In Which You Should Check Out Blues Hammer If I were a smarter writer I would have saved this entry for much further down the road. Perhaps on the sunset of this series of articles. Not only does Terry Zwigoff’s … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 33: Ghost World
In Which You’re More of a Vibe The 90’s were a nostalgic time. Not like the nostalgia we have now, which yearns for a past of simplicity and relief from existential dread, but a dream of a time with purpose. … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 32: The Limey
Hey everybody, it’s your pal Jeremy here to say that I was incredibly busy with work and holiday stuff this week and didn’t get around to finishing (or if we’re being honest starting) the piece on The Limey. Feel free … Continue reading Millennial Malaise: Oops I was busy
In Which Pizza can be Ordered Online The most notable thing about the 1995 cyber thriller The Net is that Sandra Bullock orders a pizza. After a tough day of bug hunting a copy of Wolfenstein 3D and chatting up randos online, programmer Angela … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 31: The Net
In Which the Serial Killer is Coming From Inside the Computer As I finished watching Virtuosity, the 1995 film by Brett Leonard (him of Lawnmower Man fame) about rogue serial killer AI Sid 6.7 (Russell Crow) and a the disgraced cop Parker Barnes (Denzel … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 30: Virtuosity
In Which This is All For You. The 90’s were the perfect decade for the full flowering of modern conspiracy theories. Here we have a culture where the past eight decades of existence were defined by the greatest conflicts of … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 29: The Game
In Which Tourists are Parasites From our perch entering the third decade of the 21st century there is a nostalgic romanticism to the world of travel of the recent past. That in the brief blip of history that was the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 28: The Beach
In Which God is a Women, and she is Alanis Morissette. The tale of Kevin Smith is the story of arrested development, of an artist who’s success was so intrinsically tied to his personal musings and slacker persona that to … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 27: Dogma
In Which Everything Used to be Something Else The world of cyberpunk is absolutely rife with ideas about malleable identity, fluid sexuality, and body modification. So it’s no surprise that David Cronenberg, with his penchant for fleshy ports and sexually … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 26: eXistenZ
In Which the Only Action we Saw was on CNN The Gulf War is one of the odder chapters in the history of the last half of the 20th century. A punctuation to nearly a century of US military conflict … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 24: Three Kings
In Which it’s Time to Pick Flick An ongoing debate through these articles and the responses to them has been, “how much do movies about awful people endorse their awful actions?” This question becomes even more important as we go … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 24: Election
In Which the World is too Beautiful to Bear Why did American Beauty win Best Picture? It’s a question that has vexed many a movie fan when reflecting upon the 2000 Academy Awards. After a year suffused with so many … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 23: American Beauty
In Which Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich In the broad sweep of films that fall under the, “mainstream culture and work life sucks” banner, many try find the out to such ingrained office and suburban ennui. In a myriad of movies our … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 23: Being John Malkovich
In Which We’re the Middle Children of History I usually never approach these articles with trepidation or pause. They’re pieces to reflect on a specific era of filmmaking by reconsidering hits, highlighting underseen pictures, and looking at junk for purpose. … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 22: Fight Club
In Which I’m Not Lazy, I Just Don’t Care Way back in my piece about Reality Bites I took aim at the conceited antagonism that film had to the idea of selling out. That the existential horror of work life … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 21: Office Space
In Which I Finally Make Some Sort of Schedule. Hello! If you were expecting a regular article this week I’m sorry to disappoint you. My life got consumed in sudden business, but I should be back on track shortly. However, … Continue reading Millennial Malaise: An Announcement!
If You Give White Resentment a Gun… As noted in previous entries in this series, the end of the Cold War created a huge cultural shift in the US. The past 80 years of world history had included at least … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 20: Falling Down
In Which DuJour Means Crash Positions If I were a person to make broad and sweeping generalizations (which is definitely not a thing that writers on the internet do) I would say that the culture of the 90’s was defined … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 19: Josie and the Pussycats
In Which We Accept the Reality of the World We Are Presented Throughout this series we have come across movies about social alienation, the feeling of no control, angst at the post Cold War world order, and fear over how … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 18: The Truman Show
In Which the Cookie Stand is Not Part of the Food Court. For the chronically online you may have noticed an odd story/meme circulating through the social media sphere about the new Avengers movie. The long and short of the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 17: Mallrats
In Which Discrimination is Down to a Science Out of all the sci-fi films covered in this series so far Gattaca stands out. Not for being the best of the bunch (I would still throw that honor to Strange Days … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 16: Gattaca
