Alexander Payne’s Oscar-tipped 1970-set comedy drama pays tribute to the time, as if it were made back then, without falling into pastiche
Nostalgia is everywhere in pop culture, forced or organic, jolting or comforting: the rewatch of Girls, the reunion of Nsync, the resurgence of Kate Bush via 80s-baiting Stranger Things, the new Fatal Attraction, a refreshed Wednesday Addams, another Sex and the City. It can be a trap. It is, as Vulture’s Craig Jenkins put it in a review of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour movie, the flashiest and most lucrative nostalgia enterprise of the moment, a “retirement community, the place the mind goes when it’s tired of going places”. The retirement community is a bankable one, our streaming economy flush with reboots and revisions harkening to a fondness for the past.
It’s perhaps this omnipresence that gives nostalgia a bad rep. Reaching for the past – it’s easy,...
Nostalgia is everywhere in pop culture, forced or organic, jolting or comforting: the rewatch of Girls, the reunion of Nsync, the resurgence of Kate Bush via 80s-baiting Stranger Things, the new Fatal Attraction, a refreshed Wednesday Addams, another Sex and the City. It can be a trap. It is, as Vulture’s Craig Jenkins put it in a review of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour movie, the flashiest and most lucrative nostalgia enterprise of the moment, a “retirement community, the place the mind goes when it’s tired of going places”. The retirement community is a bankable one, our streaming economy flush with reboots and revisions harkening to a fondness for the past.
It’s perhaps this omnipresence that gives nostalgia a bad rep. Reaching for the past – it’s easy,...
- 11/11/2023
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Donald “Don” West, known for his commentary on Impact Wrestling, has died. He was 59.
Mike Tenay shared a tweet where he confirmed West had died due to lymphoma.
“Just heard from wife Terri that our brother @DonWestDeals will be spending New Year’s in heaven,” he posted. “Terri said D-Dub finally had to tap out from his match with lymphoma. We bonded as soon as we met, both as broadcast partners and friends. Years of great moments both on and off camera.”
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Just heard from wife Terri that our brother @DonWestDeals will be spending New Years in heaven. Terri said...
Mike Tenay shared a tweet where he confirmed West had died due to lymphoma.
“Just heard from wife Terri that our brother @DonWestDeals will be spending New Year’s in heaven,” he posted. “Terri said D-Dub finally had to tap out from his match with lymphoma. We bonded as soon as we met, both as broadcast partners and friends. Years of great moments both on and off camera.”
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Just heard from wife Terri that our brother @DonWestDeals will be spending New Years in heaven. Terri said...
- 12/31/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Hip-hop has something for everyone. That’s the beauty of the genre — but in some instances, it reflects ugly realities. Future’s I Never Liked You and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss are two 2022 rap albums that lean on misogynistic tropes, in their marketing and lyrical content, to great success. Future fully leaned into being the “toxic king” on his project, amplifying the late, controversial relationship expert Kevin Samuels and lacing the album with glimpses of chauvinist tyranny. Similarly, Her Loss was defined by Drake’s hypermasculine posturing,...
- 12/30/2022
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
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