Category: Film
The Edge of Seventeen Often Feels Like The Edge of Thirty, Forty & Beyond
Billed essentially as the teen movie that’s been missing in our lives since Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman brought us 2007’s Juno, Kelly Fremon Craig’s The [Read More…]
L’amour Nocturne: Love is Dark as Night in Nocturnal Animals
“If you love someone, you work it out. You don’t just throw it away. You have to be very careful with it–you might not find [Read More…]
Suffocating/Drowning in Estrogen: The Love Witch
Pop culture has been rather attuned to certain gender-related events of late–chiefly, Hillary not getting elected. Anna Biller’s sixth film, The Love Witch (a triumph [Read More…]
Some Like It Hot & Married to the Mob: Correlations
With Swing Shift and Something Wild, director Jonathan Demme established himself as a comedic force to be reckoned with in the 80s, much of his [Read More…]
Is Loving Worth It (Both Filmically and Literally)?
As the ominous force known as Donald Trump’s presidency approaches, Jeff Nichols’ Loving comes at a time when we need to be reminded just how far [Read More…]
Something to Braga About: Aquarius
In an age during which it’s lauded to eradicate the old and embrace the new (regardless of its lack of quality), the trend in real [Read More…]
A Monster Begat by Cameos: Trump Was Glorified in the Media Long Before Negative Coverage Plagued His Presidential Run
“The Donald,” a name that once sounded endearing when it came from Ivana Trump but now sounds more fittingly like the epithet of a horrific [Read More…]
A Neurosurgeon Cut Down to Size: Doctor Strange
When you get right down to it, neurosurgeons are, well, assholes. Sure, what they do is of value, but why they do it is, more [Read More…]
Who Knew Thimbles Could Be So Erotic?: The Handmaiden
Like the British imperialistic rule of India, non-history enthusiasts often forget about the Japanese control of Korea that began in 1910 and culminated at the end [Read More…]
The Accountant Needed to Happen Just to Make the Profession Seem Less Dull
Maybe the only other profession as “unsexy” as accountant is paralegal. There’s very little room in the field to finesse into, shall we say, an [Read More…]
