Queer is a 2024 period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1950s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expat (Daniel Craig) who becomes infatuated with a younger man (Drew Starkey). Lesley […]
Happy Together (Chinese: 春光乍洩) is a 1997 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, depicting a couple’s turbulent romance. The English title is inspired by the Turtles’ 1967 song of the same name, which is covered by Danny Chung on the film’s soundtrack. The Chinese title […]
Set in the early 1980s, “Making Love” dared to tackle the complex themes of homosexuality, marriage, and self-discovery. The film opens with a glimpse into Zach and Claire’s seemingly perfect life, but everything changes when Zach meets Bart (played by Harry Hamlin), a charismatic writer who is openly gay and unapologetically true to […]
Directed by Ira Sachs Rogowski plays a charismatic, self-involved film director, Tomas, who leaps back and forth between the Parisian apartments of artist husband Martin (Whishaw) and school teacher Agathe (Exarchopoulos). Ss a result it all unravels when a disinterested Martin leaves Tomas’s movie wrap party early, and Tomas hits it off with the younger […]
Original Title: Dolor y gloria Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, […]
Knock at the Cabin is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the screenplay from an initial draft by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. It is based on the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay, the first adaptation of one of his works. The film […]
Albatross – 2022 A dark, dramatic thriller, “Albatross” examines the concept of self (identity, ethnicity and sexual-orientation) in the context of society, while illustrating the compromises individuals are willing to make to feel as though they belong. Two seemingly separate narratives, spanning some 30 years converge at a dinner party between two newly introduced […]
My Policeman – 2022 My Policeman is a 2022 American romantic drama film based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts and directed by Michael Grandage. The film stars Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett. My Policeman had its world premiere at the Toronto […]
Beautiful Beings – 2022 Also Called “Berdymi“ Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to […]
Benediction – 2021 Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within. Siegfried Sassoon, a decorated WWI combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance during […]