Category: Film
Left With Something of A Hunger After Consuming Florence + the Machine’s High As Hope
Like so many people coming out of the woodwork from the mid/late 00s, Florence + the Machine adds to the roll call of musicians (like [Read More…]
Something Old Is New Again (As Usual): Lana Del Rey’s “Elvis” and The King
For those non-fangirls and boys out there, word of Lana Del Rey offering a new “composition,” as she dubbed it in typical Del Rey fashion, [Read More…]
More Than Sororal Relationships, Sisters Addresses Coming to Terms With Middle Age
“We did it you guys. We stopped time.” So marvels Kelly (Rachel Dratch), a former high school classmate of illustrious Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) [Read More…]
David Lynch Continues to Tell Us, “I Don’t Feel That I Need to Explain My Art to You, Warren”
David Lynch, the king of conjuring interpretations and criticisms that will probably never signify any of what he originally intended (hence, some parties arguing that [Read More…]
Never Underestimate the Value of Having a Schizoid Friend: Thoroughbreds
First-time writer-director Cory Finley might have had the fortune of attending Yale–the embodiment of New England privilege–but he somehow never lost his empathy, though he [Read More…]
Strike A Pose Is the Catharsis Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour Dancers Needed to Move On
Madonna herself once called the Blond Ambition Tour cathartic–or as her brother and then set designer called it “like growing up” because “you can’t get [Read More…]
She Might Have Been Living in A Bunker for Most of Her Life, But It Doesn’t Take Kimmy Very Long to Comprehend the Post-#MeToo Paradigm in Season 4, Part 1 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Wanting to break us off slowly for that final goodbye to the series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is being released in two parts for its fourth [Read More…]
Can I Be Me? The Question Whitney Houston Always Asked & Never Wanted to Answer
“Whitney Houston died of a broken heart.” So goes the introduction to the documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me?, the one that viewers ought to [Read More…]
The Only Cliche IBIZA Doesn’t Employ Is the One It Should: Playing “I Took A Pill in Ibiza”
Like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, Ibiza is the sort of place that evokes nothing but expressions of either extreme reverie or regret. Except, unlike the [Read More…]
Fully Expects to Be Exonerated: Harvey Weinstein’s Third Act as A Testament to Male Denial
Even though it might have felt at least somewhat promising that Harvey Weinstein should “surrender Dorothy” with all the charges and accusations levied him by [Read More…]
