The Grand Budapest Hotel — Celebrity and Authorship
Hotels are a fascinating dichotomy. In their erection, they symbolize a cohesive permanence, while each of their subdivided quarters represents separation and temporality – momentary…
Dustin Freeley
Breaking Amish — Shattering the Bottom of the Barrel
In 2012, MTV’s Buckwild founded a genre that could one day be referred to as “degenerate porn,” wherein an isolated group of nine teenagers from…
Adore — Wrong or Uncomfortable
Adore is, at its core, inconceivably silly. Despite characteristically strong performances by Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, the film is on the border of pushing…
Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Temporality and Distance
Despite the change in directors, Hunger Games: Catching Fire maintains a similar coolness and eeriness imparted by the first. While the first installment created a…
Coraline — Missing Childhood
Based on the Neil Gaiman’s novel, the film Coraline is a cynical look at the desires of children stifled by external constraints placed on parents….
Does it Hold Up? — Retro Review: Clueless
In recent days, I have found nothing more frightening than the eerie uncanniness and timelessness of Clueless. The Amy Heckerling film from 1995 that stars…
An Interview with Alicia Silverstone
To anyone coming of age in the 1990s, Alicia Silverstone will always be best remembered for her turn as Cher is Amy Heckerling’s eerily timeless…
Best Picture Haiku — 2013 Edition
Nebraska Booze-addled father Determined to keep walking Follows many people. Gravity White-knuckle journey. Catapulted forever Home so far removed. 12 Years a Slave…
Does is Still Hold Up? — Retro Review: Airplane!
Surely, there are moments in Airplane! (1980) that would confuse anyone not alive in the 1980’s. Today of course, smoking is prohibited on planes –…
The Croods — The Power of Fear and the Birth of Knowledge
The Croods explores the impeding power of fear and the darkest parts of evolution.