Category: Film
Love Is Witchcraft: Bell, Book and Candle
As a more under the radar “Christmas movie,” Bell, Book and Candle serves to stress the point that every rom-com before and since has wanted [Read More…]
Mary Poppins: Child Gaslighter/Royal Doulton Whore
While Emily Blunt has stated time and again that Mary Poppins Returns is more “homage” to the original than anything else, it has to be [Read More…]
Hormones Are Wasted on the Young: Monkey Business
While there is so much wasted on the self-conscious, yet simultaneously overly arrogant young, perhaps even more than youth itself being unjustly expended on them [Read More…]
Squinting Hard Enough to See the Feminist Slant of Almost Famous
In 2000, when Harvey Weinstein was still experiencing his raping and pillaging glory days, it was, in all honesty, almost impossible to think of a [Read More…]
The Sopranos & Meadow Soprano: Born of Trees Lounge & Chloë Sevigny
As the hype surrounding The Sopranos has been rekindled in the same way as that other show from HBO’s “Golden Era,” Sex and the City, [Read More…]
Yes, Just What the Screenwriter Needed–Another Dig At Their Insignificance
While there seems to be a premium on being hyper-sensitive toward offending others in the present climate of Hollywood, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph seemed [Read More…]
Why It Was More Significant for Glenn Close to Win the Golden Globe for Best Actress Than Lady Gaga
As Hollywood becomes increasingly determined to make good on their promise about incorporating equality at every level of the industry, the Hollywood Foreign Press seemed [Read More…]
Roma: Cleaning Waters Run Deep
If there could be one word used to describe Alfonso Cuarón’s latest, Roma, it would have to be water. Even more than, say, a movie [Read More…]
If Beale Street Could Talk…It Would Tell You That Love Is A Bitch
By the time James Baldwin’s fifth novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, came out in 1974, he had already defected to the south of France–had [Read More…]
A Simple Favor: If Serena Van Der Woodsen Had A Mouth on Her
In the period since Blake Lively has graduated from her millennial Carrie Bradshaw role (sorry Lena Dunham) as Serena Van Der Woodsen, her film choices [Read More…]
