Tag: Emily Blunt
The Pluribus Undertones of Disclosure Day—Except the Latter Doesn’t Quite Land the Flying Saucer Home
Although, when it comes to his quartet of “alien films”—now rounded out by Disclosure Day—Steven Spielberg might be forever associated with E.T., some people (read: [Read More…]
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Isn’t a Love Letter to/Elegy for Print Media So Much as an Insidious Acceptance of How Capitalism “Works”
Although The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been largely praised by critics (with Time going so far as to call it “better than the original”), [Read More…]
The Fall Guy Blows Up Tom Cruise’s Braggadocio and Quentin Tarantino’s Tributes to Stuntmen
As far as movies that acknowledge the importance of stuntmen (because no one thinks of this as a profession for stuntwomen, clearly), the only one [Read More…]
Mary Poppins: Child Gaslighter/Royal Doulton Whore
While Emily Blunt has stated time and again that Mary Poppins Returns is more “homage” to the original than anything else, it has to be [Read More…]
The Girl On the Train: A Tame Female Vengeance Story
As Hillary Clinton gets ever closer to winning the presidency, it’s only natural that the trend in the female vengeance genre would continue to prosper. [Read More…]
Sicario: The Real Oldest Profession
In case you didn’t get the grand memo of the twenty-first century, the moral high ground won’t get you very high up the hill of [Read More…]
