Tag: 90s movies
Dylan McKay: The Last of the Moody Heterosexual Male Tropes
It was roughly around the time of 1995 (also, incidentally, the same year Luke Perry left Beverly Hills 90210 to pursue “other projects”) that the [Read More…]
In Defense of Meredith Blake, Rightful Child Hater
While Lindsay Lohan was once capable of rendering audiences sympathetic toward her character before she became a cokehead/lush/TMZ darling, she managed to make us fall [Read More…]
“We’re Gonna Have A Nice Family Dinner”: Clueless & The Highlight on a Moment of Peak White Suburban Repression
Dan Hedaya has played many parts in his decade-spanning career, among the most important being Richard Nixon in Dick, but his most valuable of all [Read More…]
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [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…]
Living In Oblivion Parodies Indie Filmmaking Being Just As Impure As Major Budget Movies
The 90s. Arguably the time when indie filmmaking was at its peak definition of “indie,” in terms of major Hollywood actors suddenly wanting to get [Read More…]
About (A) Girl: A Movie That Re-Creates My-So Called Life for the Pacific Northwest
The pinnacle of what it meant to be a part of a certain music scene in the Pacific Northwest happened long before Girl, a 1998 [Read More…]
The Tragic Destiny of the Fatally Flawed Protagonist in Carlito’s Way
It is a tale as old as the first spoken and written words in literature: a fatally flawed hero tries to avoid his inevitable tragic [Read More…]
We’re All on The Truman Show Now
At the time of its release in 1998, Peter Weir’s The Truman Show seemed like almost an impossible concept to fathom. After all, before the [Read More…]
The Mother-Daughter Relationship Broken Down in Postcards From The Edge
Carrie Fisher’s “semi”-autobiographical 1987 novel, Postcards From the Edge, with its pill-popping heroine, was bound to be adapted into a film. And there was no [Read More…]