Is the ‘Barbie’ Movie Performative Subversion or Meaningful Rebellion?
Is the Barbie movie, like the Barbie dolls, a superficial attempt to co-opt feminist discourse? Or does it offer something substantial?
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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Drips with Danger and Desire
Rose Glass drenches Love Lies Bleeding in sensation and texture, as if she dragged the film through pools of viscera on the floor of a Foley sound effects studio.
Chewing the Scenery and Chewing on Actors in ‘Man-Eater of Kumaon’
Sabu and a tiger foreshadow Byron Haskin’s special effects and science fiction adventures of humans vs. the elements in Man-Eater of Kumaon.
The King of Monsters Returns to His Roots in ‘Godzilla Minus One’
Takashi Yamasaki’s Godzilla Minus One returns to the roots of the origin story with essential drama that gives weight to the monstrous spectacle.
David Fincher’s ‘The Killer’ Is a Deadly Satire of the Corporate World
You can read David Fincher’s The Killer as a story about a murderer, or you can see it as the satire of our pathetic little existence that it really is.
Tom DeLonge’s ‘Monsters of California’ Is So Blink-182
Tom DeLonge’s sci-fi film Monsters of California is the cinematic manifestation of a Blink-182 song crossed with a paint-by-numbers tour of paranormal activity.
‘Expend4bles’ Is a Convoy of Clichés
The only thing that salvages Scott Waugh’s unpronounceable Expend4bles from the usual action film clichés is the franchise’s new star, Jason Statham
French Pop Cinema of the 1960s Brings Tintin to Life Twice Over
Tintin is one of the secret engines of 20th Century pop culture in Europe and Hollywood, as shown in these James Bond-like movies for the elementary school crowd.
‘Star Pilot’: Sixties Sexy Italian Space Opera a Go-Go
Sixties sexy Italian Space Opera had a budget as skimpy as the costumes and the actors play the high-pressure take-offs as though they’re all mid-orgasm.
Pee-wee Herman: The Existentialist at Play
Pee-wee Herman forever lives in a cosmos without a supernatural giver of laws. In such an existentialist world, Nietzsche says, we must be like children and invent a world of meaning, lest we be consumed by the great void.
Can Barbiecore Put Some Color into Corporate-World Fashion?
Barbiecore might be more than a summer phase. The Barbie movie has some women thinking it’s time we rocked the pink in corporate-world fashion.
Fashion Is the Loose Thread in the ‘Barbie’ Movie’s Pink Armor
The pink fashion in the Barbie movie may seem like feminism, but if you squint deeper into the pinkwashing, you’ll spot some loose threads that you just have to pull.