Tag: Greta Gerwig
From “Barbie’s Perspective,” Billie Eilish Asks the Question Even the “Dumbest Blonde” Must: “What Was I Made For?”
Although there might have been a time when Billie Eilish was considered the “anti-Barbie,” her blonde, “clean” aesthetic in the wake of Happier Than Ever [Read More…]
Dua Lipa Gives Barbie Her “Bespoke” Song Via “Dance the Night”
As the Summer of Barbie kicks into high gear, it’s only right that the film should be matched by an indelible soundtrack (perhaps not since [Read More…]
Why the Tagline for Barbie Is So Resonant
Of all the things about the latest round of the Barbie marketing blitzkrieg, perhaps the most standout element to the (feminine) masses was the tagline [Read More…]
Better to Have a Constant Sense of Dread Than Be Dead (Or Is It?): Noah Baumbach Revives White Noise at a Moment We Need to be Reminded of Our Inherent Doom
A long-held fear is being dredged up in the artistic output of late. The one that Woody Allen made an entire career out of before [Read More…]
Millennial Horror Show: Search Party Season 3
At one point early on in the third season of Search Party, District Attorney Polly Danziger (Michaela Watkins) tells her assistant prosecutor, “Everything I hate [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Lina Wertmüller At Last Given Some Overdue Credit With Honorary Oscar at Governors Awards
While an Oscar appears to become increasingly meaningless with each passing year, the sentiment behind it was not lost on veteran Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller [Read More…]
To Rome With Love’s Use of the Fellini Blueprint
As one of the most maligned of Woody Allen’s past ten years of back to back films (a feat he has sustained since he began [Read More…]
Wes Anderson Has Always Been Secretly Appealing to Our Animal Instincts, But Ironically Less So in Isle of Dogs
The only other stop-motion animated film Wes Anderson has ever brought into the world was 2009’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s book of the [Read More…]
Tower Closed Anew: Russ Solomon Dies While Watching the Oscars
Even prior to The Beatles providing hard evidence to stodgy adults that there was value in the music industry–the kind of value they could actually [Read More…]
