I suppose it’s kinda cool that the hottest young stars in Hollywood now establish their cred by the rite of passage of playing gay. In Daniel Minahan’s adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel, at least Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar Jones avoid tragic weepy stereotypes in this handsome literary take on queer identities in the 1950s American West.
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TIFF 2024: The Life of Chuck
Told in three acts in reverse, Mike Flanagan has made a lovely little Stephen King adaptation about how Tom Hiddleston came to be an exceptional dancer who contains multitudes.
TIFF 2024: Eden
Ron Howard dives into the dark scheming heart of humanity in recounting a true story of self-promotional Galapagos settlers in the 1930s.
Telluride 2024: Monday Journal: Maria, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, Nobu
Notes from Monday at Telluride
Telluride 2024: Sunday Journal: Anora, September 5, Saturday Night, Bird
Notes from Sunday at Telluride
Telluride 2024: Saturday Journal: The Piano Lesson, The Apprentice, The End
Notes from Saturday at Telluride
Telluride 2024: Friday Journal: Nickel Boys, Conclave, Piece by Piece
Notes from Friday at Telluride where the festival had world premieres of Nickel Boys, Conclave, and Piece by Piece.
Telluride kicks off 51st SHOW with lineup drop, tribute announcements
Telluride announces the lineup for the 51st show.
Like its title xenomorph, the sci-fi horror Alien: Romulus is ruthlessly effective
Alien: Romulus (2024 | USA | 119 minutes | Fede Alvarez) Sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien taught us that in space no one …
Longlegs climbs high, stumbles precipitously
Structured into three acts with a tantalizingly withholding amuse bouche of a prologue, the vibes are immaculate. Frustratingly, the whole thing self-immolates in its final chapter and destroyed all the goodwill that it worked so hard to build. Early reactions seem far more forgiving than mine.