Tag: Home Alone
In the Present, Kate McCallister Would Be Called a “Karen” Rather Than “Hyper”
While the fan focus of Home Alone tends to be on Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) or his antagonists, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin’s mom, [Read More…]
A New Key Takeaway From Home Alone: Busybodies Ruin Lives
As the obsession with Home Alone only grows stronger with each passing year, it’s been studied almost like a hallowed text. And technically, it is, [Read More…]
Dogman Gives Caleb Landry Jones His Joker (And Catwoman) Role
With 2023 marking the year of Luc Besson being legally cleared of all sexual misconduct charges brought against him by Sand Van Roy, perhaps it’s [Read More…]
Home Alone 2: New York’s Nothing But Fun on Borrowed Dough… Until It Runs Out
Among the many “reassessments” of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, complete with its implausible representation of realistic geographic proximity, one that hasn’t really [Read More…]
No Small Parts, Only Small Asses: Leigh Zimmerman as “Fashion Model” in Home Alone 2
In 1992, the world was a much different place. So, too, was New York, which so loves to bill itself as its own world (if [Read More…]
Thinkin’ Bout How Harry and Marv Would Be Out of “Business” During the Age of the Lockdown
We already knew the 90s were a Golden Age in so many ways. A period not just when casual comfort was deemed the height of [Read More…]
Google Assistant Ad With Macaulay Culkin Proves All Movie Plots Should Just Be Set in the Past Now
It only took three years since the first episode of Jack Dishel’s :DRYVRS for Macaulay Culkin to once more reboot another sendup of his most [Read More…]
The Disaster Artist: Money Is the Answer to (Vague Artistic) Success
As far as directors/actors/writers/producers go, perhaps the only person in the history of filmmaking ever to be as lambasted as Tommy Wiseau is Ed Wood–and [Read More…]
Macaulay Culkin Takes Home Alone to a Dark Place in Web Series :DRYVRS
We’ve all been concerned about Macaulay Culkin for a long time now (maybe beginning around the moment he got married to Broadway actress Rachel Miner [Read More…]
Macaulay Culkin’s Bright Fire and Slow Burn
Perhaps no one can know the true meaning of what it’s like to be a child star and then grow into a less than lovable [Read More…]
