Tag: Los Angeles
Emily the Criminal Underscores the Cycle of Poverty in All Its Unavoidability As a Law-Abiding Sap
While everyone is still focused on Aubrey Plaza’s performance as Harper Spiller in The White Lotus, it bears reminding the masses of another Plaza performance [Read More…]
The American Dream Requires the Suppression of All Reality–And So Does A Show About Angelyne
“The past is another country.” That’s certainly something Angelyne believes about Renee Goldberg, her Semitic self from long ago. In the eponymous show starring Emmy [Read More…]
Recapturing a Time and Place: The Vivid 90s-Era Zeitgeist Shifts in Pam and Tommy
Because every story from the (recent) past is rife for being dredged up again for the sake of a #MeToo-inspired slant, perhaps the tale of [Read More…]
Angelyne 4 Governor of California: A Mirror of the State’s Psychology
California provides fodder for the world, there’s no denying it. Sometimes, that fodder is aspirational, and sometimes that fodder serves only to invoke more mockery [Read More…]
Celebrity Sympathy Is The New Black
It wouldn’t be right to say celebrity “empathy” is the new black, for that would entail “normals” could actually put themselves in the (Louboutin) shoes [Read More…]
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
There Are Many Issues With Fatale—A Fatal Attraction Rip-off—But Making L.A. Look Fly Is Not One of Them
Lately, it seems as though directors are so entranced with the idea of making an “L.A. movie,” that they don’t bother too much with worrying [Read More…]
Wrath of Toxic Masculinity: Guy Ritchie’s Latest Displays A Comical Disregard for the Present
Maybe it was only a matter of time before Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2004 movie, Le Convoyeur, was bound to be remade. Called Cash Truck en anglais [Read More…]
Chadwick Boseman As an NFT Feels Decidedly Black Mirror
Whatever NFTs really are—for no one actually knows their purpose no matter how intricately the reason for them is described—the look of the one created [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #36: (Celebrities) Letting the ArcLight Close
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 [Read More…]
