Tag: Culled Culture
Madonna and the Holograms: A Commentary on the Dilemma of Performance in the 21st Century
Of all the places to dabble with the concept of “augmented” reality (as though it’s not already augmented enough), Madonna–and her holograms–likely knew that Las [Read More…]
Do You Respect Mass Communication So Much You Want to Fuck It?: Rammstein Does With “Radio”
If there’s anyone who knows something about growing up in the East/West divide of Berlin in the Cold War days it is Till Lindemann of [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Frenchifies “Cute But Psycho But Cute” For “ME!” and It’s Not Mignon
Like “former” nemesis before her, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift’s latest “effort” brings to mind the image of Perry in the pastel-saturated, filled with “irony” video [Read More…]
FEAR & No Loathing in the Second Half of MARINA’s Double Album
Despite the fact that MARINA is a firm believer in the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross philosophy theory that, “There are only two emotions: love and fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, [Read More…]
Quaalude Anyone? 70s Glam Punctuates Mark Ronson & Lykke Li’s “Late Night Feelings” Video
JP Chartrand, who most notably directed the video for Katy Perry’s 2017 summer anthem, “Bon Appétit,” combines his hyper-surreal style with the perfect decade to [Read More…]
Poison Ivy Is An Understated Class Warfare Movie Posing As Another “Erotic Thriller” of the Early 90s
In a land that now seems very far away to us all–90s L.A.–it was still possible for a girl to pull herself up by her [Read More…]
Reassessing Mulholland Drive in the Wake of Its Place As the Best Film of the 21st Century
The further time moves along to give viewers more space and distance from the haunting mind fuck that was and is Mulholland Drive, the more [Read More…]
He’s Probably at The Probe: American Gigolo
Naturally, a movie called American Gigolo would ultimately be billed as a love story in the 80s. For what could be more romantic at that [Read More…]
The Most Hoppin’ Movies for Easter
While not quite as mainstream and easily wieldable for profit as that other bastion of Christianity, Christmas, Easter has its fair share of “festive” movies [Read More…]
Rabbits and Reanimation: The Strange Coalescing of the Sensual and the Divine on Easter
While Easter is considered, even still, by Christians and the last remaining Catholics, one of the most holy and hallowed religious celebrations of the year [Read More…]
