In Praise of the Stephen Sondheim Contributions to I’m Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy
Even though, without question, “Vogue” will forever remain the only song remembered by non-Madonna fans from I’m Breathless, it’s more important than ever to recognize [Read More…]
Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic
As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]
Bad Accent Competition: House of Gucci
One would like to go into House of Gucci with an open mind, of course. And yet, it’s a challenge to do so when any [Read More…]
In Subtle Yet Palpable Ways, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Accents the Destitution of the Present in Comparison to the 80s
While Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been played up as a film filled with the kind of nostalgia that fans can surely appreciate, the “third installment” is [Read More…]
Chopstick Killer: Titane Would be Totally Original Were It Not For the Fetishists of Crash
After the “underground” success of 2016’s Raw, Julia Ducournau’s second feature film (third, if you count her TV movie, Mange), Titane, has been met with [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #41: Britney Painting Xtina as a Puta
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
More Complex Fembots—Or Rather, Menbots: I’m Your Man
It’s a “fantasy” that keeps coming up again and again. Perhaps because it feels so close to becoming a reality, what with Grimes assuring us [Read More…]
Adele: No Longer 30, But Still Flirty and Thriving (While Channeling Amy Winehouse)
One supposes that if anyone could have made their thirties look truly chic, it was not Carrie Bradshaw, but one, Adele Adkins. Better known as [Read More…]
“Venice Bitch” is the Superior Ten-Minute Song
Lana Del Rey has long been watching certain parties inch closer and closer to “copping her musical style.” Most recently, it’s been Lorde, accused of [Read More…]
The Aggressively White Heteronormativity of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Taylor Swift wields this indelible Pablo Neruda quote to set the tone for a song Jake Gyllenhaal [Read More…]
