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About
Stephanie Sklar is a 40-something-year-old writer whose work appears on The Movie Buff and Taffeta.com. She resides in Silver Spring, MD with her boyfriend, their daughter, and their two orange tabby cats, Slam (the shorter, fatter, lighter-colored, and more tabby one) and Allie (the longer, leaner, and skinnier hunter who is more Siamese, orange, and stealthier). Stephanie loves the beach, boardwalk, Barn 34’s pancakes, and soft-serve ice cream in Ocean City, MD.
My Posts
How the Film Fast Food Nation Helped Me Become a Vegetarian
Becoming a vegetarian was actually easier than I thought it would be. I never cared for fatty meat. There’s nothing ...
The Dilemma of Manhattan & Woody Allen’s Creepy Behavior On & Offscreen
Today, we’re going to have a look at Woody Allen’s relationship in the 1979 film, Manhattan, in which his character, Isaac ...
My Book Review of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty
The book could've been a happier story about the making of the film. I walked away from it mainly sad ...
10 Things the Dark Comedy, Promising Young Woman Gets Right
For a long time, Hollywood was really sucking, with virtually no material that fostered a meaningful dialogue between the sexes on ...
From the Film School Vaults: I Have to Praise You Like I Should? Marilyn Monroe: The Blonde Venus in Some Like it Hot vs. Joan Crawford: The Fallen Independent Heroine in Mildred Pierce
Abstract In Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959), there are many point-of-view shots of Joseph (Tony Curtis) and Gerald (Jack ...
From the Film School Vaults: The Aesthetics and Social History of Film Noir in Sunset Boulevard and In a Lonely Place
Abstract The film noir aesthetics of In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950) and Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950) consist of cigarette ...
From the Movie Review Vaults: The Object of My Affection
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in The Object of My Affection. Okay, the plot is ridiculous: A woman comes to ...
Vintage Movie Review: Grosse Pointe Blank
Minnie Driver and John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank. The real reason I stayed sane last semester was the existence ...
From the Movie Review Vaults: Everyone Says I Love You
Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, and Alan Alda in Everyone Says I Love You. Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Natalie Portman, Edward ...
Vintage Movie Review: Clay Pigeons shows just how dark a dark comedy can be
Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn make a grisly discovery in the very dark comedy, Clay Pigeons. “Evil has many faces ...
From the Movie Review Vaults: One True Thing – one true tearjerker
Tom Everett Scott, Meryl Streep, William Hurt, and Renee Zellweger in One True Thing. It is strange how families can ...
Vintage Movie Review: Slums of Beverly Hills – just a really good time
The year was 1976–a time when TV sets still had antennas, orange shag carpeting was classy, Pick ‘n Save was ...
My Rating of The Sopranos
70 (C-), 21/30 (21 out of 30). This is done on a five-point scale for each episode, being that five ...
The Music at the End of the Cult-Classic Film, Over the Edge
The kids of the 1979 cult favorite, Over the Edge, from left to right: Johnny (Tiger Thompson), Claude (Tom Fergus), ...
