Category: Film
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…]
Miley Cyrus’ “Slide Away” Builds On The Unignorable Trend of Female Pop Singers Having A Monopoly on Heartache
It seems as though an eternity has passed since Justin Timberlake came out with the jilted from the male perspective anthem that was 2002’s “Cry [Read More…]
The Last Big Dick Picture: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Perhaps it took Quentin Tarantino this long to fully (and usefully) process the fact that he was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds’ character on [Read More…]
If Your Cat Could Talk, He Would Say, “Feed Me, Fuckface”: The Voices
Is it challenging to make a schizophrenic serial killer come across as endearing? Not for Ryan Reynolds interpreting Michael R. Perry’s deftly paced script for [Read More…]
A Midsommar Night’s Psilocybin Trip
For many watching Midsommar, the furthest thing from their mind will be the image of its then four-year-old director, Ari Aster, taking in his first [Read More…]
