His lapsed Catholicism inspires a brief internal thumb-war between moral duty and theological loyalty and really makes you reflect on how, if you think about it, you may have never met a Catholic who isn’t lapsed.
Read MoreThe Mechanics and Matter of Mad Max: Fury Road
Not once did teachers warn us about forming parasitic relationships with our fake friends and gas-lighting sweethearts. Not once did we think of ourselves as wild, living organisms. Note how I say “living” instead of existing. There is a difference.
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Aidan Jeans pokes fun at the other Wall Street film we didn't need.
Read MoreOn Room, Trauma and the Mess of Love
Room is the horror movie of parental responsibility which forces you to watch both mother and son pay the mental, emotional and physical cost of having been son and mother to each other.
Read MorePost Modern Bummer : Anomalisa !
Aidan Jeans pokes fun at Charlie Kauffman's oscar nominated animated feature about a self-help author who perceives everyone, including his wife and child, as having the same face. That is until he meets Lisa.
Read MoreSelect Memories from Moments in Carol
For prom, I bought us pearl earrings for $5 from an elderly vendor in Chinatown. I told him how neither of us had ever owned anything pearl before. He knew they were fake, and so did I, and so did you, but it didn’t matter.
Read MoreJoy and the Noxious Male Genius
She is creative, but pragmatic first, her genius is hands on and hard-won. Joy Mangano espouses the pleasure of utility, ingenuity and practicality but the film itself is stuffed with arguably useless flourishes, it is rambling instead of efficient, clunky instead of lightweight. The Miracle Mop it is not.
Read MoreFrom a Review of The Martian
It’s inconceivable that the American public would lose Matt’s matter to a planet that resists colonization. Matt returned can be forgotten but Matt left on Mars would be a ghost fucking up NASA's funding for all eternity and reminding Americans of their embarrassing interplanetary defeat. Animated or not, we want to keep our bodies within our borders.
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