Category: Film
In A Lonely Place: Like a Prophetic Biopic of Madonna & Sean Penn
When most people talk about Nicholas Ray’s rendering of In A Lonely Place, they like to preface it with how dark and tragic the story [Read More…]
Prick Up Your Ears: The Jealousy Between Two Artists/Lovers: One Successful, One Not
The only thing worse than being a failure is being a failure with a more successful, less talented friend. But perhaps worse still is when [Read More…]
Why Is There A Gaga: Five Foot Two When Truth or Dare Already Exists?
For someone who likes to stir the pot with Madonna, even going so far as to drum up viewings by including a cliffhanger snippet in [Read More…]
Patti Cake$: An Ode to Dream Preservation
“You’re a culture vulture… stick to making drinks, white girl.” So it is that 23-year-old Patricia “Dumbo” Dombrowski’s (Danielle Macdonald) rap idol, O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah), [Read More…]
The Camp Obsession That Wouldn’t Die: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
After Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp premiered on Netflix on July 31, 2015, one perhaps wrongly assumed this would be the [Read More…]
England Is Mine: The Morrissey Equivalent of Control
There was one single moment in Manchester music history that seemed to galvanize every denizen with even the slightest inclination to start a band: June [Read More…]
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…]
