Tag: Brad Pitt
While One Might Be NASCAR and Disney, and the Other Formula One and Apple, There’s a Certain Link Between Herbie: Fully Loaded and F1
In its day, of course, Herbie: Fully Loaded was pretty much panned and/or written off as a noticeable dip in Lindsay Lohan’s then ever-rising “teen queen” stock [Read More…]
F1: A Barometer for “the Current Culture”
Perhaps there’s no more appropriate time for F1 to be released than in 2025. What with the summer of Trumpism (Part Deux) reigning unchecked. Ergo, the summer [Read More…]
Rosé Knows That Vegas is the Place to Get “Messy”
Following the release of Don Toliver and Doja Cat’s “Lose My Mind,” the F1 Soundtrack continues to style itself as the new Barbie Soundtrack (for not since said cultural [Read More…]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Not Quite “Twice As Nice” As the Original (Mainly Because of a Tonal Shift From Bona Fide Weird to Corporate Weird), But Good Enough
In 1988, the movie releases of the day were something of a mixed bag. From titles like Killer Klowns from Outer Space to Who Framed [Read More…]
Argylle, Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” of a Movie Still Not Ultimately as Layered as The Lost City
Upon watching the first thirty-five seconds of the trailer for Argylle, it doesn’t take fans of 2022’s The Lost City very long to immediately spot [Read More…]
Celluloid Immortality Doesn’t Make A Slow Career Death Any Less Painful: Babylon
There is Old Hollywood and then there is Germinal Hollywood (“Silent Era” Hollywood, if you prefer). The latter has been less a fascination in the [Read More…]
Like Guy Ritchie Trying to Do Murder on the Orient Express: Bullet (to the Brain) Train
Brad Pitt may have recently admitted to GQ that he knows he’s “on his last leg” with regard to his career (ergo, apparently, his life), [Read More…]
Laughter is Found in The Lost City, Starring Channing Tatum(’s Wig and Leech-Pocked Ass)
In the spirit of The Woman in the Window, The Lost City’s middle-aged protagonist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock, crushing it in the rom-com genre at [Read More…]
When Love Goes to Shit, So Does a Joint Biz, Or: Some Winos Aren’t Forever, Namely Angelina Jolie
As a key couple among the most tainted loves of twenty-first century pop culture, it’s only “right” (or rather, expected) that the drama between Angelina [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…]
