Category: Film
“Bodies lie in the bright grass and some are murdered and some are picnicking”: The Zone of Interest
When Martin Amis’ fourteenth novel, The Zone of Interest, came out in 2014, many people still believed we lived in a very different world than [Read More…]
Postcards from Sydney (Australia and Sweeney)
It’s no secret that the rom-com is an ever-dying genre. One that’s harder and harder to “spoon-feed” audiences that have gotten both younger and more [Read More…]
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Poor Things
When a story has the kind of impact that Frankenstein did—and then enters the public domain—the oversaturation of that narrative can automatically offput an audience. [Read More…]
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…]