Tag: Hollywood
The Bisection of Britney’s Personality As Likened to the Norman Bates Defense Mechanism
As everyone continues to cry #FreeBritney on her thirty-ninth birthday, wondering how much agency this woman approaching forty really has, it bears noting that Britney [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #11: The Decision to Remake Valley Girl
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it affects. [Read More…]
Scream 3 Might Just Be More Eerie Than All the Rest For Its Meta Harvey Weinstein Factor
With Kevin Williamson’s indelible imprint on Scream and Scream 2, there was no denying that the script for the third installment would be doomed without [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
They Stoop to Pander: Idiocracy Continues with Oscars Doing Most Popular Movie
The Academy has made a few missteps in a new era defined by seeking to disseminate some of the overall “sameness” (that means whiteness) of [Read More…]
Film School Rejects Can Still Take Comfort in The Big Picture
As the first film to be both written and directed by Christopher Guest (with National Lampoon Lemmings and This Is Spinal Tap being the first [Read More…]
Someone Tell “Lifestyle” Magazines It’s 2018 and You Don’t Need to Paint the Woman as the Broken-Hearted One Post-Breakup
Jennifer Aniston, one of the tabloid favorites when it comes to writing about celebrity breakups, has, once again, served as the perfect person to provide [Read More…]
Of Course James Toback is a Sexual Predator. Have You Not Seen His Movie Titles, General Aesthetic?
They say stereotyping is wrong. That judging a book by its cover is something we should never do. And yet, when it comes to profiling [Read More…]
