Category: Film
Much has been made of the Barbenheimer phenomenon by culture pundits. Today I’m going to make a little more of it, putting forth the claim that Barbenheimer is, overall, …
In an email exchange with an art-and-culture critic friend prior to the film’s release, I shared the prediction, “I think Barbie is going to be philosophically meaningful while also …
Here at What is Metamodern? we are in the business of finding exemplars of the metamodern sensibility in the arts and popular culture. One thing we’ve noticed consistently over …
Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and featuring a star-studded cast, premiered on Netflix on December 24, 2021 and can be described as a satirical, apocalyptic, science-fiction film. …
My favorite film of 2019—nay, my favorite superhero film of all time, is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The protagonist is Miles Morales (voiced here by Shameik Moore), the newest …
I paid the full $20 to watch the film Black Bear (online) on its release day (December 4, 2020) mostly because I’m a huge fan of lead weirdo, Aubrey …
Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird won the 2017 Golden Globe Awards for Best Comedy/Musical and Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan). This may be the first film that treats the transition from postmodernism …
Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben Zeitlin), came out of nowhere and was nominated in several categories in the 2012 Academy Awards, including the …
La La Land, the recently released film starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Damien Chazelle, does not submit complacently to categorization, but we feel it can be at least …