Category: Film
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…]
What Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed Tells Us is the Kowalskis and Jamie Spears Should Get Together and Go Bowling
Of all the people one would least expect to have a sordid history, Bob Ross is right up there with, say, Jessica Simpson (who, yes, [Read More…]
Glitter and 9/11: The Crash-and-Burns of 2001
Over and over again, out of the many images of horror and carnage that get recycled from the historic day that was September 11, 2001, [Read More…]
Laura and The Night House: On Killing For Love
While Otto Preminger’s 1944 classic, Laura, and David Bruckner’s recent film, The Night House, might appear to be completely dissimilar, there is one essential aspect [Read More…]
Pierrot Le Fou’s Discourse on the Infection of Americanism in Europe and the Absurdity of Modern Society
As his bourgeois wife forces him to go to a party (one he would rather avoid) so that he can be introduced to the head [Read More…]
