retro ad: early 1990s cola-wars commercial
Interestingly, you cannot tell which soda this ad is ostensibly promoting until the very end.
handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
Interestingly, you cannot tell which soda this ad is ostensibly promoting until the very end.
Pontiac! The choice of time-travelling bank robbers everywhere.
Yes, kiddies, this used to be so incredibly cool that we thought we had finally arrived in the space-age future.
Does your take on whether or not Mad Men is a thematic riff on our cultural reaction to 9/11 impact whether you see the use of such imagery as reasonable?
Not a single phone without a cord! Not exactly a Star Trek vision of the future.
Kermit and Beaker lip-synching to Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen…
Xerox! Enabling women’s incompetence and men’s willingness to put up with it since 1960!
From the days when you had to supply your own potato (or other vegetable).
Can the two ever be separated? Do you find it harder to appreciate something as art if its primary purpose is to sell something to you?
Following up on the breaking news of Keanu Reeves’ immortality, here we have what is purported to be one of Reeves’ first paying jobs as an actor… in his Reeves’ persona, that is.