We truly did not know what we had in Karen Kusama and Diablo Cody. This is the post-9/11 Teen Movie pastiche bar none. All that hot girl patriotism; all that “skinny, evil and twisted” traumatic toxic-ex energy; all that elevated teen slang that nobody ever uttered in real life but which captures the rancid vibe of the times. Probably the most successfully subversive bit of feminist social critique from the era, because it went over all of our stupid, illiterate,…
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The Lost Boys 1987
Two perms come together to maximize their joint slay, and a few mullets try to ruin their fun. In the world of Lost Boys, everyone’s cooler than they’ve ever been—comic book nerds, greased up sax players, video store owners, tweens, wacky grandpas, decaying tourist traps. And everything is a boy band, when you get down to it, whether it’s the Two Coreys or the Four Kiefers or the ten thousand repetitions of Cry Little Sister. Why does Feldman sound like…
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Tim and Toni's Guide To Couple's Massage 2024
The evolution of Tim Heidecker continues, and the tele-huckster’s pulse has never been more under his thumb than now; I could not dream up a more perfect follow-up to last season’s corporate #riseandgrind podcast punditry than this televised soporific makeup sex masked in pseudo-New Age appropriation-cum-bastardization snake oil. Nothing more fitting of the zeitgeist than monetizing a couple’s retreat, than turning a sloppy romantic reunion into a slick-sleazy profiteering corporate merger. Low brow public access mockery come full circle into…
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Poltergeist 1982
A strange but effective matchup: Tobe Hooper’s sick stoner horror invading domestic spaces, injecting spiritual rot into the wholesome family at the core of Spielberg’s blue-blooded Americana. Two queens truly coming together to maximize their joint slay, in other words.
And what’s not to love? Nelson and Williams have charm in spades as doting pothead parents—and they truly make a compelling case for why weed makes people better at parenting. The Reagan-era iconography, the ever-iconic Spielbergian score, the creative supernatural…
