Category: Film
I Used To Go Here: No One Cares
“It could be better.” This is the final line of Kris Rey’s I Used To Go Here, as though to goad its audience in a [Read More…]
Linklater and Lynch in a Blender: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
As such an all-encompassing, yet little used in real life phrase, “I’m thinking of ending things” packs a weighty punch as an internal sentiment. Those [Read More…]
There Still Remains No More Uncomfortable Moment in Recent Cinema History Than When Liza Minnelli Materialized in Sex and the City 2 to Sing “Single Ladies”
For whatever reason, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” remains one of Beyoncé’s biggest hits despite the fact that it is one of her [Read More…]
Would You Go to Hell To Wank To the Titanic Sex Scene?: Yes, God, Yes
To heighten the viewer’s perception of just how “1999” Yes, God, Yes is, the closing credits winkingly play Mandy Moore’s debut single, “Candy.” The tie-in [Read More…]
You Are Inverted, The World Is Not/The World Is Inverted, You Are Not: Tenet
Reteaming with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, Christopher Nolan’s long-delayed Tenet proves yet again that the director knows the value of collaborating with a maestro of [Read More…]
Set During The Great Depression, Mannequin Assures Its Audience They Can Live on Love
With a script written by playwright Lawrence Hazard, the repartee of Frank Borzage’s 1937 film, Mannequin (pre-dating the one Andrew McCarthy would star in fifty [Read More…]
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…]
