The Promising Young Woman Vibes of Strange Darling
Although JT Mollner might have given the world a feature length debut that was a Western (specifically, Outlaws and Angels), he was so clearly destined [Read More…]
The Wisdom of Youth: My Old Ass
The common belief goes: “If I had it to do all over again, I would do everything differently.” The scenario presented in Megan Park’s My [Read More…]
Martha and Megan: Two Documentaries With a Timely Lens Focused on Misogyny
On the heels of Donald Trump incomprehensibly being elected president, two documentaries about very distinctly different women (who’ve both endured the same kind of misogyny [Read More…]
Charli XCX Achieves the Ultimate in Establishment Acknowledgement Via the 2025 Grammy Nominations
The last time Charli XCX was nominated for a Grammy, it was not only ten years ago (at the end of 2014), but also as [Read More…]
It Was Easier to (Sort of) Believe in the Defiant Optimism of a Song Like Lana Del Rey’s “When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing” in 2017
2017 marked the first year that Lana Del Rey actually “deigned” to get political in her music. And yes, it took fellow quintessential white female [Read More…]
The Julia Roberts-Narrated Harris-Walz Ad Sends An Antithetical Message About So-Called Female Empowerment
The message that the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign team (or, to be more precise/fair, their “satellite supporters”) wanted to send with their Julia Roberts-narrated ad—titled [Read More…]
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Impossible to Forget This Year
While it certainly isn’t the “strangest” thing about the U.S. election of 2024, it bears a particularly on-the-nose kind of ominousness that the final date [Read More…]
Woman of the Hour and Saoirse Ronan on The Graham Norton Show: Two Key Moments in “The Culture” Right Now That Tell a Larger Story
In a now viral moment on The Graham Norton Show that, to Saoirse Ronan, came as a complete surprise, the actress casually “quips” (while being [Read More…]
The Voss Water Repetition in Smile 2 and What It Says About Film Product Placement Today
Perhaps even more than the various terrifying scenes of Smile 2, what audiences are seeming to remember most after seeing Parker Finn’s sequel is the [Read More…]
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
