“No Strings Attached” on Relationship Stuff
Adam: So, what’s up with not calling me back? Emma: I’m not good at this stuff. Adam: At what? Talking? Emma: Yeah, talking. Communicating. Relationship stuff. If we were in […]
Category Archives: Movies
Spring Breakers ‘Infiltrates the Mainstream’ by Testing Youth Culture
Note: I first wrote about this during the time when the film was released on April 1st, though, I re-worked and re-edited this article for submission to a magazine. Here […]
FMS85C Week 7: Is there Authenticity in Celebrity Stardom?
(via rcauilanfms85c.tumblr.com) The entertainment industry is something we all can’t hide from. All societies known have created, shared, and consumed the pleasurable products we call culture or the arts, as Larry […]
“The Great Gatsby” and the Love-lorn Spectacle of Life
(via rachelannc.tumblr.com/post/50122355916) Extremely appealing and exaggeratedly creative, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby takes a highly creative and new approach to the classic 20th-century novel, twisting and turning it in ways that […]
Am I the only one who kind of liked “Spring Breakers”?
(via rachelannc.tumblr.com) Anyone who knows me well enough wouldn’t be too surprised to find myself admitting why I may be one of the only people who can say she actually liked […]
“Zero Dark Thirty” Commemorates a History and a Presence
(via tumblr.com) It’s not often you come across such powerful, intelligent-driven CIA-operative historical thrillers that really plunges you into a curious decade-long manhunt of a past you yourself knew, but […]
On Jennifer Lawrence and her character Tiffany Maxwell in “Silver Linings Playbook”
DP/30 @ TIFF 2012: Silver Linings Playbook, actor Jennifer Lawrence As Jennifer Lawrence has quickly rose to Hollywood stardom ever since The Hunger Games came out in the past year, […]
“Ruby Sparks” as everyone’s fantasy-woman
Just like old days, I was able to splurge into my indie-film fandom the other night with my hipster older-brother watching quirky, character-driven indie tales of love. I bought him […]
“Silver Linings Playbook” really knows how to hit it Home for me
Silver Linings Playbook is probably the best movie, in my opinion, that I’ve seen this year thus far. It’s a movie that follows two kooky, problem-ridden and lost romantics on […]
“Great Expectations” (1998 film with Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow) Review
I almost forgot how much I looveee this movie… I was able to watch it again today and, even though this was made in 1998, this contemporary adaptation of the […]
“Up in the Air” Follows Real, Modern-day Life as a Business Façade
Trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/up-in-the-air/teaser-trailer I never had the opportunity to watch this film when it first came out–though I heard good things about it–but thanks to the good ole Black Friday deals, […]
Writing of “The Words” Confuses Fiction and Reality
One of the major themes that struck me in this movie is the posed question of whether one is living in fiction or reality. Although it left us with an […]
Why I love the entertainment industry
Disclaimer: I wrote this in an hour-long car ride last Saturday, and hope to start up a small research project regarding women and sex in the entertainment industry. This is […]
“The Runaways” (2010) on the Emergence of Women and Sex in Rock & Roll
The Runaways (2010) on the Emergence of Women and Sex in Rock & Roll I’ve been meaning to see this movie for the longest time, and although Dakota Fanning and […]
Traveling Back with “Safety Not Guaranteed”
“Big Machine”, Mark Duplass (Rendition), From Safety Not Guaranteed, 2012 I don’t know if it was funny or inspirational or conceptual or strange, but this movie made me smile and […]
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