As Xan Brooks of The Guardian pointed out in an interview with Darren Aronofsky, his latest film, Caught Stealing, “could almost be his parallel-universe first movie, given that it’s set in…
Read more Caught Stealing With a Hand in Pi: Darren Aronofsky’s Expertise in 1998In a perfect world, remakes and reboots wouldn’t need to exist at all. Or if they did, the final product would be the result of truly careful, measured…
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Read more Death Becomes Her: The Ultimate Female Aging CommentaryBeing that the queer film canon remains shockingly scant after all this time, it goes without saying that the even more hyper-specific genre of satirical queer film is…
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Read more Doja Cat’s “Demons” Video Is the Scariest Thing Christina Ricci Has Ever Starred InAs the latest in an increasingly long line (no nightclub pun intended) of songs that have seen fit to extract 90s dance hits for a twenty-first century “update”…
Read more David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray’s “Baby Don’t Hurt Me” Pays More Homage to A Night at the Roxbury Than HaddawayFor some reason, Dark City remains little revered or appreciated not only as a standalone film, but as something of the unwitting source material for The Matrix. While…
Read more Dark City: The Matrix’s Underappreciated PrecursorAmong the many “reassessments” of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, complete with its implausible representation of realistic geographic proximity, one that hasn’t really been called out…
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Read more Despite Being A Satire, Drop Dead Gorgeous Accurately Mirrored Kirstie Alley’s PoliticsAmong Bush’s often underrated oeuvre is a song from their 1996 album, Razorblade Suitcase. Although “Swallowed” was its lead single—garnering the most attention—“Mouth” would later gain traction after…
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