Tag: Elizabeth Banks
The Beanie Bubble Reminds That The Ultimate Childhood Toy for Millennials Was Also the Ultimate Representation of What It Is to Be Millennial
Perhaps what strikes one the most about The Beanie Bubble isn’t pulling back the curtain behind the “Wizard of Beanie Babies,” Ty Warner, and finding [Read More…]
Bears Just Wanna Have Fun, Or: A Tragedy Becomes A Comedy in Cocaine Bear
Elizabeth Banks noted that it might be the movie that could end her career. In contrast, the antics of the eponymous bear in Cocaine Bear [Read More…]
Tied Together Sonically By Ariana Grande, “Don’t Call Me Angel” Builds Somewhat More Hostilely on the Themes Destiny’s Child Established With “Independent Women Pt. 1”
Another decade, another remake. Charlie’s Angels was doomed to be next, of course, and even famously lampooned film remakes via LL Cool J on a [Read More…]
The Camp Obsession That Wouldn’t Die: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
After Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp premiered on Netflix on July 31, 2015, one perhaps wrongly assumed this would be the [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…]
Magic Mike XXL: XXtra Unnecessary
When considering the near perfection of 2012’s Magic Mike (one of the last films Steven Soderbergh would direct), it should be no surprise that the studio, [Read More…]
Guy Ritchie’s Swept Away Was Possibly the Best Movie of 2002
Swept Away, the 2002 remake of Lina Wertmüller’s Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (you can see why they changed the name), was universally acknowledged as [Read More…]
