Category: Film
How Do You Render A Pussy Man Even More Sexless? By Turning Him Into a Puppet: Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Dreams” Video
As immortalized in the best documentary ever made, Truth or Dare, Madonna famously called then boyfriend Warren Beatty “pussy man” as an epithet connoting that [Read More…]
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [Read More…]
Ed Earl Dodd: A Man Who Doesn’t Exist
There is the fantasy of a man. The kind primarily dreamed of by a fallen woman who still holds, underneath it all, loose dreams of [Read More…]
Smokey and the Bandit Spotlights Burt Reynolds’ Declaration of Sally Field Being the Love of His Life
In what would be one of the last interviews ever given by a so healthy-appearing Burt Reynolds (that’s the thing about cardiac arrest though, it [Read More…]
The Spy Who Dumped Me Perpetuates the Myth That We Can All Live Well If We Take Risks
In keeping with the new Hollywood feminism that Ocean’s 8 kicked off at the beginning of the summer (everything now being a roundabout reaction to [Read More…]
Ocean’s 8, Greek Tragedian Vengeance & the New Hollywood Feminism
While it is easy to write Ocean’s 8 off as another pile of slop in the Hollywood trough, there is, from the outset, a certain [Read More…]
Juliet, Naked Continues the Aging Musicphile Tradition of Films Based on Nick Hornby Novels
Nick Hornby has become that rare breed of novelist so omnipresent in popular culture as a result of his work’s frequent adaptations to film that [Read More…]
“A Rainy Day” Ahead For Woody Allen’s Film Future & Legacy
After all this time, the demise of Woody Allen feels as anticlimactic as any of his usual resigned endings. With so much buildup to an [Read More…]
New York Minute: An Illustration of Why People Assume the City is Filled With Promise
After the 1970s and 1980s, a strange thing happened in cinema depicting New York as “the invisible character”: instead of making it appear as a [Read More…]
Mark Darcy & Henry Dashwood: Two Men Who Love to Say They’re Sorry
In 2001, Colin Firth officially surgically implanted himself into the hearts of American women with his portrayal of Helen Fielding’s character creation (very much a [Read More…]
