Juliet, Naked Continues the Aging Musicphile Tradition of Films Based on Nick Hornby Novels
Nick Hornby has become that rare breed of novelist so omnipresent in popular culture as a result of his work’s frequent adaptations to film that [Read More…]
“A Rainy Day” Ahead For Woody Allen’s Film Future & Legacy
After all this time, the demise of Woody Allen feels as anticlimactic as any of his usual resigned endings. With so much buildup to an [Read More…]
New York Minute: An Illustration of Why People Assume the City is Filled With Promise
After the 1970s and 1980s, a strange thing happened in cinema depicting New York as “the invisible character”: instead of making it appear as a [Read More…]
Depardieu Your Anti-Hero
Not that it wasn’t already somewhat laden with just as much creep factor as Lolita to begin with, but to add further sullying to My [Read More…]
Mark Darcy & Henry Dashwood: Two Men Who Love to Say They’re Sorry
In 2001, Colin Firth officially surgically implanted himself into the hearts of American women with his portrayal of Helen Fielding’s character creation (very much a [Read More…]
Dev Hynes Cannot Be Reduced to “Kendrick Lamar for Queer Black Folk” on Negro Swan
Because just as the movie industry enjoys saying things like, “It’s Sharknado meets La La Land,” so, too, does the music biz relish the opportunity [Read More…]
Marauder: The Word of the Century, the Sixth Album of Interpol
A deliberate choice, to be sure, Interpol, now in three-person form without Carlos Dengler on bass (the second album since El Pintor that this has [Read More…]
“If You Really Love Nothing,” You’re Probably Living In L.A. & Are Kristen Stewart
As all bands tend to do once they get big enough and have established the longevity that proves they deserve a bigger budget for their [Read More…]
The Death of Robin Leach Rather Signifies the Death of Coveting Wealth
In the 1980s, there was no better example of just how much these years had earned the nickname “the decade of excess” than a certain [Read More…]
Cyrano de Blackarac: BlacKkKlansman is a “Smart” Movie For the Trump Regime
BlacKkKlansman is based on one of those stories that proves truth is always stranger than fiction, using Ron Stallworth, the first black cop to enter [Read More…]
