Jake Gyllenhaal’s Claim Regarding Red (Taylor’s Version) Sparks the Query: Is It Less Satisfying to Know the Ex You Targeted in Your Art Will Never “Receive” the Work?
In a new Esquire cover story, “Jake Gyllenhaal Reconsiders” or, in print format, “Jake Gyllenhaal Is Not the Man You Think He Is,” the eponymous [Read More…]
When Love Goes to Shit, So Does a Joint Biz, Or: Some Winos Aren’t Forever, Namely Angelina Jolie
As a key couple among the most tainted loves of twenty-first century pop culture, it’s only “right” (or rather, expected) that the drama between Angelina [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #5: J. Lo Having a Song Called “Marry Me”
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. On the one hand, it might seem perfectly [Read More…]
Off-Limits Aesthetics: J. Lo Tries to Do Madonna’s Style of Performative Catholicism with “Church”
There are some pop culture moments that should be left off limits in terms of “borrowing” or “paying homage.” Not only because they’re sacrosanct, but [Read More…]
New York Causes a Spontaneous Mental Blackout: Italian Studies
The memory loss or “spontaneous amnesia” genre is nothing new in cinema. It arguably began in 1915, with The Garden of Lies and The Right [Read More…]
Bad Romance: The Most Tainted Love in Twenty-First Century Pop Culture
There is no paucity of romances gone wrong, sour or otherwise positively suicidal (namely, Romeo and Juliet) in the annals of human history. As such, [Read More…]
Dating a Movie Star in the 1990s Was So Much More Private Than Dating (/Marrying) a Pop Star in the 2020s
Being that it’s no great leap to make the connection between Kat Coiro’s Marry Me and Roger Michell’s Notting Hill, it bears remarking upon the [Read More…]
Caricaturizing Kesha: Kim Petras Enlists Dr. Luke to Co-Write and Produce the Ultimately Damaging Slut Pop
While not exactly a “cultural reset”—the phrase that gets thrown about so freely for just about everything—Kim Petras’ seven-track EP, Slut Pop, does something that [Read More…]
Image is Everything, Love is a Lie: Why The Tinder Swindler Resonates On So Many Levels
As the slow burn of Netflix’s latest hit, The Tinder Swindler, unfolds, viewers might initially be led to believe Felicity Morris’ documentary is nothing special. [Read More…]
Samantha Jones Does Not Want to Meet for a Cocktail in Paris
There were so many injustices done to beloved characters throughout And Just Like That… (even the ones that aren’t hastily “offed” in the way Stanford [Read More…]
