Category: Film
Thinkin’ Bout How Harry and Marv Would Be Out of “Business” During the Age of the Lockdown
We already knew the 90s were a Golden Age in so many ways. A period not just when casual comfort was deemed the height of [Read More…]
The Invisible Man: An Allegory For Women Being Believed (Or Rather, Not)
Almost stranger than the phenomenon of being invisible is the fact that, for as long as H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man has been in our [Read More…]
Dark Waters Sheds Light on the Too Often Forgotten Iniquity of DuPont, Melds Elements of Michael Clayton and Erin Brockovich
In 2000, the world was given its first taste of the twenty-first century “lawyer movie.” Unlike the classic ones of the twentieth century (e.g. Judgement [Read More…]
CoronaV For Vendetta
Thinking back to some of the dystopian “fantasy” movies of the mid-00s, it’s almost eerie how accurate many of the supposedly surreal predictions were (though [Read More…]
Regina George Probably Would’ve Been Praised for Her Burgeoning Badonkadonk Rather Than Made Fun of For It in the Now
Back in 2004, when Mean Girls served as ostensibly the last truly iconic high school movie at the same level as Heathers or Clueless, our [Read More…]
There’s A New WWI Movie in Town, But It’s Still Not A Very Long Engagement
In the realm of World War I movies, there is an extreme paucity of majors in “comparison” to, say, World War II with all of [Read More…]
Daughter of Del Rey: Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die” Is the Most Non Bond-Like Theme Yet–And That’s A Good Thing
It was arguably in 1973, with Paul McCartney & Wings stepping up to perform “Live and Let Die” for the Bond film of the same [Read More…]
Possessed by Aphrodite: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Jenny Han’s widely successful To All the Boys YA series was, of course, always destined to be adapted into an according film trilogy. The tale [Read More…]
Birds of Prey: The Album: As Much of an Instant Classic as the Movie
With Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) as the bona fide anarchistic hero(ine) of 2020 (sorry Joker, your time has come and gone), Birds of Prey could [Read More…]
Some Thoughts On Birds of Prey’s Disappointing Box Office Numbers
With the box office receipts from Birds of Prey’s opening weekend officially tabulated, the numbers have revealed two rather shocking statistics: 1) the audience that [Read More…]
