Category: Film
Guess It’s… Never… Really… Over: Breaking Up
There was perhaps something in the air in the Manhattan of the late 90s. Something that made it so that women who oughtn’t settle for [Read More…]
This Is A Story About Control: Hustlers
From the moment the words of Janet Jackson commence Hustlers with her intro to “Control,” it is unequivocal that, indeed, “This is a story about [Read More…]
Life Imitates Art, Art Imitates Life: The Souvenir
That Joanna Hogg’s latest film is named after Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s famed painting, “The Souvenir,” is a fitting homage to the pining nature of the movie’s [Read More…]
Scarlett Johansson, No Stranger to Rubbing and Tugging on Controversy, Strikes Again With Woody Allen Defense–But Will the Controversy Become Another Ghost in the Shell If She Decides to Back Down Again?
It tends to be the case that New York-born ilk stick together. Even when they each hail from the Montague-Capulet divide of Manhattan and Brooklyn. [Read More…]
Destination Wedding Adopts The Tone of Woody Allen and the Coupling Principles of American Splendor
For anyone wondering why Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves have never been paired romantically in a contemporarily set and non-animated film before, wonder no more: [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s “London Boy” Is A Sonic Map In the Spirit of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’s Geographical Inaccuracies & Implausibilities
Taylor Swift may have recently evaded the reputation of being an Aryan wet dream in her sudden advocacy for the marginalized, but, at the same [Read More…]
You Can’t Choose Your Family, But You Can Choose Not To Marry Into A New One: Ready or Not
While it would be easy to write Ready or Not off as another frivolous horror-comedy (though a film it’s comparable to in many ways, Get [Read More…]
The Kitchen Posits That A Matriarchal Mob Would Run More Efficiently Too (But Then Fails To Back Itself Up in Directorial Method)
Because it’s more believable in a fictionalized graphic novel account of the Irish mob in the New York of the 70s to have three women [Read More…]
When Drag Lingo Turns Horror: “You Don’t Read the Book, the Book Reads You” a.k.a. Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark
Upping their resumes in both the horror and YA genre, director André Øvredal and screenwriters Dan and Kevin Hageman get a suffusion of Guillermo Del [Read More…]
Late Night Does Its Best to Implement Tenets of a The Devil Wears Prada Formula, But Stumbles Through the (Movie Theater) Airwaves
Had Paul Feig directed Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, as originally intended, of course, there would have been a certain meta ironic element. For the bulk [Read More…]
