Category: Film
A Tale of Two Marnies: The Book Version and the Film Version
Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic [Read More…]
Jay Gatsby-Approved: Reminiscence
Maybe what feels unique about Reminiscence is that it’s the first dystopian neo-noir in an era when it’s categorically impossible to deny that we’re living [Read More…]
Thanks for Being Holier Than Thou: The Cinematic Gods Smiled Upon A League of Their Own When Debra Winger Backed Out Because Madonna Joined the Cast
In 1992, Madonna had quite a few “failures” under her belt. Specifically filmic ones. After her success with 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, in which many [Read More…]
Philadelphia As the True Main Character of Blow Out
While New York City might have been the town deemed “America’s seediest” in the 1980s, one shouldn’t overlook just how much Philadelphia lived up to [Read More…]
An “Ear Witness”: The Sound and Fury of Blow Out
Each Brian De Palma film, in its own unique way, says something about the auteur’s self-perception, as well as his darkly tinctured views on this [Read More…]
Call Me By Your Name (Because You’re My Younger Self): How It Ends
“Do you know who you are?” reads the sign that appears among the establishing shots of Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein’s How It Ends, a [Read More…]
THE Suicide Squad Gets A Lot More Political Than Plain Ol’ Suicide Squad
In many critics’ and audiences’ opinions, 2016’s Suicide Squad was, shall we say, “not the best.” Yet, in numerous ways, it’s an underrated DC Comics-based [Read More…]
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain Delves Into the Psyche of a Man at Last Unable to Outrun His Pain
It was never a secret that Anthony Bourdain was not a particularly “rosy” sort of guy. But no one ever imagined that his perpetual state [Read More…]
Society’s Porcine Ways Revealed With Biting Subtlety in Pig
They say that it is the olfactory sense that is most closely linked to memory. But if Marcel Proust had anything to say about it [Read More…]
Last One to Die Please Turn Out the Light: Children of Men
The rhetoric of ingraining Britons with the idea that “only Britain soldiers on” while “the whole world has collapsed” seems only too relevant. Perhaps even [Read More…]
