Mel C Takes Cues From Cher, Madonna in “High Heels” Video
As though embracing the full weight of what it means to be a Spice Girl in 2019–that is to say, capitalizing on its present LGBTQ [Read More…]
(Mary) Magdalene, Queen of Catharsis: FKA Twigs’ Crawl Out of a Black Hole (Vaginal Pun Intended)
It’s almost cruelly fitting that depression is likened to being in a black hole and so, too, is it the place we all come out [Read More…]
Instagram To Start Hiding Likes, Aid Those With the Mantra, “Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me, Guess I’ll Eat Some Worms”
We’ve been conditioned for so long to operate on the instant high of quick validation through the social media enterprise. Instagram, of course, has been [Read More…]
The Two Lolitas Lyon and Swain
In 1962, on the heels of directing Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick would exhibit a rare instance of surrendering the tone of Lolita to the domineering pitch [Read More…]
On Death Becomes Her Riffing Off What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
At the core of every long-standing and staunchly embittered female rivalry (at least in the twentieth century, though obviously it’s still happening now) is, of [Read More…]
Phyllis Thinks She’s Hot Shit Because She’s A Sociopath, Or: Double Indemnity & The Two-Dimensional Femme Fatale
Billy Wilder wasn’t exactly known for creating complex female characters, more predisposed instead to focusing on his male heroes and/or their buddy dynamic (which was [Read More…]
Baby’s Second Season is Another Look at the Italian Dilemma with the Madonna/Whore Complex
When last we left the Gossip Girl-like lives of Chiara Altieri (Benedetta Porcaroli) and Ludovica (Alice Pagani), they had gotten in too deep at Mirage, [Read More…]
Vampire in Brooklyn Corroborates That All the Freek-A-Leeks Flock There
Even before Tracy Jordan was reminding us that “Freaky deakies need love too,” there was Eddie Murphy as Maximillian crashing an unmanned boat into the [Read More…]
OK Snowflake
We get it. Gen Z is about to inherit the earth, if it lasts long enough (even though millennials haven’t exactly had their place in [Read More…]
Kiss of the Vampire Family: On the Kardashian-Jenners Dressing as Actual Talented Icons for Halloween
With the unveiling of Kylie Jenner’s first Halloween costume of the “season,” a certain pattern of the Kardashian-Jenner juggernaut has been encapsulated. That is to [Read More…]
