Category: Film
The Best Movies of 2017 (For Real!)
In a year that saw the movie industry crumble as it once knew itself under the weight of sexual assault accusations as heavy as Harvey [Read More…]
Why 200 Cigarettes Remains the Most Enduring New Year’s Eve Movie of All-Time
200 Cigarettes isn’t just the best, most essential New Year’s Eve movie because it’s the only New Year’s Eve movie in a genre that tried [Read More…]
“The Legend of a Man-Fish”: The Shape of Water at Last Finds The Creature From the Black Lagoon Vindicated
“Time is but a river flowing from our past.” This is the first “thought of the day” we’re confronted with as mute cleaning woman Elisa [Read More…]
Circe & Psychology: The Feminist Undertones of Molly’s Game
While the criticism levied specifically at Jessica Chastain–as opposed to the other white actresses she appeared on the tone deaf cover of The Los Angles [Read More…]
The Greatest Showman Suffers From the Same Problems as P.T. Barnum
There are two ways to look at P.T. Barnum: a man promoting diversity during a time when it was unheard of to do so or [Read More…]
The Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as Inspiration to Us All
Perhaps at the time–1992–there was no scarier fate to any gender than ending up a homeless, middle-aged woman. That being said, the now iconic Pigeon [Read More…]
Brenda in Adventures in Babysitting as Precursor to Barb in Stranger Things
Considering the thoroughness with which Stranger Things strives to appear as a show directly out of the 80s, it’s not remarkable that the inspiration for [Read More…]
Don’t Ever Get Married: The Purple Rain Mantra Applies to Tonya Harding Biopic I, Tonya
As The Kid’s father (a.k.a. “Francis L.”), warned him in Purple Rain, “Don’t ever get married.” Or at least don’t let someone’s abusive form of [Read More…]
Living In Oblivion Parodies Indie Filmmaking Being Just As Impure As Major Budget Movies
The 90s. Arguably the time when indie filmmaking was at its peak definition of “indie,” in terms of major Hollywood actors suddenly wanting to get [Read More…]
The Disaster Artist: Money Is the Answer to (Vague Artistic) Success
As far as directors/actors/writers/producers go, perhaps the only person in the history of filmmaking ever to be as lambasted as Tommy Wiseau is Ed Wood–and [Read More…]
