Tag: Ryan Gosling
The Fall Guy Blows Up Tom Cruise’s Braggadocio and Quentin Tarantino’s Tributes to Stuntmen
As far as movies that acknowledge the importance of stuntmen (because no one thinks of this as a profession for stuntwomen, clearly), the only one [Read More…]
The Irony of “I’m Just Ken” Grafting “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” at the 2024 Oscars
There is a long tradition of women emulating Marilyn Monroe’s famed performance of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In fact, [Read More…]
Not Justin Ken’ing Britney While She Was Having An Abortion
There is a very particular moment in Britney Spears’ revelatory The Woman In Me, during which she at last has the courage to rehash having [Read More…]
Stop Calling Barbie “Escapist Fun”
For the most part, Barbie has held fast to its reputation as an old school work of art in the (im)pure studio system sense of [Read More…]
Barbie: The Album Might Cut It In Barbie Land, But Not in the Real World
With a movie as instantaneously revered as Barbie, it’s only natural to expect an accompanying soundtrack that might do it justice. And sure, the Barbie [Read More…]
In Barbie, As In Life, Patriarchy Is the Insidious Force Turning Women’s Lives Upside Down
It’s among the few mononyms that invoke an immediate visceral reaction—whether reverent or contemptuous—within people. God. Madonna. Barbie. And, like the aforementioned Italian-American pop star, [Read More…]
Why the Tagline for Barbie Is So Resonant
Of all the things about the latest round of the Barbie marketing blitzkrieg, perhaps the most standout element to the (feminine) masses was the tagline [Read More…]
Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook
For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]
A Certain Foreshadowing Re: Britney Spears Auditioning for the Part of a Woman Who Ends Up Developing Dementia
Despite the information being well-trodden at this juncture, we all know by now that everything old can be made new again. So it is that [Read More…]
Song to Song (Person to Person)
By now, anyone willing to take whatever filmic journey Terrence Malick has in store for them is pretty committed. And those that genuinely value his [Read More…]
