Category: Film
A Pure Artist Can’t Promote: Finding Vivian Maier
It is said, most especially in the twenty-first century–what with the “democratization” of the internet–that an artist can no longer “just be” an artist. They [Read More…]
Teacups, Wife Manipulation and Bateman Possession: Vice
Adam McKay, a longtime collaborator of former George W. Bush impersonator Will Ferrell (whose Gary Sanchez Productions had a hand in creating Vice), has a [Read More…]
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Shit–Unless It’s Dolly Parton: Dumplin’
Seeming to have a certain appetite for the pageant genre and the emotional turmoil it can cause (see: Insatiable), Netflix has seen fit to bring [Read More…]
Toss Maid in Manhattan & Pretty Woman in the Screenplay Blender and You Have Second Act
With thirty-two film credits to her name, starting with her first role in 1986’s My Little Girl, Jennifer Lopez is more “movie star” than singer [Read More…]
Google Assistant Ad With Macaulay Culkin Proves All Movie Plots Should Just Be Set in the Past Now
It only took three years since the first episode of Jack Dishel’s :DRYVRS for Macaulay Culkin to once more reboot another sendup of his most [Read More…]
The Master-Slave Model of Romance in Love Actually
As time moves further away from 2003 and the accepted flagrant sexism that came with it–paraded with perhaps the most glee of all in film [Read More…]
If Selling Vacuity Is Wrong, Celeste Doesn’t Want to Be Right–And Neither Does the 21st Century: Vox Lux
Just before her career is about to skyrocket her into the realm of irrevocable fame that perhaps only a few pop stars with the rare [Read More…]
“I Should’ve Followed Your Example and Never Married”: Mary, Queen of Scots Gives One of Europe’s Most Complex Monarchs An Overdue Feminist Twist
While one would think that, based upon the previews, Mary, Queen of Scots was destined to be a more historically accurate foil to The Favourite [Read More…]
The Blonde/Brunette Divide As Manifested by Jessica Simpson & Natalie Portman
While Jessica Simpson hasn’t been that adroit at “grabbing headlines” since the height of her early 00s popularity when Nick and Jessica: Newlyweds served as [Read More…]
That Wouldn’t Impress Yolandi Visser Much: Dounia and Kehlani’s “Rich Girl Mood”
There is no girl who is never not in a “rich girl mood.” That being said, entitlement is a helluva drug, and maybe even more [Read More…]
