Category: Film
Happy Death Day: Gossip Girl, Groundhog Day-ified
With every October comes the requisite release of at least three to five horror movies, usually only one of which serves up the camp factor. [Read More…]
We’re Gonna Have A “Good Time”
The other unstoppable brother duo besides Mark and Jay Duplass, Josh and Benny Safdie, best known for collaborating on films like The Pleasure of Being [Read More…]
Erotomania in The Crush
Erotomania is a subject often addressed in film, though rarely from the female perspective. For the most part, it is male-oriented obsession that drives the [Read More…]
God Hates Non-Famous Landmarks, Spares The Parent Trap House from Wildfires Raging Near Napa
As one of the few films set in Napa (apart from, obviously, Sideways), the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap stands out not just for [Read More…]
Visages Villages–Un Beau Mirage
The camera as pen, writing a narrative in a literary and therefore sentimentalist way, is nothing new to auteur Agnès Varda. From the moment of her [Read More…]
Hopefully Jared Leto Plays A Better Hugh Hefner Than Mark David Chapman
Jared Leto may have the forgiveness of time on his side when it comes to audiences forgetting all about the rather bad 2007 Mark David [Read More…]
The Cringeworthiness of Re-Watching The Break-Up
When The Break-Up came out in 2006, it was on the heels of Jennifer Aniston’s own highly public break-up with Brad Pitt—or rather, she was [Read More…]
Battle of the Sexes: A League of Their Own-esque for More Reasons Than Bill Pullman Being In It
“I never said women were better. I said we deserved the same respect as men.” Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, clearly vying for another Oscar [Read More…]
Repo Man As Prequel to Pretty in Pink
Alex Cox and John Hughes have little in common directorially–except for Harry Dean Stanton. A testament to the character actor’s ability to flit in and [Read More…]
mother!: Probably PTSD-Inducing for Every Woman
The terrifying element about Darren Aronofsky’s latest, mother!, has nothing to do with things that go bump in the night, creaky stairs or phantom blood. [Read More…]
