Chris Cabin

2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Chris Cabin |Jake Cole

The first time Marilyn Monroe, as the perfectly named Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, walks onto the screen in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, even the train—with a whistle of steam—can’t resist catcalling her. Heading off to front the Sweet Sues, an all-girl brass band starting a residency as the house band at a posh Florida hotel, Sugar Kane has vowed to land a rich hubby, and the way she retrieves a flask of whiskey from her garter, it’s hard to imagine any man passing up the opportunity.

2 months ago | slantmagazine.com | Chris Cabin

Desire as persistent and intense as the sunshine on a bright summer day is what teases out madness in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. The objects, or goals, of these desires are disparate, though they all spiral out following the 1900 disappearance of three young women and a teacher from the Appleyard School during a trip to the small titular ridge on St. Valentine’s Day.

Jun 14, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Chris Cabin |Budd Wilkins

Eulogizing the 1960s in a haze of marijuana smoke, psychotropic apparitions, ether vapors, and coke sweats, Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant, notorious 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has aged startlingly well.

May 21, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Chris Cabin |Derek Smith

As expansive and iconic as its title suggests, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West certainly seemed to be written in John Ford’s blood, from the vast wide-angle visions of Monument Valley that Leone and cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli luxuriated in, to the railroad-based, future-of-America economic landscape that serves as a backdrop to a number of bandit-versus-bandit power plays.

Apr 11, 2024 | collider.com | Chris Cabin

O.J.: Made in America provides a detailed portrait of O.J. Simpson and America's racial tensions. The series delves into Simpson's childhood, personal struggles, domestic abuse, and fame. Ezra Edelman showcases Simpson's dual identity as an athlete and troubled individual, illustrating the impact of fame on society. This review was originally published on January 26, 2016. O.J. Simpson died on April 10, 2024.