Tag: Los Angeles
The Simple Life as Blueprint for Borat, Ire for Rich White Girls
The Simple Life was not exactly lauded critically in its time. It had a larger viewership at the outset, sure, with thirteen million viewers tuning [Read More…]
The Disposability of Relationships in Faces
John Cassavetes has always been a master at capturing the complexities of long-term monogamy. From his early work that preceded Faces, including Too Late Blues, [Read More…]
The Neon Demon: Pretty People With Ugly Problems (Including Cannibalism)
Vanity may not be one of the seven deadly sins, but perhaps it ought to be based on Nicholas Winding Refn’s twelfth feature (yes, he [Read More…]
The Nice Guys: Like If Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Was Set in the 1970s
When it comes to Shane Black, the singular style of his detective movies has only grown in confidence and wit with each new screenplay he [Read More…]
Tangerine: A New Christmas Movie Classic
Apart from being one of the best movies made in and about L.A., Sean S. Baker’s (perhaps still best known for his Greg the Bunny [Read More…]
The Sibling Neuroses of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
“You mean, all this time, we could’ve been friends?” As Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? draws to a close on the beach of [Read More…]
If You Were Justin Timberlake Being Sold on NYC by Mila Kunis in Friends With Benefits
Perhaps the most vexing element about 2011’s Friends With Benefits isn’t that another similarly premised film, No Strings Attached, came out the same year or [Read More…]
Take A Honeymoon With Lana Del Rey
The countdown to the release of Honeymoon has been building for some time now, with the release of the video for “High By the Beach” [Read More…]
Nuns Against Katy Perry
When you’re Katy Perry, there’s a general tendency for a lot of people to be against you. Like her occasional mentor, Madonna, Perry has the [Read More…]
Looking Back at the Golden-Hearted Whore of Pretty Woman 25 Years Later
When Pretty Woman first came out, the concept behind the story was not technically shocking. Films about prostitutes had already been done to death by [Read More…]
