Tag: Christian Bale
Revenge Is A Dish Best Served In Subterfuge: The Pale Blue Eye
It’s easy to forget about Edgar Allan Poe’s “lost months” at West Point. For any cursory knowledge of the author would never lead one to [Read More…]
F Is For Fascism, Not Freedom: Amsterdam Shows That, When It Comes to the Many Incongruities of U.S. Politics, History Repeats
Considering David O. Russell is the type of person who would write his college thesis on the United States intervention in Chile, his commitment to [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Ford v. Ferrari: An Illumination of Assembly Line Corporations Exploiting Unique Talent For Their Own Stifling Gain
In a film whose entire premise is essentially built around the same generational divide being held up for the world to see in the form [Read More…]
Teacups, Wife Manipulation and Bateman Possession: Vice
Adam McKay, a longtime collaborator of former George W. Bush impersonator Will Ferrell (whose Gary Sanchez Productions had a hand in creating Vice), has a [Read More…]
Patrick Bateman’s Take on the Hospitalization of Phil Collins
I don’t know what prompted me to do it. Something about that old saying about killing your idols maybe. I just knew that the thought [Read More…]
Patrick Bateman As A Valentine
You might not think Patrick Bateman would make an ideal Valentine for the gal searching for romance. And yet, there’s something about his bank account [Read More…]
The Knight of Cups Card Reads: “You Don’t Want Love. You Want a Love Experience.”
Among one of the most polarizing directors currently making movies, Terrence Malick has returned to showcase his usual fragmented style with Knight of Cups, an impressionistic [Read More…]
“The Truth is Like Poetry–and Most People Fucking Hate Poetry”: Life Lessons from The Big Short
Think back to that time not long ago you’ve conveniently put out of your memory. It was from 2005 to 2006, when all the world [Read More…]
Golden Globes 2016: More Interesting Than Last Year
Award shows can always go one of two ways: utterly drab or a complete shit show. In the case of this year’s Golden Globe Awards, [Read More…]
