Category: Film
Bikini Kill Gets Passed Down to a New Generation in Moxie
A girl runs through the woods in a panicked frenzy. It’s the stuff of nightmares (and also something out of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)–and that’s [Read More…]
The Only Thing That Could Excuse Coming 2 America Being So Bad Is If It Actually Took Place in America for More Than Five Minutes
There is a moment when Lavelle Junson (Jermaine Fowler) tries to ease the pain of watching Coming 2 America (and yes, it is actually stylized [Read More…]
To All the Boys: Always and Forever Provides Little More Than An NYU Ad
As the final filmic installment in the To All the Boys series, this particular one holds an especial weight in terms of concluding the narrative [Read More…]
The Present Purpose of Rockumentaries Is A Little Blurry
“Are you okay? I’m okay because you’re okay,” Billie Eilish announces at the final show of her 2018 Where’s My Mind Tour in Salt Lake [Read More…]
Ronny Cammareri Said, “Hit Me Baby, One More Time”
As one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, Cher as Loretta Castorini smacking the shit out of Ronny Cammareri (Nicholas Cage) and telling [Read More…]
I Care A Lot Doesn’t Care A Lot About Plot Holes
In a case of one of those movies where we’re meant to focus on the message instead of the various sharp detours away from plausibility, [Read More…]
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…]
