SZA’s “Kill Bill” Video: A Sequel, of Sorts, to the Equally Tarantino-Influenced “Shirt”
By now, paying homage to Quentin Tarantino movies in music videos and songs has been done to death (no pun intended, or whatever). Among others, [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus Heavily Imitates Lana Del Rey Stylings in Teaser for Endless Summer Vacation
Along with announcing that her next album will be released March 10th, the same day as Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A [Read More…]
Revenge Is A Dish Best Served In Subterfuge: The Pale Blue Eye
It’s easy to forget about Edgar Allan Poe’s “lost months” at West Point. For any cursory knowledge of the author would never lead one to [Read More…]
M3GAN Is Ultimately A Techno-Horror Version of Baby Boom and Raising Helen
Although the automatic correlation to make with M3GAN is that it’s a mere pale imitation of the Child’s Play movies (particularly the 2019 one), at [Read More…]
On the Arrogance of “The Boy” and the Logistical Nightmare of Boning Two Different Women Who Live Next Door to Each Other
There are many moments in “The Boy Is Mine” video that require more than just “a little” suspension of disbelief. But chief among them is [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Take A Bow” Video As Harbinger of Technosexuality and Obsessing Over a Simulacrum of a Person
By the time Madonna’s Bedtime Stories album came out in 1994, the postmodern era was well into effect. Indeed, one might say Madonna single-handedly created [Read More…]
Breaking Free of A Friendship Prison Is Especially Challenging on an Island: The Banshees of Inisherin
It’s a simple, yet largely unaddressed subject matter: when one friend wants out of a long-standing friendship and the other doesn’t. But now, Martin McDonagh’s [Read More…]
Better to Have a Constant Sense of Dread Than Be Dead (Or Is It?): Noah Baumbach Revives White Noise at a Moment We Need to be Reminded of Our Inherent Doom
A long-held fear is being dredged up in the artistic output of late. The one that Woody Allen made an entire career out of before [Read More…]
So Daniel Craig (De Facto Hugh Grant) Can Play Gay to Public Delight But No One Else Can?
Among the most talked-about “moments” from Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, the latest edition to the Knives Out “saga,” isn’t so much a moment as a [Read More…]
The Emperor Has No Brain: Glass Onion Takes Shots at the Likes of Elon Musk, “Ye” and Even George W. Bush
Although it’s only been three years since the release of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, it feels like almost an entire lifetime has passed since that [Read More…]
