Tag: COVID-19
In Fatal Attraction Fashion, Contagion Undercuttingly Positions Infidelity/Hoedom As the Cause of Society’s Woes
The beginning of Steven Soderbergh’s now iconic film, Contagion, wastes no time in making a point about how bad girls who do bad things (and [Read More…]
Contagion’s Unemotional Approach To Presenting A Novel Virus’ Creation and Chaos
Back in January, when coronavirus was nothing more than “China’s problem” to most Americans, Contagion, as a “relevant revisit,” started to rise up the ranks [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]
Public Anger Turns “Fever”-ish When Dua Lipa and Angèle Are Spotted Having A Good Time Through the Small Hours of the London Night
There is a timely sense of rage bubbling to the surface at every turn in Dua Lipa’s latest video co-starring Angèle, who collaborated with her [Read More…]
North’s Friesian Horses Redux
While seven years old isn’t exactly a milestone for any child, when you’re North West, it apparently warrants your very own Friesian horse. This is [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
The Rental: A Tailored-to-the-Moment Cautionary Tale About Not Staying Anywhere Outside of Your Own Home
It is said that all human interaction should be built upon trust, but one wonders of late if perhaps the millennial generation has taken that [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s “Stuck With U” Basically Says “Surrender Dorothy” With Regard to Settling For the One You’re With
Amid the ever-growing trend of the home video look taking hold of the content in pop culture that we have no choice but to watch [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #10: Celebs Shilling Masks
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. As celebrities have [Read More…]
