Julianne Moore sets feminism back several decades in the film Laws of Attraction. Moore stars as high powered New York City divorce lawyer Audrey Woods, a cardboard cutout of a character, whose calm, cool, and collected exterior is just a facade that hides her overwhelming insecurity and lack of an authentic sense of self. As ...
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and of course, Bogey and Bacall; these are some of the greatest on-screen duos of all time. And yet, my personal favorite flies under the radar time and time again. The aforementioned brilliant pairings all stuck to essentially the ...
Sigmund Freud’s well-known theory of the Oedipus complex “explain[s] the maturation of the infant boy through identification with the father and desire for the mother” (“Oedipus complex”). Perhaps less well-known is the female counterpart to this theory, the Electra complex. The theory, developed by Freud and coined by psychiatrist Carl Jung in reference to a ...
There is perhaps no movie duo more enduring or loveable than that of William Powell and Myrna Loy, made famous and best known as Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man series. There was an unsurpassable chemistry between them on-screen, and even off, that made them unforgettable to audiences of the 1930’s to today. ...
