Category: Film
The Endangered Species That is The Comedy Movie in Hyper-PC Times
With the recent backlash against the trailer for Amy Schumer’s upcoming film, I Feel Pretty, which premiered yesterday on The Ellen Show, an alarming trend [Read More…]
A Futile and Stupid Gesture Usefully Explores the Life & Death of Doug Kenney
Of all the people who you wouldn’t expect to have a biopic made about them, Doug Kenney is among the men who top the list. [Read More…]
The Woeful Portrayal of Willie Lopez
You wouldn’t be able to identify Rick Aviles by his true name on sight. No, you would, if you were a movie aficionado worth your [Read More…]
Life Is Only Precious When It’s In Peril: Cléo from 5 to 7
Following La Pointe Courte in 1955, considered by many to be a foreshadowing of the full-tilt French New Wave movement, Agnès Varda’s second feature, Cléo from [Read More…]
John Mahoney Is Not the Dad From Frasier, He’s the Dad From Say Anything…
It’s generally accepted that anyone who watched Frasier (and especially anyone who still watches it) is kind of a fucking weirdo. Not “sophisticated” like Frasier (Kelsey [Read More…]
It Happened One Night & Overboard: Emphasizing the Rich Girl Need to Be Dominated by A Working Man
Pulling the coveted sweep of the Oscars that is winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Adapted), It Happened One [Read More…]
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame Keeps a Looser Rein on Her Boy Toy Than Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
What’s worse than being an aging woman? An aging woman who used to be lusted after by the masses as a film star. While this [Read More…]
Angela Lansbury as the Ultimate Frivolous Woman in Blue Hawaii
As far as movies that are hard to watch for their overt misogyny go, Blue Hawaii is one of the ones that increasingly takes the [Read More…]
Awards Shows Continue to Suffer the Girls Effect (& Only Blue Ivy Seems to Notice)
Like a time when a woman could live scot-free in exchange for being verbally abused and cheated on, it’s hard to imagine an era in [Read More…]
Ghost Has Nothing on A Ghost Story in Terms of Haunting Devotion
The budget for Jerry Zucker’s 1990 classic, Ghost, was 505.7 million dollars. The budget for David Lowery’s A Ghost Story was 100,000 dollars. When watching [Read More…]
