Category: Film
Greta (Does Not Want to Be Alone)
In keeping with certain themes about New York–1) you’ll never make enough friends for anyone to notice your absence quickly enough and 2) it’s like [Read More…]
The Dead Don’t Die (Or Stop Wanting Coffee, Or WiFi Or Xanax) And That’s Part of Why We’re In A Boschian Hellscape
Never one to shy from the hyper-metaness of existence in his work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest, The Dead Don’t Die, is in every way an unbridled [Read More…]
Marnie Proves It Takes A Special Kind of Man to Endure the Effects of A Woman’s Childhood Trauma
Based on Winston Graham’s 1961 novel, Marnie is arguably a showcase of Alfred Hitchcock at his perverse best. For no British director of his time [Read More…]
Quentin Tarantino Has A Bret Easton Ellis Moment in “Rejecting A Hypothesis” During Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Press Conference
As the excitement mounts even now–in an era of extreme contempt for machismo–for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (when considering Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 [Read More…]
2015 and 2016: The Years of Remaking The Little Mermaid Into A Stripper
Like Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s 2015 debut, The Lure (its original Polish name being The Daughters of the Dance), 2016’s Little Mermaid sought to make the original [Read More…]
Doris Day Represented More Than a Golden Age of Hollywood, But Also a Golden Age of Whitewashing
As one of the last major living icons of un certain Golden Age in Hollywood, the one that made it so much easier to release [Read More…]
Reassessing Mulholland Drive in the Wake of Its Place As the Best Film of the 21st Century
The further time moves along to give viewers more space and distance from the haunting mind fuck that was and is Mulholland Drive, the more [Read More…]
He’s Probably at The Probe: American Gigolo
Naturally, a movie called American Gigolo would ultimately be billed as a love story in the 80s. For what could be more romantic at that [Read More…]
The Most Hoppin’ Movies for Easter
While not quite as mainstream and easily wieldable for profit as that other bastion of Christianity, Christmas, Easter has its fair share of “festive” movies [Read More…]
Sex and Violence: Blue Velvet
From the moment we see the sinister shot of the army of fiendish insects lying in wait beneath the seeming picturesqueness of freshly cut suburban [Read More…]
