Category: Film
The Death of the 90s in the Span of a Week: Keith Flint, Luke Perry & the Release of Leaving Neverland
Despite the steady and constant stream of 90s nostalgia that has kept Urban Outfitters afloat for the past decade, the actual death of all the [Read More…]
Love Means Never Telling Someone You’re Crippled, Emotionally or Otherwise: An Affair to Remember
In the tropes of both life and cinema, it is touted that true love means not only never having to say you’re sorry, but also [Read More…]
The Frances Ha Philosophy of Soul Mates in My Brilliant Friend
Perhaps in some way it’s no coincidence that Frances Ha (with Lady Bird secretly serving as the eponymous character’s origin story) was released to theaters [Read More…]
“You Know What Successful People Do? They Move On”: But That’s Too Much to Ask For a…Destroyer
Another story about a cop in L.A., another tale of moral corruption. Of course, that’s what Karyn Kusama’s latest film, Destroyer, is about on the [Read More…]
No, Green Book Shouldn’t Have Won Best Picture… But That Doesn’t Mean BlacKkKlansman Should Have Either
While it’s just another normal year when the Academy has both disappointed and opted to revert to its usual pattern of falling for a movie [Read More…]
Andy Warhol Is All Over The American Meme, Literally and Figuratively
“You are exactly what he would have loved,” Kathy Hilton tells her socialite daughter, Paris as they talk about Andy Warhol and flip through old [Read More…]
A Guy Ritchie Sort of Interpretation of Alice in Wonderland: Terminal
While Vaughn Stein’s writing and directorial debut, Terminal, may eventually get lost in the shuffle of Margot Robbie’s filmic canon–as she might forever be relegated [Read More…]
Georgia Rule: Lindsay Lohan’s Least Watched Movie Is Also Likely Her Best as a Result of Certain Autobiographical Elements
While there are, to be sure, plenty of “films” in the Lindsay Lohan oeuvre that have been underlooked in the era called post-Mean Girls (Just [Read More…]
Critical Mass (Murder): Velvet Buzzsaw
Perhaps only feeling comfortable enough to get at his freakiest with Jake Gyllenhaal as his muse, mostly screenwriter Dan Gilroy has seen fit to, once [Read More…]
Never Look Away Posits Not Only an Impressionistic Version of Gerhard Richter’s Life, But Also the Blurred Lines of Oppressive Politics
When taking into account that the last movie Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck released was the under appreciated, generally poorly reviewed The Tourist (the final Hollywood [Read More…]