Category: Film
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…]
The Preferability of Mortality: Interview With the Vampire
In a classic case of what’s known as choosing from shit sandwich or shit cereal, wealthy plantation owner Louis (Brad Pitt, at his 1994 peak) [Read More…]
Tim Burton Makes Dumbo His Own While Also Emphasizing the Original Message That “Normals” Lack Vision
Dumbo has been accused of being made by Disney for a fast buck, a way to further profits via the barrage of CGI remakes that [Read More…]
Cléo from 5 to 7 as It Applied to Agnès Varda’s Later Years
While Agnès Varda might not have been a vain or decidedly frivolous woman, the manner in which she fell prey to death harkens back to [Read More…]
When Opportunity Knocks: Jordan Peele’s Us and the Underlying Argument in Favor of the Marginalized
In case there was any confusion about what year Us begins, the audience is given about three minutes’ worth of footage from a Hands Across [Read More…]
