Category: Film
It’s Probably Time for the Government to Start Offering Quietus
Maybe it seemed “shocking” in 2006 when Children of Men first came out (and certainly when its book form did in 1992) that a government would peddle [Read More…]
Tarantino Meets Winding Refn: Gunpowder Milkshake Brings All the Male Influence to the Yard
Of course, when Quentin Tarantino’s quote, “Best film of the year!” was used as part of the poster for 2013’s Big Bad Wolves, it was [Read More…]
Black Widow and Its Parallel to Britney Spears’ Conservatorship
It seems almost too perfectly timed that a Black Widow script about male manipulation and mind control over women should come out the same year [Read More…]
Andrew McCarthy Makes A Case For …And Just Like That Being Better With, At the Very Least, Kim Cattrall’s Mannequin
Of all the people to have shut down the meme scene that arose in the wake of the first “major” promotional still to materialize from [Read More…]
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?: The Artist That Doesn’t Create Becomes A Menace to Society, But The True Artist IS A Menace to Society
A far cry from the likes of Slacker or A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s underrated adaptation of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is perhaps [Read More…]
Zola Highlights How Misogyny Thrives Because Women Still Doubt Themselves Enough to Believe They *Need* Men
There are many questions one who can’t know what the stripper/prostitution life is truly like might ask themselves throughout Zola. But the foremost one is: [Read More…]
Hustlers and Zola Accent the Pratfalls of a Friendship Founded on Hoedom
Just like another well-received stripper movie of late, Hustlers, Zola, too, is based on a true story. But rather than originating from an article, Zola [Read More…]
Spring Breakers, Stripper Edition: Zola
They say the truth is always stranger than fiction, and in A’ziah “Zola” King’s case, that’s very true indeed. For how else could a 148-tweet [Read More…]
There Are Many Issues With Fatale—A Fatal Attraction Rip-off—But Making L.A. Look Fly Is Not One of Them
Lately, it seems as though directors are so entranced with the idea of making an “L.A. movie,” that they don’t bother too much with worrying [Read More…]
Get A Clue and Its Tinges of Clueless and Gossip Girl
On the precipice of fully blowing up in the mid-00s, Lindsay Lohan put in her time with some less appreciated Disney movies in between The [Read More…]
