roth Gives America a Bitter Reflection of Itself in Ultimate Holiday Horror Movie
In 2021, a horror-comedy called Black Friday was released to little fanfare. For, while its premise was solid, its execution was decidedly wobbly. When Eli [Read More…]
