Category: Film
The Great Dictator: Timeless to A Fault
When The Great Dictator came out in 1940, Charlie Chaplin had no idea of the extent of the atrocities being carried out in Nazi concentration [Read More…]
Ingrid Goes West: A Dark Examination of Our New Normal Stalker Culture
We’re all guilty of the “look at me, look at me” syndrome that comes with posting things on Instagram (some, like yours truly, guiltier than [Read More…]
Write Where It Hurts: The Only Living Boy In New York
For a director whose debut was (500) Days of Summer, it’s something of an about-face to shift to an entirely opposite and opposed coast with [Read More…]
Nocturama: The Breakfast Club With Terrorismo
With his second feature in 2001, The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello established himself firmly as a writer-director willing to address the hard-hitting subjects. By 2014, with [Read More…]
Gypsy: Like If Big Little Lies Were Set in New York & All Three Characters Were Rolled Into Naomi Watts
There’s a reason the trope about therapists being the most fucked up ones of all exists. And if there’s any solid pop culture evidence of [Read More…]
Dunkirk: A Philosophy of Ethics Landmine
Like all requisite major Hollywood war movies that come about roughly every five to ten years, the deaths in Dunkirk set the stage of urgency [Read More…]
Jeanne Moreau, Apex of An Iconic Bizarre Love Triangle
Coming on strong after the one-two punch of his debut and sophomore films, The 400 Blows and Don’t Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut followed up [Read More…]
“I’m Not Here to Collect Postcards”: The Atomic Blonde Who Came in From the Cold of London & Into the Fire of Berlin
If you thought times of political tension were anything new, Atomic Blonde is the perfect slick, yet cheeky action, yet historical film to remind you [Read More…]
John Heard: Beyond His Role As National Daddy
John Heard’s death on July 21st dredged up the role that he was, of course, most known for: “the dad from Home Alone” a.k.a. Peter [Read More…]
Home From the Hill: A Smorgasbord of Dramatic Irony
The assignation of Vincente Minnelli to a film as melodramatic and father/son-centric as Home From the Hill seemed, at first, out of place in the [Read More…]
