I know this take isn’t going to popular (just call me Elphaba) but it genuinely kinda bums me out that this is probably going to be praised as one of the great modern movie musicals by most people. 
It’s not that Wicked is so bad, it’s just that the contents, specifically the glaring flaws, don’t seem to matter much to people as much as the shiny veneer. Much like Galinda preaches in her ode to popularity, world leaders & great communicators…

One of the things I struggle with most in life is the idea of being truly known. I desperately want to be accepted for the real me but it’s easier to keep your loved ones at a distance because then, your transgressions and theirs can be written off as misunderstandings and not deeply hurtful slights. It’s easier to love and be loved if you’re only engaging on the surface level. A Real Pain, aptly named, engages with the pain of…

Lisa Frankenstein is for all the girls who grew up with trauma and decided to make it their entire personality for a while. 

This is the kind of zany, balls to the wall, absurdist horror comedy that we almost never see anymore. It captures the nostalgic charm of 80s camp classics like the Burbs and similarly never feels the need to over explain itself. It’s just a fun, spooky romp and that’s all it needs to be. 

Kathryn Newton is…

Feels definitively like the most artistically bankrupt, cynical & clueless movie I’ve ever seen. What’s worse is that every single interview seems to be trying to sell this as a “feminist story”. To be explicitly clear, there’s nothing remotely feminist to be found here. This film is such an egregious example of the way capitalism destroys art and trying to tack a feminist narrative on to sell more tickets is gross. If anything the characterization of Cassie specifically, but all the…

A film that exhibits the cruel, random, brutality of life, and the beautiful strength of human spirit in equal parts. So many films that explore this subject matter use war as a backdrop but that inherently moralizes it somehow and I think this is a vastly more interesting exploration of what it means to confront the chaotic nature of existence. It’s rare to see a film confront how truly powerless we are in the grand scheme of things. Death and…

It’s an incredibly daunting task, taking on a Nosferatu adaption in 2024. Murnau’s original 1922 unauthorized adaption of Dracula remains a technical and emotional masterpiece that every subsequent vampire film has been measured against and most simply don’t compare to. Like the best of the films that followed it, Egger’s Nosferatu is faithful in the ways that matter. It’s absolutely stunning and stylistically distinct. It’s horrifying and romantic and has a cloying, sinister eroticism that pushes off the screen and slithers…

“When you think of sparkles you think of women’s autonomy” -Will Ferrel as Mattel CEO 

It’s hard to overstate the significance of this film. It will be easy for many people to dismiss the value & longevity of something so widely & instantly beloved, but the truth is this is a masterpiece through & through. No detail was too small to go left unchecked. Every frame of this film could be hung in a museum. It’s obvious when Greta Gerwig feverishly explains how…