Category: Film
Scream 3 Might Just Be More Eerie Than All the Rest For Its Meta Harvey Weinstein Factor
With Kevin Williamson’s indelible imprint on Scream and Scream 2, there was no denying that the script for the third installment would be doomed without [Read More…]
Jojo Rabbit: An Absurdist Nazi Satire in the Style of Moonrise Kingdom That Shows How Hate is Indoctrinated at a Formative Age
“You could teach me to be cruel/Like the way they torture you/Teach me to be cruel/Like the way they torture you/It’s alright, twist the knife,” [Read More…]
Maleficent Fails to Deliver on Being Much of a “Mistress of Evil”
For a woman who has long been painted as one of the most iconic evil villains of Disney’s repackaged and sanitized fairy tales, Maleficent (Angelina [Read More…]
Yesterday Pays Homage to The Beatles Via an Inverse Mandela Effect
For those unfamiliar with the Mandela effect, something of a mass delusion that facilitates a large bulk of the population remembering an event or entity [Read More…]
Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns: Send in Joker
Perhaps because the times of the present are so expectedly nihilistic and void, it only made sense for co-writers Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (who [Read More…]
The Double Standard of Actresses Being Viewed As Prostitutes While Actors Are Heralded As “Artists”
There is a scene in the underrated rom-com masterpiece that is Notting Hill that says everything you need to know about the double standard in [Read More…]
Without Dolor, There Can Be No Gloria
If anyone was fated to play Pedro Almodóvar’s mother in a meta biopic of his life, it could have been none other than Penélope Cruz, [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
In Stockholm, Robert Budreau Tries to Make Us Understand Empathizing With One’s Captors
Like the movie that launched screenwriter-director Robert Budreau to fame, called Born to Be Blue, Stockholm also stars Ethan Hawke and could just as easily [Read More…]
A Rainy Day in New York Offers A Wet Behind the Ears Perspective of the City
A crowd outside of the theater clamors to get into two sold out showings of Woody Allen’s latest movie. The herd of people extending down [Read More…]
