Category: Film
The Theory That We Are All In Some Version of David Fincher’s The Game Right Now
Of course, like any closed off, impossibly callous person, Nicholas van Orton (Michael Douglas) suffered an unforgettable trauma in his childhood: bearing witness to the [Read More…]
“You Want a Dorito?” How The Doom Generation Captured the American Ability to File Away Trauma
If anyone has ever mastered the art of disaffection and its immortalization in the pop culture oeuvre, it’s Generation X. Or what Gregg Araki billed [Read More…]
Chaos Is the New Cocaine & Other Revelations Seeking A Friend For the End of the World Taught Us
In a year that has rendered many apocalypse movies (in addition to zombie ones) freshly relevant, Lorene Scafaria’s directorial debut (after writing the script for [Read More…]
28 Days Later Proves Humans Keep Going Even When They Should Very Clearly Commit Suicide
Among the greats in the pandemic movie pantheon is a film from the not so distant past: Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-apocalyptic classic, 28 Days Later. [Read More…]
Shaun of the Dead: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, It’s Too Close to Home & It’s Too Near the Bone
Remember what a levity-laden time 2004 really was? Sure, there was the usual contempt for Republicans and their latest “faux cause” (paying Afghanistan back for [Read More…]
Presently Living in the Plotline of Color Out of Space
The most recent film adaptation of one of H. P. Lovecraft’s most lauded and sinister tales, “The Colour Out of Space,” seems to have been [Read More…]
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…]
