The last few years have seen a lot of enormous changes in the British Royal Family, an entity known more for tradition than rapid growth. After the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, who ruled over the U.K. most of the 21st century, some people may be looking for some stability. If there’s any couple in […]
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The Spanish filmmaker reflects on the romance at the heart of his new queer western, Strange Way of Life, and the freedom of working in a shorter format. In 32 minutes, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life packs in more tenderness, eroticism and cinephile references than most feature films manage across a couple of hours. […]
Continue ReadingPrince Harry has given his speech at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games, and surprisingly the Duke of Sussex made a small reference to his time as a royal
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Everyone makes this joke, but Nelly Furtado really is flying away quite a bit these days. When we link up over Zoom at the beginning of August, the 44-year-old artist is holding a phone up to her face, relaxed in the backseat of a car and on her way to her next destination. “I just […]
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Michel Franco’s drama about the chokehold of the past boasts star power in Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, but never quite delivers on its emotional premise. The duality of memory is a concept that human beings have been forced to grapple with ever since our brains first functioned with even the slightest indication of cohesion. […]
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Ira Sachs’ latest drama features steamy sex, passionate rows, and some of the best cinematic knitwear in years. We speak to the film’s costume designer to find out how the film developed its signature style. Ira Sachs is well known for telling messy, hopelessly human stories about love, marriage, addiction, and family. His latest, Passages, […]
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For the casual fan, it is perhaps possible to forget—amidst the thrill of space flight, the escapism of distant planets, and the endless meme-ability of those alien puppets—that the word “war” defines Star Wars as much as “star.” There are few, if any, Star Wars stories (even those written primarily for children) that operate without […]
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A successful author returns to his hometown, only to unlock memories of a clandestine love affair in Olivier Peyon’s adaptation of Phillippe Besson’s critically-acclaimed autofiction. The enemy of romance is heartbreak, but both are reliably sharp tools for a writer as they craft a work of fiction from imaginative scenarios that may contain just inklings […]
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I was 21 years old when I first saw Little Women. It was six days after I broke up with my then-girlfriend, and four days after I had rebound sex in a parking garage with someone I met at a party. During the film, I realized I wanted to become a woman. Busy week, I […]
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At the outset, it felt like the cinemas of Pakistan were just as excited for Barbenheimer as the local movie-goer community. Local theaters were offering two-for-one deals – cheaper tickets for one of the biggest movie events in recent memory. The fact that they were even acknowledging the existence of the dual release of Oppenheimer […]
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