Tag: Cailee Spaeny
Beef Uses the “War” Between Millennials and Gen Z as Smokescreen for the Larger Issue at Hand
Sometimes, it’s difficult to decide which generation has it worse (though less so which is just plain worse): millennials or Gen Z. On the one [Read More…]
Beef Season 2’s Real Contention Isn’t Between People, But Between People and a System
While some might not remember, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan aren’t strangers to acting with one another, having played somewhat contentious ex-lovers in the 2013 [Read More…]
Alien: Romulus: Rain Lacks the Grit of Ripley
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another installment in the Alien franchise, “20th Century Studios” goes and releases Alien: Romulus. In fact, it [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…]
Priscilla: The Marie Antoinette of the 1960s
It’s a story that becomes harder and harder to tell in the present epoch. That of Priscilla’s overt grooming by Elvis in order to eventually [Read More…]
The Meaning of Lana Del Rey Snubbing the Priscilla Soundtrack
Practically since the “dawn of Lana Del Rey,” a.k.a. the Tumblr era, there’s been that image circulating around that features her head Photoshopped (this was [Read More…]
The Real Lesson of Mare of Easttown: Gun Control
The various dissections of Mare of Easttown may forever continue to unfold (as is the case with The Sopranos), which is somewhat ironic considering the [Read More…]
Mare of Easttown: Not A Great PSA For Pennsylvania Continuing to Be Seen as a State of Inbreedin’ Rednecks
While, for the most part, pretty much all of America can be accused of being decidedly redneck—except for those rare “city pockets”—Pennsylvania (even in spite [Read More…]
Mare of Easttown’s (Non-Supernatural) Twin Peaks Feels
The rave reviews for Mare of Easttown are, of course, unsurprising considering how Kate Winslet refuses to participate in any project that won’t get the [Read More…]
“The Craft”: Not a “Legacy” So Much As An Abortion
Because everything old must be made new again and also repurposed for an apparently more lily-livered audience called Gen Z, we’ve been given The Craft: [Read More…]
