The Unapologetically Camp, Sapphic Spy Film: D.E.B.S.
Through the years, Hollywood has produced an infinite amount of espionage films. These films have essentially all been the same:…
Essays
Possessed by Puberty: Dissecting the Monstrous Feminine
“In order to enter the symbolic order, the subject must reject or repress all forms of behaviour, speech and modes…
The Many Faces of the Archaic Mother: Dissecting the Monstrous Feminine
“The unacceptable, monstrous aspect of woman is represented in two ways: Mother as an omnipresent archaic force linked to death…
Transcending the Runway: Saint Laurent Productions and Rodarte’s ‘Woodshock’
In an age where artistic boundaries are fluid, luxury fashion designers transcend the runways and haute couture shows to venture…
Sam Raimi and Collaboration in Independent Film
Sam Raimi over his career has gone from independent horror creative to studio filmmaker. But as the director has bounced…
‘The Holdovers’ (2023): Alexander Payne’s Unlikely Successor to ‘Dead Poets Society’
“O Captain! My Captain.” The iconic Walt Whitman quote frequently repeated throughout Peter Weir’s boyhood classic, “Dead Poets Society” (1989),…
Godzilla, Or How to Make a Monster Popular
The fearsome Godzilla continues to strike terror 69 years after its debut. The original film helped launch a genre of…
On the Ice: The Sundance Movie I Regret Walking Out Of
In middle school, I walked out of a film at the 2011 Sundance festival. My stepmother and I went to see On the Ice (2011), a film by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean that focuses on teenagers living in Barrow, Alaska (later renamed Utqiagvik in 2016). She invited me along because I lived in Alaska for most of the year, admittedly a bit further south than where the story takes place. Both of us entered the festival eager to see if On the Ice represented life in the “last frontier.” However, after about thirty minutes, the movie took a dark and violent turn. Read More >>
“Clean” is a modern homage to “Taxi Driver”.
At a first glance, the “Clean” trailer was everything you could want from an independent action film. Adrien Brody stars…