Category: Film
Still Ain’t No Catwoman Like Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman
Despite the praise for Zoë Kravitz’s performance in The Batman (though not as “watershed” as Jeffrey Wright playing Gordon, being that other women of color [Read More…]
Millennial Pluggin’: Turning Red
It seems a somewhat superfluous and arbitrary decision to set the coming-of-age events of Turning Red in the year 2002. And yet, upon further consideration, [Read More…]
Fresh: The Dating “Meat Market” of Mimi Cave’s Debut Reminds That Abuse of Women Comes As No Surprise… No Matter How “Creatively”
“I didn’t think people still met in real life anymore,” Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) tells her best friend, Mollie (Jonica T. Gibbs), after experiencing just that [Read More…]
The “Millennial” Batman Begat by Gen X
With the last “full-stop” Batman movie coming out in 2012, it seems only correct that, after a decade, Warner Bros. and DC should decide to [Read More…]
Second Estate Food Is For Everyone (Or Should Be): Délicieux
As far as French history goes, one never tires of the approaches that can be taken in exploring the French Revolution. A phenomenon not really [Read More…]
Radioactive Hauntology: Prisoners of the Ghostland
For Nicolas Cage to deem Prisoners of the Ghostland as “the wildest movie I’ve ever made” is, of course, really saying something. This is the [Read More…]
New York Causes a Spontaneous Mental Blackout: Italian Studies
The memory loss or “spontaneous amnesia” genre is nothing new in cinema. It arguably began in 1915, with The Garden of Lies and The Right [Read More…]
Dating a Movie Star in the 1990s Was So Much More Private Than Dating (/Marrying) a Pop Star in the 2020s
Being that it’s no great leap to make the connection between Kat Coiro’s Marry Me and Roger Michell’s Notting Hill, it bears remarking upon the [Read More…]
Image is Everything, Love is a Lie: Why The Tinder Swindler Resonates On So Many Levels
As the slow burn of Netflix’s latest hit, The Tinder Swindler, unfolds, viewers might initially be led to believe Felicity Morris’ documentary is nothing special. [Read More…]
Just When You Were Ready to Write Off the Academy, It Proves It’s the Only Legitimate Cinematic Institution Truly Aware That House of Gucci Is Trash and Kristen Stewart’s Performance Was Divine
The Academy, like so many institutions that get their clout from dangling glamor to the hoi polloi via long-standing awards ceremonies, has come under fire [Read More…]
