Category: Film
Sandy Olsson Taught Us: Be What He Wants You To Be
It’s been a common trope for such an interminable eon that, even now, we scarcely “overthink” it. View the requisite female makeover of any rom-com, [Read More…]
Like Guy Ritchie Trying to Do Murder on the Orient Express: Bullet (to the Brain) Train
Brad Pitt may have recently admitted to GQ that he knows he’s “on his last leg” with regard to his career (ergo, apparently, his life), [Read More…]
“Your Pain Is Your Biggest Asset”: Not Okay Goes for the White Girl’s Jugular and the Here-to-Stay Trend of Pain Performed for Fame
Once upon a time, on a street corner in Bushwick (where, of course, the “protagonist” of Not Okay lives), there was a manicured (read: commissioned) [Read More…]
The Gray Man Ticks Every Generic Spy Movie Box
Although Ryan Gosling’s intent these days might be to embody the phrase “basic as fuck”—based purely on portraying the ultimate Barbie accessory known as Ken—even [Read More…]
Nope: A Filmic Take on The Society of The Spectacle… and Jordan Peele’s Macabre “Love” Letter to Hollywood
As it’s widely known that Guy Debord already has the claim on the title The Society of the Spectacle, maybe Jordan Peele was feeling just [Read More…]
Always An Invisible Fairy Godmother, Never A Princess: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Before France surrendered to being decidedly Americanized in its quest to become part of the “globalization effort” that the U.S. rallied hard for after the [Read More…]
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…]
