Category: Film
In The Ongoing LDR/Banks War, Del Rey Is Not Taking A Page from Miley Cyrus–Perhaps the Only Other White Lady to Have “Taken A Stand” Against A Black Artist
It is something of an unspoken cardinal rule that the white woman must never speak “out of turn” against a black woman lest she 1) [Read More…]
Wicked Witch of the West Is to Life as “Surrender Dorothy” Is to You
We all reach those breaking point moments. The ones where we must ask ourselves why we bother to persist in our chosen field (usually said [Read More…]
Soon-Yi: “Love” Is Just A Matter of Pursuit & Vulnerability
As if the shock and moral outrage over Woody Allen’s entire existence couldn’t possibly intensify, the very woman within the eye of the storm, watching [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
The Direction of Lana Del Rey’s Sound Continues To Meld Her Pre-Fame Style With Leonard Cohen’s
In November of 2017, Lana Del Rey participated in a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in his hometown of Montreal. Called Tower of Song (in [Read More…]
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…]
