Category: Film
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up Attempts A Sort of Manic Pixie Dream Boy Plot Excepts He’s A Brooklyn Kidult
Of course, no couple wants to believe they’re going to be yet another drop in the massive ocean of failed and/or misguided relationships. Some, however, [Read More…]
Donald T and Rudy G: Giving the Death Becomes Her Broads A Run For Their Money
Perhaps the analogy dripped into one’s consciousness right around the time Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye started to. This notion that Donald “Orange One” Trump and [Read More…]
The Life Ahead Is Sophia Loren’s Love Letter to the Southern Italian Philosophy That Life’s Ugliness Contains Beauty… While Tempering It With A Statement on Migrants
Perhaps for no one else would Sophia Loren come out of her unspoken retirement than her own son, Edoardo Ponti. Her youngest son, Ponti possesses [Read More…]
34+35 = Austin Powers Allusions Don’t Exactly Make Anyone “Randy”–And They Never Did
After taking on the presidential role (as literally anyone can now) in the “Positions” video, Ariana Grande has seen fit to experiment with a new [Read More…]
Mrs. Danvers Is Every Trump Loyalist
With the latest addition to the pile of Alfred Hitchcock remakes being Rebecca, one can’t help but study with more double take curiosity the utterly [Read More…]
Rebecca Redux: A Sumptuous Effort That Takes Understated Liberties With Hitchcock’s Original
Remaking anything from the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre is always an emboldened move. And yet, at the same time, in the present climate of a total [Read More…]
Flashdance Repackaged the American Dream to Women of Color at a Time When It Was Particularly Antithetical To Do So
With Joe Biden transcending into the “working man done good,” attention has been turned once again to the blue collar nature of Pennsylvania. A state [Read More…]
“The Craft”: Not a “Legacy” So Much As An Abortion
Because everything old must be made new again and also repurposed for an apparently more lily-livered audience called Gen Z, we’ve been given The Craft: [Read More…]
An Amalgam of 00s Tabloid Stars Makes the Case for a Lack of Feminine Agency in Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity From Popular Culture
Perhaps the most grim of realities are best expressed by puppets (via stop-motion animation, in this case). Filmmaker Nicole Brending likely knew that harsh truths [Read More…]
