Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Op-eds

Scarlett Johansson: The Bombshell of Body Dysmorphia

Scarlett Johansson has always been an unreliable narrator of sexuality and femininity in its primitive form. The blonde bombshell of the '50s and '60s reincarnated, her breasts and her voluptuous figure, her...

From Poverty Row To Big Player: The First Years Of Columbia Pictures

2024 marks the centennial of Columbia Pictures, the studio behind the Spider-Man franchise, Ghostbusters, The Bridge On The River Kwai, On The Waterfront, The Social Network, and Taxi Driver; among many other...

Criterion Releases: March 2024

It is March Madness and Criterion has six new releases on the horizon. One of them, the 1941 drama The Devil And Daniel Webster, is a re-release, but with a new title....

Superficial Enjoyment of ‘Zone 414’

Tycoon Marlon Viedt (Travis Fimmel) sends former detective turned freelance investigator David Carmichael (Guy Pearce) into Zone 414 – Veidt's safe zone for interacting with his lifelike robots in all manner of...

‘Chances Are’ Remains Charming

After a flirtatious meeting with Miranda Jeffries (Mary Stuart Masterson) at Yale, Alex Finch (Robert Downey Jr.) remembers his past life as her late father, Louie Jeffries (Christopher McDonald). Alex renews his...

The Wages Of Fear: A Nitro-Filled Retrospective

This should have been written last year to mark seventy years since its release, but even then, rewatching this all-time classic thriller stands out highly as one of the best films of...

The Story of the Two Wolves: How Coppola and Luhrmann Imagined Two Different Elvises

I hesitated for so long before writing this essay, for one, because comparing two performances is a bizarre thing to do, especially without bias. It’s not like science where people can measure...

Odd and Unusual Sharon Stone Films

From early horror and obscure thrillers to Razzie worthy bads and maligned comedy, these peculiar films peppering Sharon Stone's repertoire remain surprisingly entertaining viewing despite their flaws – or maybe because of...

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