Category: Film
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…]
Cyrano de Blackarac: BlacKkKlansman is a “Smart” Movie For the Trump Regime
BlacKkKlansman is based on one of those stories that proves truth is always stranger than fiction, using Ron Stallworth, the first black cop to enter [Read More…]
Films of the 1980s Favoring “Respect” & Why
As the cycle of nostalgia used to go (before the present generation became more captivated by the immediate past [e.g. 2012]), people tended to “rediscover” [Read More…]
Machete As Forerunner to 2016 Political Campaign
Robert Rodriguez’s 2010, let’s call it, cult classic, Machete, might not have been, shall we say, necessary as something to build on from the series [Read More…]
Hot Summer Nights (Mid-July, When You And I Were Forever Wild)
During 2017, the year that vetted Timothée Chalamet to be a part of the next generation of Hollywood “stars” (if such a term can really exist [Read More…]
