‘MaXXXine’ Is Punch-Drunk on Pastiche

July 5, 2024 · Pop Culture

Give Ti West this: He’s completed the quickest trilogy in contemporary horror movie history. Barely two years after X introduced us to its gore-soaked version of the MCU—that’d…

Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)” Video: A Postmodernist’s Wet Dream

March 9, 2024 · Pop Culture

It’s safe to say that, of all the pop stars working today (apart from, of course, Madonna), Ariana Grande is the one most blatantly enamored of postmodernism—wherein no…