Category: Film
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…]
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…]
