Tag: 90s movies
Unable to Get A Mean Girls Reunion, Lindsay Lohan Settles For A The Parent Trap One
After years of being the most desperate cast member–despite being the film’s “star” (though we all know it was Rachel McAdams)–to finagle a Mean Girls [Read More…]
Dangerous Minds: The Rare Conundrum of A Movie Being Offensively Condescending & Also Good
From the moment LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) walks into the classroom of Parkmont High, she is branded as “white bread” by the students she’s been [Read More…]
“You Want a Dorito?” How The Doom Generation Captured the American Ability to File Away Trauma
If anyone has ever mastered the art of disaffection and its immortalization in the pop culture oeuvre, it’s Generation X. Or what Gregg Araki billed [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #4: Judging the Mom From What’s Eating Gilbert Grape When That’s What the World Has Devolved To
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. The 90s. [Read More…]
12 Monkeys & The Cassandra Complex: Why Having Foresight Makes No Difference in Trying to Stop a Pandemic
As the coronavirus rages on its world tour without signs of slowing down (despite the lies China is likely telling about no more reported cases), [Read More…]
That Night: A Long Island Romeo and Juliet
In 1961, there wasn’t much in the way of excitement on Long Island (there still isn’t really). For ten-year-old Alice Bloom (Eliza Dushku, in her [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…]
Guess It’s… Never… Really… Over: Breaking Up
There was perhaps something in the air in the Manhattan of the late 90s. Something that made it so that women who oughtn’t settle for [Read More…]
Even In the Most Germinal Phase of the Internet, The Net Warned Against It As A Black Hole of Identity Loss
Despite the fact that, in the present, so much of one’s identity is wrapped up in the “profiles” of social media (a.k.a. the internet)–as though [Read More…]
Poison Ivy Is An Understated Class Warfare Movie Posing As Another “Erotic Thriller” of the Early 90s
In a land that now seems very far away to us all–90s L.A.–it was still possible for a girl to pull herself up by her [Read More…]