Tag: Saoirse Ronan
Mike Mills, Saoirse Ronan and Talking Heads Join Forces to Remind It’s the “Groundhog Day Effect” That Makes You Feel Like a “Psycho Killer”
Almost forty-eight years ago, in December of 1977, the Talking Heads released “Psycho Killer,” their first charting hit (and yes, coming in at number ninety-two [Read More…]
Woman of the Hour and Saoirse Ronan on The Graham Norton Show: Two Key Moments in “The Culture” Right Now That Tell a Larger Story
In a now viral moment on The Graham Norton Show that, to Saoirse Ronan, came as a complete surprise, the actress casually “quips” (while being [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Daisy’s Internal Monologue in How I Live Now As Your Own
While not necessarily a book that screams, “Ripe for adaptation,” Meg Rosoff’s 2004 novel, How I Live Now, was perhaps a foretelling of just how [Read More…]
Lady Bird Will Be Even More Sacramentan in Australia
Sacramentans have that unique, angst-ridden edge about them that thrived quite nicely in the type of mainstream pop culture that supported the tonal vibes of [Read More…]
Circe & Psychology: The Feminist Undertones of Molly’s Game
While the criticism levied specifically at Jessica Chastain–as opposed to the other white actresses she appeared on the tone deaf cover of The Los Angles [Read More…]
Lady Bird As Frances Ha Origin Story
Sacramento doesn’t often grace the frames of well-financed, well-acted films (there’s been the way under the radar Other People with Molly Shannon as the only [Read More…]
Taking Cues From Her Sacramento Forebears, Didion and Ringwald, Greta Gerwig Adds to the Parsimonious List of Abashed Love Letters to the City
As Greta Gerwig’s directorial and solo writing debut, it’s only right that she should go for the most autobiographical subject possible: the California capital city [Read More…]
Loving Vincent (Is Easy Through the Lens of His Art)
The tortured life of Vincent Van Gogh has long been discussed, examined and held up as a beacon of the ultimate definition of what it [Read More…]
The Beauty of “Brooklyn”
To be an immigrant in 50s-era Brooklyn was hardly for the faint of heart. The passage to America alone, followed by the harsh appraisal at [Read More…]
