Tag: kiernan shipka
The Last Showgirl: Choosing A Life Committed to Art Is A Lonely and Defiant Road
There always comes a time in an artist’s life—whatever kind of artist they might be—when they reach “a certain age,” look around and suddenly realize [Read More…]
“Daddy! Mommy! Save Me From the Hell of Living!”: Longlegs
As the 90s seem to be seizing hold of the box office this summer (with Twister also reanimating as Twisters), it’s only right that someone [Read More…]
Totally Killer Shows How “Wild” the 80s Were, And How Much the Decade Fucked With the Heads of the Marginalized
As far as gimmicky horror movies go, there’s been no shortage since Scream reanimated the genre in 1996. And, in the decades since its initial [Read More…]
That Littering Scene in Mad Men Cuts to the Core of How Corporations Would End Up Pulling A Fast One on Their Consumers
Amid the many scenes from Mad Men that still linger in one’s mind, one of the oddest (at least to modern eyes) is the moment [Read More…]
When Betty Was Good
There are numerous mothers in pop culture history with a bad rap. Mrs. Bates, Mrs. White, Mrs. Vorhees. But Betty Draper (January Jones) might be [Read More…]
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Final Season: The Light Is Coming To Give Back Everything the Darkness Stole, Or Is the Dark Coming To Give Back Everything the Lightness Stole?
As Ariana Grande once said, “The light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole.” But this mantra is the precise antithesis of what [Read More…]
The Self-Quarantine of Betty Draper
As it’s already been noted, Americans experiencing the so-called hell of self-quarantine and the lockdown measures thereof (though it will never compare to the actions [Read More…]
A Carnival of Horrors Has Us Asking Which Witch is Which in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3
There are almost too many takeaways from the latest installment in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina saga to process. This despite the fact that it’s [Read More…]
Fashion’s New Fascist: Fendi, & Everything That’s Wrong With Their Kiernan Shipka-Starring Commercial
For most of the tourists that flock to Rome to throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Fendi now being, incidentally, the “owner” of it [Read More…]
Don’t Drag Women to Hell–Unless They Want to Be: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 2
If season one of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was about a “meek” little mortal coming to terms with her witchhood on her sixteenth birthday, season [Read More…]
