Category: Film
Relic: An Allegory For the Inherited Damage of Generations–and Of Course, Being Put Out to Pasture When You’re Old
The slow burn of Relic is almost as slow-burning as time itself, until, all at once, the escalation becomes unstoppable, working at a breakneck pace [Read More…]
A Dave Plot Afoot
The conspiracy theories that have abounded in the wake of Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis have been plentiful. And among the most absurd, of course, is [Read More…]
“Not Economically Viable”: The Lessons of Falling Down Remain Unlearned
Considering that screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith himself was born in Southern California, he knew all too well the ripple effect that transpired when the aerospace [Read More…]
Emma and Rayette/Marcello and Bobby: A La Dolce Vita/Five Easy Pieces Parallel
Carole Eastman’s screenwriting career might have spanned decades, but there were only so few scripts she was able to give us considering the amount of [Read More…]
Enola Holmes: A Thinly Veiled Barb at the England of the Present
One supposes the leap from directing most of the episodes in seasons one and two of Fleabag to a narrative about Sherlock Holmes’ teenage sister [Read More…]
Art For Art’s Sake Don’t Pay the Bills: The Burnt Orange Heresy
As though director Giuseppe Capotondi and screenwriter Scott B. Smith unwittingly took a key kernel of a driving plot point in Tenet, The Burnt Orange [Read More…]
Babyteeth: This Shit Ain’t The Fault In Our Stars
The cancer movie is always a hard sell. Particularly when it’s in the so-called “teen genre,” meaning, basically, the subject is a teenager with cancer [Read More…]
An Imagining of Madonna’s Biopic With A Jennifer’s Body Tone
While Jennifer’s Body continues to be vindicated as time wears on and people suddenly realize how on-trend a boy-eating bisexual cheerleader is, it appears as [Read More…]
Ratched: A Show That Could Just As Easily Not Be Billed As Being About Nurse Ratched, So Much As One About Psychos in Positions of Authority in The Mental Health Industry
While Ryan Murphy does so love to make his shows centered around icons of pop culture, his latest series, Ratched, the supposed origin story of [Read More…]
After They Wake Up: There’s A Reason John Carpenter Couldn’t Give an Epilogue to They Live
As the 80s drew to a close, the hangover that was to come as a result of the excess was already brewing. The effects of [Read More…]
