Category: Film
Dark City: The Matrix’s Underappreciated Precursor
For some reason, Dark City remains little revered or appreciated not only as a standalone film, but as something of the unwitting source material for [Read More…]
Murder Mystery 2 Will Murder Your Mind
It’s the usual “rule” that a sequel is required to be spectacularly inferior to its original. But Murder Mystery 2 seemed to take that unspoken [Read More…]
Bears Just Wanna Have Fun, Or: A Tragedy Becomes A Comedy in Cocaine Bear
Elizabeth Banks noted that it might be the movie that could end her career. In contrast, the antics of the eponymous bear in Cocaine Bear [Read More…]
Are You Surprised A Visual Effects Extravaganza About Paying Your Taxes and Honoring Family Was the Oscar Darling?
Triangle of Sadness never stood a chance as a major Oscar contender, of course. And as a skewering of the rich and a society that [Read More…]
New York Comes Across As Generically As Woodsboro in Scream VI
For all the promotional hype surrounding the latest installment in the Scream franchise (officially poking fun at itself for having become that) and how it [Read More…]
The Link Between Sammy Fabelman and Dawson Leery
Despite the many accolades (rightly) showered upon Steven Spielberg’s latest addition to an auteur’s oeuvre, The Fabelmans, quite a few critics seem to be overlooking [Read More…]
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Takes A Pretty Woman Route (With More Sexist Implications)
Just when you thought you had seen the last of “Michael Jeffrey Lane” (Channing Tatum), he comes along and decides to surprise you. As perhaps [Read More…]
Heaven Knows What: The Rihanna and Lana Del Rey of Movies
In 2011, Rihanna released the music video for “We Found Love.” Directed by Melina Matsoukas, its central focus is Rihanna in the role of a [Read More…]
If You Can Afford It, The Punishment Doesn’t Have to Fit the Crime: Infinity Pool
“Let’s get away,” he said. “Find some inspiration,” he said. A few days in Li Tolqa (a fictional town that serves as Anywhere, Vacationland) cures [Read More…]
Penn Badgley Confirms What You Already Knew: It’s A Sexless, Sexless, Sexless, Sexless World
There are some who have speculated that we live in such a sexless time because of technology. Not just because porn made the transition to [Read More…]
