Category: Film
She Has A Type: Starman
While it might be deemed “every woman’s fantasy” (from the viewpoint of the patriarchy) for a “moldable man” to land in one’s house in the [Read More…]
Some Kind of Heaven… Or Some Kind of Purgatory
“Getting old ain’t for sissies,” an aphorism most frequently attributed to Bette Davis, has changed tack over the years. Like millennials being accused of never [Read More…]
An Alternate Reality in the Edward Scissorhands Timeline Provides A Fan Fiction Field Day
Surely, we all remember that at the beginning of Tim Burton’s 1990 classic, Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder’s character, Kim Boggs, was a grandmother. Telling the [Read More…]
Macaroni in a Pot: (Who’s Afraid of) Malcolm & Marie
Sam Levinson has been in a talkative mood. One need only look to the last two episodes of Euphoria, structured to focus separately on Rue [Read More…]
Promising Young Woman and the Muzzling of Film Criticism
Although it was a sound bite that already caught on last year, as Promising Young Woman starts to gain a wider reach, it’s only natural [Read More…]
The Madhouse Instigator in Quills & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In every “madhouse” (even though we’re all mad here on Earth), it seems as though there’s one “ringleader” who is a bit more “sane” than [Read More…]
Writing Is My Erection: Quills
While the Marquis de Sade’s life needs no great embellishment to make it interesting, it certainly benefited from the creative liberties of Philip Kaufman’s 2000 [Read More…]
Wonder Woman 1984: When Jafar Gets Hold of the Genie Bottle or Jim Carrey Becomes God
“No true hero is born from lies.” This is the piece of advice given to young Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman at the outset of [Read More…]
Locked Down: A Narrative Thread as Tenuous as Lockdown Orders Themselves
As Locked Down continues to receive some harsh criticism, including the decree that it’s not the pandemic movie we needed (apparently, only Contagion can still [Read More…]
If La La Land Had a Woody Allen Slant: It Happened in L.A.
“Love” stories that take place in Los Angeles are, of course, rather rare. Mainly because it is not a city that one tends to find [Read More…]
