Tag: Culled Culture
Saltburn: Emerald Fennell’s 00s Era Homage to Brideshead Revisited, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female
Emerald Fennell’s Academy Award-winning debut, Promising Young Woman, had a promising start indeed at the beginning of 2020, before anyone knew that movie theaters worldwide [Read More…]
Love Actually Is All About the Desperation Invoked By Loneliness
In the years since Love Actually was released, it’s been analyzed in hundreds of different ways. Not least of which is the shudder-inducing, super creepy [Read More…]
“Last Christmas” Is “Secretly” About Being Outed By the Object of Your Affection
For many, “Last Christmas” is a straightforward (no ironic pun intended) ditty about unrequited love. Its jaunty, uptempo beat belying the misery exuded by the [Read More…]
“Last Christmas” Finally Gets Its Deserved UK Christmas Number 1 Spot
In what might be deemed a cruel irony, George Michael died on Christmas Day of something that prompted the Grinch himself to live a much [Read More…]
Thanksgiving: The Kickoff of Greed Season, Or: Eli Roth Gives America a Bitter Reflection of Itself in Ultimate Holiday Horror Movie
In 2021, a horror-comedy called Black Friday was released to little fanfare. For, while its premise was solid, its execution was decidedly wobbly. When Eli [Read More…]
Priscilla: The Marie Antoinette of the 1960s
It’s a story that becomes harder and harder to tell in the present epoch. That of Priscilla’s overt grooming by Elvis in order to eventually [Read More…]
Bleachers’ “Alma Mater” Video Is Not As Lynchian As It Wants To Be
As the incestuously intertwined relationship between Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey and the former’s new wife, Margaret Qualley, intensifies, perhaps it’s to be expected that [Read More…]
Quel Choc: Napoleon Falls Short
Of all the numerous and controversial French political figures, it is Napoleon Bonaparte who remains foremost in the minds of the French and non-French alike. [Read More…]
On the Grinch Finally Being Vindicated For His Misanthropy
In the past couple of years, some variation on a meme that goes, “The older I get, the more I understand why the Grinch wanted [Read More…]
Barbra As Ultimate Useless White Woman in Night of the Living Dead
As far as politically charged early innovators of the horror genre go, Night of the Living Dead takes the cake. Not only the template for [Read More…]
