Category: Roundup

• Girls Aloud: What I Watched, September-October 2020

  

  As I wrote earlier this year: “The role of third-wave feminism certainly took its hold in the cinema of the 2010s. Women in the 21st century are allowed, more than ever, to be imperfectly perfect creatures: kind and compassionate, cold and calculating, badass…or just plain bad.” Nowhere has this been more evident than in film…

  Jessica Taghap

  January 17, 2021

  Review, Roundup

  Anya Taylor-Joy, Blackpink, Blackpink: Light Up the Sky, Enola Holmes, Film, K-Pop, Millie Bobbie Brown, Music, Netflix, Netflix Documentaries, Netflix Originals, Netflix Specials, television, The Queen’s Gambit

• The Pulchritude of Fosse, Revisited: A Look at Those Famous Jazz Hands—Step-by-Step, Inch-by-Inch, Frame-by-Intoxicating-Frame

  

  According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, the word pulchritude (one of my personal favorites) is defined simply as ‘physical comeliness’ — and if there is anything that fits that description, it’s director-choreographer-auteur Bob Fosse and his distinctive choreography.  Known now for its emphasis on rounded shoulders and isolated movements, Fosse’s choreography was inspired by what he…

  Jessica Taghap

  May 31, 2019

  Rewind, Roundup

  Ann Reinking, Bob Fosse, dance, Days of Inspiration: Film, Days of Inspiration: TV, Erzsebet Foldi, Fosse/Verdon, Leland Palmer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, musical, Musical Theatre, Sam Rockwell, Sight

• Marina & the Diamonds, Revisited: Sampling the ‘Froots’ of Her Ouvre

  

  Longtime followers of mine will know how long I’ve been a fan of Marina & the Diamonds, and perhaps it’s no wonder.  Like the neon garden world of her last outing, fittingly titled Froot, Diamandis has managed to grow into her own as an artist. As a fellow fan phrased it: “You’re lucky to be…

  Jessica Taghap

  October 9, 2018

  Rewind, Roundup

  Days of Inspiration: Music, Marina and the Diamonds, Marina Diamandis, Sound, Video