Mikko Mäkelä’s tale of a young aspiring novelist who researches a book about sex workers by engaging in sex work himself attempts a meditation on the desire for connective understanding between older and younger gay men. It ends up more of an unintentional expose of how too many in the current generation of writers focus almost entirely on getting published as an end to itself rather than on writing something worth publishing (or reading).
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
This was the second of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. It was the last produced at 20th Century Fox and the last to be set in the proper Victorian era of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories; Universal Pictures picked up the rights after this and set the stories in the contemporary 1940s time period. Fox really treated these as A-pictures, spending a ton of money on lavish sets and moody…
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon-ho, director of sharp, tonaly complex films like the character-study procedural Memories of Murder, the farcical tradjedy monster movie The Host, and the Hitchcockian thriller social satire Parasite, has made some pretty dumb movies in his day—like the sweet but silly environmental fable Okja and the pretentious yet feeble-minded sci-fi allegory Snowpiercer—but his latest offering is far worse than I had previously assumed any filmmaker of Bong's caliber capable of. Mickey 17, a dark-comedy sci-fi political satire, stars Robert Pattinson as…
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Body Parts 2022
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary Body Parts sets itself up as a chronicle of how Hollywood, over the course of its 100+ year history, has depicted the female body and female sexuality. The opening segment leads us to anticipate a comprehensive picture like The Celluloid Closet, which explored how cinema shaped cultural perceptions of gay men and lesbians, or Disclosure, which did a similar investigation into how the entertainment industry, in general, has portrayed trans characters. Those two brilliant documentaries play like…
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