Tag: 90s movies
As If Truth or Dare, Spice World and Josie and the Pussycats Joined Forces to Spawn a Macabre Child: The Moment
In the still short amount of time (though not to no-attention-span Gen Z) since Brat was released on June 7, 2024, Charli XCX has systematically [Read More…]
Macaulay Culkin’s Home Instead Commercial Tempted the Reaper, Goddammit
Although Catherine O’Hara’s career has been filled with many iconic roles, it is still, for so many, the part of “Kevin’s mom” a.k.a. Kate McCallister [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #11: Despite Her Disgust With Their Style, Cher Horowitz’s Generation Now Looks Positively Dapper (Or At Least More Audacious)
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is (in this case, to the present state of [Read More…]
The Housemaid: Surprisingly Not a Rip-off of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
When it comes to portraying a “girlboss” from hell, Amanda Seyfried as Nina Winchester just might actually be giving Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly some [Read More…]
In the Present, Kate McCallister Would Be Called a “Karen” Rather Than “Hyper”
While the fan focus of Home Alone tends to be on Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) or his antagonists, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin’s mom, [Read More…]
A New Key Takeaway From Home Alone: Busybodies Ruin Lives
As the obsession with Home Alone only grows stronger with each passing year, it’s been studied almost like a hallowed text. And technically, it is, [Read More…]
Macaulay Culkin Doubles Down on His “Wanna Feel Old?” Troll with a New Home Alone-Inspired Advert About In-Home Care for Kevin’s Mom
As though to further build on his infamous 2020 tweet (back when Twitter was still Twitter) that went, “Wanna feel old? I’m forty now,” Macaulay [Read More…]
Caught Stealing With a Hand in Pi: Darren Aronofsky’s Expertise in 1998
As Xan Brooks of The Guardian pointed out in an interview with Darren Aronofsky, his latest film, Caught Stealing, “could almost be his parallel-universe first movie, given that [Read More…]
Haunted by Summer (and Nostalgia) Forever: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Requel Edition
“Nostalgia’s overrated.” This is what Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) retorts at one point to Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), a fellow OG of being [Read More…]
Don’t Call Sinners the Black From Dusk Till Dawn
Despite the universal praise for Ryan Coogler’s latest film, Sinners, there is something of a pall hanging over it as a result of the comparisons that [Read More…]
