Category: Film
The Tourist As the Last Movie That Displayed Hitchcockian Glamor
Considering that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has a name like Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (in truth, a name that’s even longer in the form of Florian [Read More…]
All the Women, Co-Dependent, Throw Your Hands Up At Me: Waiting to Exhale
Where the Bechdel test is concerned, there is no shortage of films, most especially from the final “glory days” of pre-#MeToo, that do not make [Read More…]
A Lot Like Love Is One of Many Mid-00s Rom-Coms That Offers A Fatally Dated Mistake In the Premise of Pursuit
While there are myriad problems with rom-coms in general, it seems that the zenith of their issues was at a certain peak in the mid-00s, [Read More…]
It’s Funny How A Postcard Can Change Your Life: Oh Lucy!
It’s almost a blessing and a curse when the appetite for affection you’ve suppressed for so long suddenly rears its urgent pangs. Such is the [Read More…]
Left With Something of A Hunger After Consuming Florence + the Machine’s High As Hope
Like so many people coming out of the woodwork from the mid/late 00s, Florence + the Machine adds to the roll call of musicians (like [Read More…]
Something Old Is New Again (As Usual): Lana Del Rey’s “Elvis” and The King
For those non-fangirls and boys out there, word of Lana Del Rey offering a new “composition,” as she dubbed it in typical Del Rey fashion, [Read More…]
More Than Sororal Relationships, Sisters Addresses Coming to Terms With Middle Age
“We did it you guys. We stopped time.” So marvels Kelly (Rachel Dratch), a former high school classmate of illustrious Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) [Read More…]
David Lynch Continues to Tell Us, “I Don’t Feel That I Need to Explain My Art to You, Warren”
David Lynch, the king of conjuring interpretations and criticisms that will probably never signify any of what he originally intended (hence, some parties arguing that [Read More…]
Never Underestimate the Value of Having a Schizoid Friend: Thoroughbreds
First-time writer-director Cory Finley might have had the fortune of attending Yale–the embodiment of New England privilege–but he somehow never lost his empathy, though he [Read More…]
Strike A Pose Is the Catharsis Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour Dancers Needed to Move On
Madonna herself once called the Blond Ambition Tour cathartic–or as her brother and then set designer called it “like growing up” because “you can’t get [Read More…]