If you like the idea of a 90 minute Rusical, this is the film for you! Pales in comparison to its predecessors but is sustained by glimpses of comic genius from otherwise handicapped stars. Jujubee and Latrice Royale forever. Brook Lynn is the heir, apparently (she plays mean SO well). 

Airplane! (1980) (haven’t seen it) is the immediate comparison but when considering this is directed by the guy who adapted the musical-based-on-the-original-movie-by-John Waters for film (Hairspray (2007)), there is surprisingly…

gothic Romance through the lens of kink. emerald fennell is a genius. 

I thoroughly enjoyed it. fennell’s interpretation of wuthering heights elevates this from a straightforward adaptation to something more artistic and Impressionistic. 

fennell, and brontë (haven’t read it), understand that we beat our meat to these tragic love stories precisely because the “true love” at their core is never fully realized. a will-they-won’t-they is much more tantalizing than a they-will. an extramarital affair with your maybe half brother who…

I too have been on a strong dose of psychedelics with someone who changed how I saw myself and the world, on a beach, in the woods, in an empty house. sometimes, cracking the door open enough to peer inside. other times, flinging it ajar and running through, hand in hand. in other words, yes this happened to me.  

i’m glad lucia texted me right as I left my screening to let me know that luca, while introducing the…