Category: Film
Y’all Couldn’t Have Just Taken The Teddy Roosevelt Statue Down BEFORE Night at the Museum Could Be Made?
For every great movie set in New York, there are at least five shitty ones to counteract it (consider the likes of Just My Luck, [Read More…]
You Should Have Left: A Father’s Day Overture That Demonstrates There Is Nothing Scarier Than Your Own Guilt
Whether intentional or not, it’s only right that the latest from writer-director David Koepp (known for blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible), You [Read More…]
Get Out Takes A New Shape in the Wake of “Protest Chic”
Everyone is very concerned of late with how to be a “white ally.” As though it’s a term that could be put on a t-shirt [Read More…]
The Help Is (Still) What (White) People Are Watching To Make Themselves Feel Aware
In one of many classic examples of how Hollywood has fucked over black people since the film industry’s inception, the very existence of The Help [Read More…]
The Conspicuous Alignment of LA ‘92 and USA ‘20
In a 2017 documentary called LA 92, the revisiting of the Los Angeles riots sparked by the “not guilty” verdict of four police officers who [Read More…]
The Brittany Murphy Documentary Deserved the Amy Treatment
As the possible murder of Brittany Murphy in 2009 begins to spark interest again in the wake of a documentary called Brittany Murphy: An ID [Read More…]
Capone: The Tommy Gun Titan Goes Deranged in Latest Biopic Focusing on His Final Year
When it comes to movies about criminals, particularly of the Italian-American mafioso variety, there is never a shortage. Least of all on the subject of [Read More…]
Blow the Man Down Shows the Repressed New England Way to Snuff Out Patriarchy
With a title that plays on an old English “sea shanty” (a.k.a. “work song”), Blow the Man Down offers a controlled buildup to the ways [Read More…]
The Photograph: One Long Buildup to a Tag About Drake versus Kendrick Lamar
Barely eking by before the point when movie theaters would be dealt a death blow from COVID-19, The Photograph’s release on Valentine’s Day seemed to [Read More…]
The Assistant: A Micronomic Look at the Ripple Effect of Ignoring Abuse Pre-#MeToo
As Kitty Green’s debut feature (after releasing three documentaries, including Casting JonBenét), The Assistant feels like a petri dish of a sociological study on the [Read More…]
