Category: Film
“Coke Bottle”/Cold Gun: Fatty Arbuckle Redux, Or: Another Woman in Hollywood Dies Thanks to a White Man
Many believe that Hollywood scandals just aren’t what they used to be. That long gone are the days of orgies and other assorted sins associated [Read More…]
Parasite and Squid Game: On the Two Biggest Things Out of S. Korea (as Far as America is Concerned) Speaking to Class Division
There is a message being repeated over and over. A loud and clear truth that no one—even after all that’s happened since both the “election” [Read More…]
Not Exactly Killin’ It: Halloween Kills
“This was a safe place and now it’s not anymore,” says a woman on the news after the latest batch of Michael Myers killings in [Read More…]
Wasted Latex: Madonna’s Brush With The Matrix
Madonna is known to casually drop bombs in interviews over the past few years in a manner that’s all very, “Oh what, you didn’t know?” [Read More…]
Make Money First, “Do Art” Later: Madonna’s Madame X Theatre Tour Gets the Concert Video Treatment
The more time has gone on, the more Madonna can rely on self-referential material. Not only to reinvigorate it and apply it to the present, [Read More…]
The Many Saints of Newark Has Few Reasons to Exist
When a show like The Sopranos, as perfect in its time and place as it was, is revived, the best option for doing so—if absolutely [Read More…]
De-Gentrification: The Removal of the White Savior Element Entirely from Nia DaCosta’s Candyman
The evolution of Candyman into its current 2021 state might be surprising in some ways to those familiar with its origins. For the genesis of [Read More…]
Dune’s Themes Remain as Relevant as Ever for the Issues of the Moment
Although no one ever thought it could be possible after David Lynch’s 1984 catastrophe (at least, cinematically, for there are those who still stand by [Read More…]
The Continued Alignment of Diana and Britney: Controlling Britney Spears and the Trailer for Spencer
While one might merely chalk it up to coincidence that the full-length trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Spencer should be released right around the same day [Read More…]
A Festival of Cringeworthy Non Sequiturs
In Sunset Boulevard, semi-professional screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) gives one of many memorable voiceovers in the form of, “Sometimes it’s interesting to see just [Read More…]
