Tag: Culled Culture
John Lennon: 35 Years After His Death
With each passing year, it still seems incredible that John Lennon is no longer with us. His unwavering message of peace and a strong belief [Read More…]
O Barcelona
Before there was Woody Allen’s 2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona, there was Whit Stillman’s far rawer, less warm and fuzzy Barcelona, released in 1994. Set in [Read More…]
Saint West Is Probably the Antichrist
It’s one thing to name your Mexican, Spanish or South American baby Jesus, it’s quite another to name your black/Armenian Los Angeles-born child Saint. In yet [Read More…]
Sleigh Bells: True “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty”
On the heels of the single, “That Did It” featuring Tink, Sleigh Bells is now offering us “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty,” an upbeat ditty that [Read More…]
The Most Glamorous Trans Woman: Holly Woodlawn
When you’re a Warhol superstar, no one expects you to live very long. Holly Woodlawn a.k.a. Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl was a rare exception [Read More…]
The Wet Hot American Summer Saga
If someone had told USA Films, the distributor of Wet Hot American Summer, that the movie would redeem itself tenfold and go on to have [Read More…]
Please Don’t Bother Making the Life-Size Sequel Without Lindsay Lohan
Life-Size was that rare Disney movie that actually attempted to forewarn of a dystopic future in which children would cease to use their imaginations as [Read More…]
Nightingale Combines Elements of Psycho & He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
David Oyelowo’s steadily progressing film career may not have the cachet it currently does without his firm background in theater. As one of the first [Read More…]
Finally, A New Classic Christmas Song From Loose Tapestries a.k.a. Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno
Every year, we are subjected to the same tired Christmas songs from Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Destiny’s Child, NSYNC and, sometimes, Bing Crosby. But at [Read More…]
A Very Murray Christmas is Murrayaculously Not That Great
Bill Murray’s latter career renaissance has been going on for some time now. Who can even pinpoint when it really started? Perhaps with 2003’s Sofia [Read More…]