Tag: Culled Culture
Better to Have a Constant Sense of Dread Than Be Dead (Or Is It?): Noah Baumbach Revives White Noise at a Moment We Need to be Reminded of Our Inherent Doom
A long-held fear is being dredged up in the artistic output of late. The one that Woody Allen made an entire career out of before [Read More…]
So Daniel Craig (De Facto Hugh Grant) Can Play Gay to Public Delight But No One Else Can?
Among the most talked-about “moments” from Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, the latest edition to the Knives Out “saga,” isn’t so much a moment as a [Read More…]
The Emperor Has No Brain: Glass Onion Takes Shots at the Likes of Elon Musk, “Ye” and Even George W. Bush
Although it’s only been three years since the release of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, it feels like almost an entire lifetime has passed since that [Read More…]
Real Talk: Abby Should Have Ended Up With Riley in Happiest Season
As far as “instant classic” Christmas movies go, the only one to really make a mark in recent years has been Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season [Read More…]
The Rich Eat: The Menu
At the crux of every basic class divide is food. It is the most essential unit of life, and yet, it took little time at [Read More…]
Emily in Paris Season 3 Aims to Solidify Itself As the McDonald’s Version Sex and the City—While Promoting McDonald’s
It seems all too on the nose that the first episode of Emily in Paris’ third season would immediately bring McDonald’s into the formulaic equation. [Read More…]
Harry & Meghan: A Love Story Bogged Down by Family, Media and Racism
In the fifth episode of Harry & Meghan, the lyrics to Nina Simone’s “Do What You Gotta Do” play (which Kanye “Ye” West unfortunately repurposed [Read More…]
Home Alone 2: New York’s Nothing But Fun on Borrowed Dough… Until It Runs Out
Among the many “reassessments” of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, complete with its implausible representation of realistic geographic proximity, one that hasn’t really [Read More…]
Hungry Love: Bones and All
Despite the alleged increasing “openness” of society to those who are “different,” there remains a paucity of films about cannibals. And even literary tales of [Read More…]
Caroline Polachek Channels Circe on “Welcome to My Island”
On the heels of the “Sunset” video, Caroline Polachek continues to intensify the anticipation of her fourth solo record, Desire, I Want to Turn Into [Read More…]
