Jennifer Check Continues to Inspire in Madison Beer’s “Make You Mine” Video
For the girl who once said, “I am bi, always have been, it’s nothing new,” perhaps an homage to Diablo Cody’s beloved 2009 “camp classic,” [Read More…]
Back to Black Makes Amy Winehouse’s Image Go Back to Shit
When Asif Kapadia’s Amy came out in 2015, the director’s monumental achievement of being able to make audiences truly understand Amy Winehouse’s life and art—the [Read More…]
Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry…For Your ‘Roid Rage: Love Lies Bleeding
It would seem lesbianism is “in the air” of late. At least in mainstream pop culture—something that hasn’t happened much since the days of t.A.T.u. [Read More…]
Challengers Attempts to Challenge Jules and Jim in the Love Triangle Genre
In what is now surely the “instant classic” movie poster for Challengers, there is an illustrated version of Tashi Duncan (Zendaya)—her hair cropped short—wearing sunglasses [Read More…]
What Does It Say About the Current Culture That A Critic Has To Hide Their Name to Write An Unfiltered Assessment of a Taylor Swift Album?
While Taylor Swift, in her cloying manner, has seen fit to post all of the glowing reviews she collected about The Tortured Poets Department by [Read More…]
Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Para Argentina o Cualquier Hombre)
Shakira’s first album of this decade, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, is something of a yin to the yang of El Dorado (the record she [Read More…]
Sell Your Soul for the Highest Viewership: Late Night With the Devil
When it comes to slow burns (no Hades pun intended), few films of recent memory have been as deft at it as Late Night With [Read More…]
“Fortnight” Video: Being in (Unrequited) Love/Artistically Inclined Will Send You to the Loony Bin
Despite Taylor Swift’s pervasiveness, it’s probably more likely that Gen Zers would associate the word “fortnight” with the misspelled (as “Fortnite”) video game of the [Read More…]
Just Who Is Taylor Swift Really Torturing on The Tortured Poets Department? Anyone She Can (Herself Included).
Pulling close to the same rate of album releases—one a year—that Rihanna once did starting in 2005 (with some rare breaks in 2008 and between [Read More…]
Civil War’s Overarching Message Isn’t Political, Or: One Must Do What They Can to “Pass the Baton,” Even in Apocalyptic Times
Sadly, it’s not really a stretch to imagine the United States finding itself in a second Civil War. Perhaps this is why writer-director Alex Garland [Read More…]
