Category: Film
On the Inside But Still on the Outside: Spencer
“A fable from a true tragedy,” cautions the caption of the first frame from Pablo Larraín’s much-anticipated “biopic” of Princess Diana, called simply: Spencer. With [Read More…]
Sandie and Britney: Last Night in Soho Calls Out How Women with Entertainment Aspirations Are Automatically Assumed to Be “Prostitution Material”
Britney, too, just wanted to sing. That was her big dream. Much like Sandie’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. What no [Read More…]
Last Night in Paris
As Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, gains the praise it deserves, one can’t help but reflect on how Wright is tapping into [Read More…]
Ghosts of Dicks Past: Male Lechery and Nostalgia’s Intertwinement with Capitalism in Last Night in Soho
*disclaimer to self-involved NYC residents: Soho referred to a neighborhood in London before it ever referred to the commercialized atrocity filled with people attempting to [Read More…]
Art Requires Someone in Management Who Isn’t A Proverbial Suit: The French Dispatch
It’s never been easier to be annoyed by Wes Anderson. Yet for those who can sympathize with the often self-imposed loneliness of a writer’s life [Read More…]
Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body: Making Women’s “Rage” Acceptable Through Supernatural Circumstances
Among many underrated “Halloween” movies, both Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body remain unappreciated by the vast majority. Although, at the very least, the latter has [Read More…]
“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…]
