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The Flying-By-the-Seat-of-His-Pants Mr. Ripley
From the outset of Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal work, The Talented Mr. Ripley, it’s pretty clear why the title of the series [Read More…]
In Fatal Attraction Fashion, Contagion Undercuttingly Positions Infidelity/Hoedom As the Cause of Society’s Woes
The beginning of Steven Soderbergh’s now iconic film, Contagion, wastes no time in making a point about how bad girls who do bad things (and [Read More…]
Contagion’s Unemotional Approach To Presenting A Novel Virus’ Creation and Chaos
Back in January, when coronavirus was nothing more than “China’s problem” to most Americans, Contagion, as a “relevant revisit,” started to rise up the ranks [Read More…]
A Rainy Day in New York Offers A Wet Behind the Ears Perspective of the City
A crowd outside of the theater clamors to get into two sold out showings of Woody Allen’s latest movie. The herd of people extending down [Read More…]
If Selling Vacuity Is Wrong, Celeste Doesn’t Want to Be Right–And Neither Does the 21st Century: Vox Lux
Just before her career is about to skyrocket her into the realm of irrevocable fame that perhaps only a few pop stars with the rare [Read More…]
“A Rainy Day” Ahead For Woody Allen’s Film Future & Legacy
After all this time, the demise of Woody Allen feels as anticlimactic as any of his usual resigned endings. With so much buildup to an [Read More…]
Oscar Wilde: A Rather Unhappy Prince in The Happy Prince
For a man with a canon of work as scant and heavily reliant on epigrams as Oscar Wilde, there has been no shortage of examinations [Read More…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]
Pretty Woman’s Vivian Ward Blazed the Trail For Closer’s Jane Jones
In many respects, the archetype for the shifty, con artist prostitute was perfected (at least in the mainstream) by Julia Roberts’ rendering of Vivian Ward. [Read More…]
