Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie Queer.
Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based on the semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs, appears fairly straightforward on its surface. It follows Lee (Daniel Craig), a middle-aged gay man in 1950s Mexico City. He’s the kind of guy who exudes outer confidence, proudly flirting with any man he can.
It’s a strange sensation, to end up loving a movie that makes you feel physically uncomfortable for nearly its whole runtime. In Hard Truths, from veteran master filmmaker Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a woman at war with the world, and herself, every minute. She practically vibrates with belligerence: She can’t go to the grocery store without having a run-in with the cashier; her husband has given up trying to be kind and mostly avoids her; her grown son spends most of his time locked in his room, watching aviation videos—his only relief is to leave the house for long walks, the better to escape his mother’s angry force field.
Tyler Perry has dedicated the past quarter-century of his career to giving voice to Black women on stage and screen. With “The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his success to build a production studio on a former U. S. Army base outside Atlanta — has found a story ideally suited to his […]
The image onscreen appears just as it did in a 17-year-old Luca Guadagnino’s mind: as an infatuated man gazes at his object of desire, a translucent, almost ghostly version of his hand reaches out to stroke the face of his unwitting beloved. The words that inspired this image—ectoplasmic fingers and a phantom thumb—were written by William S.
Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Order. The Order, in theaters today (Dec. 6), stars Jude Law as a fictional FBI agent who leaves his family to track down a gang of white nationalists robbing banks and counterfeiting money. The Order was a real terrorist organization that existed briefly in the 1980s, led by Bob Mathews, who is played in the film by Nicholas Hoult.
More than 630 days after Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour kicked off on March, 17 2023, in Glendale, Ariz., the global concert phenomenon is set to come to an end following three final shows in Vancouver, British Columbia, this weekend.
By the end of its 66-show run in 2023, Swift’s painstakingly crafted musical extravaganza had earned over $1 billion to become the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.