I’ve seen a sliver of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, and the thing that sticks out, as mentioned previously, is the sexually aromatic emotion that Daniel Craig conveys in the presence of his costar, Drew Starkey. We all associate a certain cool, impassive machismo with Craig’s James Bond persona, but the William S. Burroughs-like fellow he portrays in Queer is certainly not that. He’s almost gelatinous.
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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This morning I finally saw Sean Baker’s Anora, which everyone seems to believe is destined to win the Palme d’Or....
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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Posted on 11.27.23: “One thing that’s always bothered me about Virginia Wolff is that George and Martha’s young guests —...
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I prefer Wolfies because it sounds flip and irreverent — a title you can repeat to your friends with a...
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