Category: Film
May December Cuts to the Core of American Culture’s Love of Real-Life Trauma As “Entertainment”
There was a time in the 90s where it seemed one couldn’t avoid a tabloid (whether in print or TV) headline about a teacher’s “inappropriate [Read More…]
Crossroads and Britney Spears As Unwilling Method Actor
Of all the films Britney Spears could have “gone all Method” for, a “frothy” (but actually fundamentally deep) teen road movie called Crossroads probably wouldn’t [Read More…]
The Sacramento Teen Weeping Over Titanic
Every time the name Greta Gerwig is brought up, it’s practically a non-starter that Sacramento will be as well. That much held true in Gerwig’s [Read More…]
Maybe Listening to Depeche Mode Instead of The Smiths Would Make You A Better Hitman: The Killer
After a project as sentimental (in large part due to being written by Jack Fincher) as David Fincher’s last one, Mank, one might believe that, [Read More…]
When the Plebes Had Diamond Hands: Dumb Money
Toward the end of 2020, the only thing more pervasive than COVID-19 was “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. A song whose prowess [Read More…]
The Meaning of Lana Del Rey Snubbing the Priscilla Soundtrack
Practically since the “dawn of Lana Del Rey,” a.k.a. the Tumblr era, there’s been that image circulating around that features her head Photoshopped (this was [Read More…]
The Grim Fan Fiction Presented by the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial
In 2023, Wal-Mart has so “generously” allowed us to catch a glimpse into the lives of where the mean girls from 2004 are now. Not [Read More…]
Gen Zers Think Millennials Are Cringe, But Still Want to Emulate Them in the Mean Girls Commercial
Apart from being one of the most overt pieces of capitalist propaganda to wield pop culture in recent memory, the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart commercial [Read More…]
“Letting” Foxes in the Henhouse: Killers of the Flower Moon
It’s only fitting that the word “Osage,” what the French decided to call the Native American tribe that’s actually named Wazhazhe, loosely translates to “calm [Read More…]
Not Justin Ken’ing Britney While She Was Having An Abortion
There is a very particular moment in Britney Spears’ revelatory The Woman In Me, during which she at last has the courage to rehash having [Read More…]
