Category: Film
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…]
Martin Landau, A Man of Many Lives
Longevity in Hollywood so rarely happens anymore. And usually when it does, one has to be a man in order to achieve it. Martin Landau [Read More…]
Lovesickness Overcomes Muslim Mores in The Big Sick
It has been said that love conquers all. But this was a platitude created before “intermixing”–religiously or ethnically–was deemed an offense seemingly greater than murder [Read More…]
So Won’t You Be My Little Baby (Driver)
What’s a kid with tinnitus and a love of music to do but turn to the constant infiltration of songs swelling through his earbuds to [Read More…]
If Independence Day Had Been Released in 2017
If Independence Day had been released in 2017 (we’re ignoring the whole existence of that Independence Day: Resurgence thing that happened in 2016–which was pre-Trump anyway [Read More…]
