Category: Film
Identifying With Kya’s Brand of Agoraphobia in Where the Crawdads Sing
Throughout Where the Crawdads Sing, there is a mostly unspoken realization by those few who wish to be part of Catherine Danielle Clark’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) [Read More…]
Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook
For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]
Honeymoon in Vegas Was James Caan’s True Masterpiece
James Caan was among the annals of the increasingly extinct “Hollywood Actor” with a capital A. And yeah, he voted for Trump thanks to being [Read More…]
Don’t Tamper With Mamma Natura: Lamb
Maybe it is because Lamb immediately establishes itself in something like a far-off universe—Iceland—where Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) discusses time travel now being a possibility [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is a Continuation of the Folklore/Evermore Tradition–But Also the Iconic Soundtrack Song Tradition
Here and there, one notices a re-commitment to the film soundtrack that was once a constant. But with the decline of cinema as an “event” [Read More…]
Quel Choc: Another Ad Where Lindsay Lohan Clings to the Past
With such a scant filmography to behold after “life” (read: addiction) kept getting in the way, the continued standout among Lindsay Lohan’s oeuvre remains 2004’s [Read More…]
Elvis and Britney: Their Pimped-Out-For-Profit Connection
After Britney Spears was supposed to make a “comeback” performance (all just because she shaved her head) at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, the [Read More…]
Elvis: Icon Up Front, Gigolo In The Back
The “gap years” between each Baz Luhrmann film have grown longer over time. Made obvious by the statistic that Luhrmann has “only” directed six movies [Read More…]
A Generational Divide Intermixes With the Amélie and Frances Ha Qualities of The Worst Person in The World
Amélie is arguably a film that defined a genre. Described as a “fanciful comedy about a young woman…creating a world exclusively of her own making,” [Read More…]
Senior Year: Never Been Kissed With A Coma Angle, Or: A Millennial Falls for the Gen Z Outlook
Speaking to us from the vantage point of having already endured “the shit” going down, there’s something very Easy A about the intro moments to [Read More…]