Category: Film
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…]
All Superheroes Wear Capes: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Walter Mercado was in the business of psychic energy before it was a co-optable millennial trend. Shit, even before Miss Cleo made it to TV. [Read More…]
The Old Guard: Death Becomes Her But With Purer Intentions
The ennui–the sheer “I’ve seen it all” aura–that goes with the territory of living for “too long” (which, yes, is very much a thing) already [Read More…]
Beauty and the Beast With BDSM: Why 365 Days Is Simultaneously Loved and Despised By Women
With the reckoning on how to portray male-female relationships in the wake of #MeToo, a film like 365 Days could, of course, never get made [Read More…]
Why Drop Dead Gorgeous is the Perfect 4th of July Movie Now More Than Ever
In 1999, America was still riding high on the buzz of its prosperity, wrought in large part by Bill Clinton, whose personal scandals overshadowed many [Read More…]
