Tag: Christina Ricci
Thing Comes to Wednesday Season 2’s Rescue
While some would say that Lady Gaga “makes” season two of Wednesday (between her cameo and the song she provided for it, “The Dead Dance”), [Read More…]
Doja Cat’s “Demons” Video Is the Scariest Thing Christina Ricci Has Ever Starred In
As one of pop culture’s main “Queens of Spook,” Christina Ricci’s presence in anything haunted, eerie, ghostly or generally “demonic” is usually a no-brainer (this [Read More…]
Mother of the Misery Chicks: Wednesday Addams As the Forebear for Emily the Strange and Daria
There’s an episode in season one of Daria called “The Misery Chick.” In it, a former quarterback/golden boy who attended Lawndale High, Tommy Sherman, is [Read More…]
Softcore Gloom: The Gentrification of Wednesday Addams Includes Nods to Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gilmore Girls and Harry Potter
Maybe it seems ironic to say that the character of Wednesday Addams has been “gentrified,” considering she’s no longer white. And sure, in Jenna Ortega’s [Read More…]
With A Callback to Addams Family Values, Wednesday Prompts Thanksgiving Revelers to Remember That It’s Still “Pilgrim World”
Being that Wednesday has arrived to Netflix just in time to capture the “Thanksgiving spirit,” it’s clearly no coincidence that, in episode three of the [Read More…]
Why 200 Cigarettes Remains the Most Enduring New Year’s Eve Movie of All-Time
200 Cigarettes isn’t just the best, most essential New Year’s Eve movie because it’s the only New Year’s Eve movie in a genre that tried [Read More…]
Zelda & F. Scott: The Bonnie & Clyde of The Literary World in Z: The Beginning of Everything
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” For Zelda Sayre, the heart, apparently, could hold infinite amounts of tolerance [Read More…]
Mothers and Daughters: Predictably Cheesy
A straight male director might not be the best choice for the person to helm a film about the nature of relationships between mothers and [Read More…]
Christina Ricci Embodies the Living Dead in After.Life
Warsaw-born Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo made her directing and screenwriting debut with After.Life in 2009, an unsettling metaphor for how the majority of us walk around living [Read More…]
Zelda Fitzgerald Finally Gets Some Recognition With Christina Ricci On Her Side
For the longest time, Zelda Fitzgerald lived in the shadows of her husband, with few people ever even aware that she wrote a novel of [Read More…]
