Tag: Martin Freeman
Love Actually Is All About the Desperation Invoked By Loneliness
In the years since Love Actually was released, it’s been analyzed in hundreds of different ways. Not least of which is the shudder-inducing, super creepy [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…]
Shaun of the Dead: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, It’s Too Close to Home & It’s Too Near the Bone
Remember what a levity-laden time 2004 really was? Sure, there was the usual contempt for Republicans and their latest “faux cause” (paying Afghanistan back for [Read More…]
Black Panther: A Polemic That Can At Last Creep Into More Closed Minds
As one of the most momentous films released since, well, let’s face it, Gone With the Wind, Black Panther has an infinite amount of pressure to stand up [Read More…]
Tina Fey’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Performance Ultimately Underrated For Its Liz Lemonness
When Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was first released in book form as The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan back in 2011, Chicago Tribune journalist [Read More…]
