TIFF ’24 ‘Bird’ Review
December 7, 2024
“Bird is a reminder that to daydream out in the fields isn’t frivolous.”
‘Fatal Attraction’ Review
August 31, 2024
“For [Alex] to succeed in attaining Dan means systems like marriage, big houses, and the presumed “natural” progression in the narrative we have been offered over and over of a “proper” life, all become worthless.”
‘Indecent Proposal’ Review
August 30, 2024
“Indecent Proposal is clearly not a movie about sex work. If anything, it’s a movie about how we are all able to be bought.”
The Good Life’s On the Inside: Interior Sexuality in Slums of Beverly Hills
August 29, 2024
“In Slums, Vivian’s pleasure is ultimately an interior matter.”
‘Magic Mike XXL’ Review
August 27, 2024
“In Magic Mike XXL, we are offered a glimpse of utopia.”
A Hot Ghoul Chat With Rachel Elizabeth
August 24, 2024
“I kind of stopped viewing anything I did as really radical.”
‘Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink’ Review
August 23, 2024
“Why Are People Into That? is nuanced and richly researched without ever requiring an extreme level of what Horn calls “sexual extroversion.”
‘Challengers’ Review
August 18, 2024
“This film isn’t sexy like sex as much as it is sexy like an airbrushed magazine centerfold.”
Notes on The Piano Teacher
August 16, 2024
“While Walter’s actions are a nonconsensual perverting of Erika’s daydreamy perversion, The Piano Teacher creates, in a sense, the “purest hit” of Erika’s fantasy.”
How Far You Can Go: The Stretch of Love Lies Bleeding
August 15, 2024
“This idea of a stretch is a sexy, squirmy breadcrumb that can be followed spiritually throughout the rest of Love Lies Bleeding.”