Photo edit of image of three women from the 2001 movie Josie and the Pussycats. The words Josie and the Pussycats are written over the image in neon lettering.

Josie and the Pussycats (2001): Subliminal Messaging & Capitalism in the MTV Age.

My original intent when watching Josie and the Pussycats was to do a second entry in my “That’s So 2000’s” series. However, after rewatching this movie, I found it to be ahead of its time and painfully relevant today. So, it’s deserving of its own full deep dive, that’s much more than “remember this movie?”. It is important, I think, to know that this movie … Continue reading Josie and the Pussycats (2001): Subliminal Messaging & Capitalism in the MTV Age.

Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

Ruben Fleischer’s 2009 Zombieland had been a major hit. Was it a hit that necessarily needed a sequel? No, but I am so happy that it has one. Zombieland: Double Tap picks up ten years after the first film, showing us what the characters have been up to and introducing us to some evolved (and not so evolved)  zombies. When Little Rock runs away with … Continue reading Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

Movie Musical Mondays: Rent

Plain and simple, Rent is one of the best known musicals, internationally, of this day and age. The musical took Broadway by storm, and when they made a movie musical in 2005, the popularity of Rent soared to new heights. The movie version differs from the stage version in one main way: the stage musical is done completely in song, mimicking the opera that it … Continue reading Movie Musical Mondays: Rent