"Every time a white actress poorly appropriates Gena Rowland’s raw-nerved, generational talent in A Woman Under the Influence they are subtly arguing that there is nothing more to be done with madwomen. Such performances in their lack of imagination ultimately argue that in the fifty-one years since the release of that Cassavetes-Rowlands joint, that treatment, experience, embodiment and cultural conversations of madness haven’t changed one bit." 

This is just a brief excerpt. I wrote about Die My Love for my…

I hated Poor Things and reviewed it for Vulture. That people are speaking of this as a rousing, weird, feminist treatise is insane. How are y’all so easily fooled by such glaring misogyny???? Excerpt below. Read my review here at Vulture. 

“there’s a corroded spirit to the story, like it’s intermittently possessed by an edgelord who’s unaware most women menstruate, and an early-wave white feminist who believes having sex is the most empowering thing a woman can do. (For all the…

Much to ponder. Timothée is committed as hell, his energy never ending and all consuming. An intriguing counterpoint to Gwyneth Paltrow’s chilly haughtiness. Shame the rest of the movie. I’m mixed on the performances of the cast overall and especially the characterization as imagined by its co-writer/director. Adrenalized yet strangely boring for long stretches perhaps because every character is a means to shore up Marty’s extravagant ego or create an obstacle that tests the selfish lengths he is willing to…