Tag: Culled Culture
The Iconography of the “My Sharona” Scene in Reality Bites
Helen Childress‘ only movie to date remains the spokesperson (spokesfilm?) for a generation that is 1994’s Reality Bites. The many issues and concerns of that [Read More…]
Still Alice: Stilling the Tumultuous Waters of Alzheimer’s
It’s rare that a movie about a cause can toe the delicate line between raising awareness and being taken seriously without bordering on sheer triteness. Richard [Read More…]
People Places Things: A Coup for Jemaine Clement & James C. Strouse
Screenwriter James C. Strouse has made a name for himself with more dramatic films like Lonesome Jim and Grace Is Gone. Traces of his tragicomic [Read More…]
I Am Chris Farley Gets You Into The Skin of One of the Greatest Comics of All-Time
“We realize perfectly well that all the characters that we play are really subsets of ourselves. They’re just ourselves in slightly different moods, ourselves carrying [Read More…]
Nick Lachey: Jessica Simpson’s Least Favorite Mistake
On TV, it would appear that Nick Lachey was the one who had to suffer through and endure the often vacuous antics of Jessica Simpson. [Read More…]
Hermès Prostrates Itself Before Apple
What is the world coming to when Hermès, the pinnacle of high fashion and luxury, feels obliged to enter into a partnership with Apple, the most [Read More…]
Grace Jones Throws Shade/Calls Every Other Female in Music Shit–And Is Largely Right
If anyone in the music industry is allowed to throw shade, it’s Grace Jones. Unlike, say, Kim Gordon, who called out Lana Del Rey–“who doesn’t [Read More…]
Something Rings False About True Story
With a movie title like True Story, it’s no surprise that, yes, it’s based on a true story–incidentally, a book based on a true story. [Read More…]
Selena Gomez’s “Good For You” Transports Us Back to the Early 20th Century
Just as Britney Spears’ “Born to Make You Happy” serves as an anthem for women of the 1950s, now Selena Gomez’s “Good For You” is [Read More…]
Far From The Madding Crowd: A Faithful Adaptation That’s Still All Its Own
In general, movie adaptations–especially ones that have already been done before–rarely offer anything new to enliven or enrich the original literature on which they are [Read More…]
