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1 week ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Martin Tsai
The opening scene of No One Will Know, Vincent Maël Cardona's out-of-competition midnight title at the Cannes Film Festival, does little to prepare the audience for what ultimately transpires as an endlessly grim and bloody thriller about the bottomless pit of unbridled greed.
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1 week ago | 
awardswatch.com | Martin Tsai
Following the unexpected successes, both critical and commercial (in its native China at least), of 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan returns with an even more spectacular and artistically ambitious epic, Resurrection, which also marks his first time in the Cannes Film Festival main competition.
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1 week ago | 
awardswatch.com | Martin Tsai
In spite of Iran’s excessively punitive stifling of artistic expression, its filmmakers continue to knock it out of the park even at the risk of political persecution. This year’s Cannes Film Festival boasts two top-notch offerings from the country’s directors, including Woman and Child, writer-director Saeed Roustaee’s fourth feature and second competition title on the Croisette.
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2 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Martin Tsai
Dalloway, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition as a midnight title, exhibits some of the same preoccupations as selections from recent editions. Based on a Tatiana de Rosnay novel, the Yann Gozlan film draws inspiration from the Covid-19 pandemic, much like Eddington. And as with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, there’s a HAL 9000-like evil A.I. wreaking havoc. It also addresses grief in a way reminiscent of last year’s competition title The Shrouds.
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1 month ago | 
queerty.com | Jude Cramer |Johnny Levanier |Martin Tsai |Arin Waller
In ancient Greece, gods and mortals alike were known for sexual fluidity, and queerness is running rampant throughout Greek myth. But the gayest Greek god of all may come as a shock, given his uber-hetero reputation in pop culture. In a recent viral TikTok, artist and ancient Greece enthusiast Lucky Boy (@luckyboy.draws) broke down which Greek god had the most gay lovers across mythology, complete with adorable illustrations. Based on their research, Lucky Boy presented the top three.
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1 month ago | 
intomore.com | Jude Cramer |Johnny Levanier |Martin Tsai |Arin Waller
In ancient Greece, gods and mortals alike were known for sexual fluidity, and queerness is running rampant throughout Greek myth. But the gayest Greek god of all may come as a shock, given his uber-hetero reputation in pop culture. In a recent viral TikTok, artist and ancient Greece enthusiast Lucky Boy (@luckyboy.draws) broke down which Greek god had the most gay lovers across mythology, complete with adorable illustrations. Based on their research, Lucky Boy presented the top three.
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1 month ago | 
intomore.com | Johnny Levanier |Martin Tsai |Arin Waller |Jude Cramer
The Supreme Court in the UK has ruled that the legal definition of gender is binary, excluding trans, intersex and nonbinary people. Activists in the US are joining those overseas in protesting the decision while a similar court case makes its way to the US Supreme Court. On Wednesday April 16, the UK Supreme Court issued a decision on a lawsuit brought by For Women Scotland, an anti-trans group backed by JK Rowling, against the government of Scotland.
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1 month ago | 
intomore.com | Martin Tsai |Arin Waller |Jude Cramer |Henry Giardina
As a cinephile from Taiwan, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with Ang Lee’s work. His aren’t the greatest Taiwanese films ever made by a long stretch, but the Oscar win for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will always be a source of national pride. My relationship with his breakout hit, The Wedding Banquet, about a gay Taiwanese American entering a heteronormative sham marriage to appease his “traditional” parents, is just as complicated.
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1 month ago | 
intomore.com | Johnny Levanier |Jude Cramer |Martin Tsai |Arin Waller
For someone so desperate to project masculinity, JD Vance isn’t so great at picking fights he can win. After referring to Chinese working people as “peasants” while justifying Trump’s tariffs, those so-called peasants are now mercilessly roasting him over the one cosmetic export he can’t seem to do without. Last week, in the middle of another game of global recession chicken brought to us by Trump, JD Vance went on Fox News to justify an impending trade war with China.
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1 month ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Martin Tsai
The Shrouds is David Cronenberg's most intensely personal film, or at least he wants us to think it is. Just how intensely personal can body horror get, you might ask? Well, here we have Vincent Cassel acting as Cronenberg's proxy. Not only is the French bad boy sporting the Canadian auteur's signature slicked back grey 'do, he also gets to recite Cronenberg's spiel on atheism as tech impresario Karsh. So OK.
