Category: Film
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is Mostly Bearable, Yet Perhaps Overly Trite
“We’re back… not that we ever went anywhere.” So goes the catch phrase that Nicolas Cage (or rather, a fictionalized version of him) likes to [Read More…]
Abercrombie & Suburban Repression: Abercrombie & Fitch: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie Explores a Millennial Staple That Made Everyone Look Like a Douche Even At Its Peak
As one of the many offerings of late favoring 00s-based nostalgia, Senior Year shows its main character, Stephanie Conway (Rebel Wilson), waking up from a [Read More…]
Everything Everywhere All At Once: No, It’s Not About Trying to Absorb Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century
Who among us has not wondered what more we might be? How our lives could be altered (read: better) if we had just made one [Read More…]
Morbius Should Have Worked at Theranos (and Other Thoughts on the Movie)
Managing to topple The Lost City from its short-lived number one spot at the box office, Morbius is the film that has quickly become the [Read More…]
Morbius: A New York Movie
Like many movies “set in New York,” Morbius relies on a number of generic exterior shots to establish that we’re on a journey in this, [Read More…]
Laughter is Found in The Lost City, Starring Channing Tatum(’s Wig and Leech-Pocked Ass)
In the spirit of The Woman in the Window, The Lost City’s middle-aged protagonist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock, crushing it in the rom-com genre at [Read More…]
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…]
