Category: Film
Diego Maradona: Napoli’s Twentieth Century Folk Hero & The Shakespearean Tragedy of His Game Against the Very City He Helped Reinvigorate
“My only pleasure this afternoon was in discovering the Italians in Milan have stopped being racists: today, for the first time, they supported the Africans.” [Read More…]
There’s Only One Way to Release Guilt in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
What is it to want love so badly you’ll go to obscene, self-destructive lengths to get it? Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson/Barbara Stanwyck)–who frequently expresses a [Read More…]
The Rental: A Tailored-to-the-Moment Cautionary Tale About Not Staying Anywhere Outside of Your Own Home
It is said that all human interaction should be built upon trust, but one wonders of late if perhaps the millennial generation has taken that [Read More…]
Money Lived Happily Ever After… But Irresistible, Not So Much
While likely trying to maintain as generic a title as possible so as not to arouse too much interest or outrage from anyone actually partaking [Read More…]
An American Pickle: Too Saccharine To Be Briny
As Seth Rogen tries his hand at what Lindsay Lohan pulled as Hallie Parker and Annie James in The Parent Trap already, we’re given a [Read More…]
Palm Springs: The Perfect Milieu For A Time Loop
The trend in pop culture of time loops (or, in Watchmen’s case, the ability of a single “man” to experience time spanning multiple epochs all [Read More…]
Alan Parker and Evita
Alan Parker was a filmmaker more selective than your average. His undeniable status as an auteur has perhaps gone too long unacknowledged save for in [Read More…]
The Day After Tomorrow Is Today
With the prognostication that polar bears are doomed to go the way of the dodo by 2100, one can’t help but think of paleoclimatologist Jack [Read More…]
Unable to Get A Mean Girls Reunion, Lindsay Lohan Settles For A The Parent Trap One
After years of being the most desperate cast member–despite being the film’s “star” (though we all know it was Rachel McAdams)–to finagle a Mean Girls [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
