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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

I’m going to guess Delta Airlines is the only answer. Read more

I want a man with a smol hand
I want a lover with a queasy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a smol hand Read more

i saw all the HP movies but don’t know what house is what but i got Delta!!!

The movie wasn’t screened exclusively in New York, and the contemporary review linked to in the article undermines your argument about the movie’s supposed relevance, even at the time. You should really read that review. It makes your same point, better. Obviously, the movie was popular, but that doesn’t mean the Read more

Like John Oilver said during his facts vs. feelings argument, the stats may show it is less violent but to those Trump assholes (white people) it feels like crime is out of control. This movie plays to them & their bigoted fears. I mean we all know it was a black man that shot & killed nine people in a South Carolina Read more

The revenge crapola is cyclical: before Archie Bunker, there was the ambivalent melodrama of Joe (starring Peter Boyle and a very young Susan Saradon) basically making fun of counter-counterculture revenge fantastes, but then progressed to Dirty Harry, which was more Zodiac-sploitation than anything, and then

No Goldblum, no interest.

“Needless to say, it’s a movie with a decidedly shitty premise.” I’m not going to argue about that, but media is a product of its time. In the 70s and 80s, violent crime was far more rampant than it is now. NYC was facing mass violent crime, with thousands of murders, rapes, and felonies, while the police seemed Read more

That’s all well and good in retrospect (I’m assuming you didn’t see it when it originally came out), but without the context of the social climate of the time (which the linked NYT review hints at, the review is worth a read for the parallel’s between then and now alone) it’s difficult to say that it wasn’t trying to Read more

The original Death Wish series was decidedly campy, which is what made it fun and not to be confused with something with a political message. If the new movie tries to pretend it is just like real life but also 2nd amendment will fix it then fuck that amateur shit. This movie is meant to be more graphic novel/comic

Bruce Willis is a decade older than Charles Bronson was in the original. I would have guessed they were closer in age. Read more

Schlafly ruined it all! Thank goodness that now she’s in the Madeleine Albright Special Circle in Hell. Read more

WW is the best movie ever, according to my 12.5 year old daughter who saw it 3 times. With me. Here’s hoping the trend never ends. Read more

I’m a self-taught cinephile, and I appreciate the newer, fresher stories and perspectives that this new feminist surge has brought to Hollywood. While I hope it lasts and continues evolving, I also know that Hollywood, mistakenly thought to be some sort of liberal Utopia and almost completely bankrupt in terms of new Read more