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Covers:  Film, TV, music, queer culture.
Making words at the word factory. GQ UK. Occasionally elsewhere • jack.king@condenast.co.uk
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Joker is both morally confusing and surprisingly good

Joker is both morally confusing and surprisingly good

British GQ — Joker review: The latest DC outing takes a look at the origin story of Batman's most famous enemy, The Joker. Cast an angry man who feels oppressed by the system, it's a movie of questionable logic sustained by Joaquin Phoenix's central performance.
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How gay rights activists disrupted this exploitative 70s queer film

How gay rights activists disrupted this exploitative 70s queer film

i-D-UK — In July 1975, film director William Friedkin -- two years after his massive box office success The Exorcist -- attended a film class at Manhattan's New School as guest lecturer. He recalled his research methodology for the room of burgeoning, dewy-eyed filmmakers.
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The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Echoes Of Utopia: 40 Years Of 'Cruising'

The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Echoes Of Utopia: 40 Years Of 'Cruising'

The Quietus — There's one particular scene which springs to mind when I think of William Friedkin's Cruising. It has nothing to do with scandalous, psychosexual murder; there's a whole lot of blood rising, but it's not being spilled. The sense evoked isn't one of excruciation, but of ecstasy.
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If It Were Love review - an emphatic celebration of the senses

If It Were Love review - an emphatic celebration of the senses

we-love-cinema.com — Patric Chiha's intoxicating documentary goes behind-the-scenes of dance troop Crowd, a touring piece by choreographer Gisèle Vienne To experience Patric Chiha's kaleidoscopic dance-doc If It Were Love is to be transported to a smokey Kreuzberg bar reverberating with pulsing house anthems and packed with sticky, delectable bodies.
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Cicada review - one for the LGBTQ+ film bargain bin

Cicada review - one for the LGBTQ+ film bargain bin

we-love-cinema.com — Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare's trope-heavy and stereotypical queer romance tells an uninspired story about unlikeable characters M att Fifer and Kieran Mulcare's vacuous debut is just another gay two-hander for the Grindr age - a dime a dozen in the post-marriage equality West, this one destined for the Netflix "LGBTQ+ Films" bargain bin.
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10 great films about queer activism

10 great films about queer activism

bfi.org.uk — The history of queer activism is entwined with the history of queer identities and lives. Those within the queer community have been born into opposition against the heterosexual mainstream: to live openly as a queer person in itself has historically constituted a revolutionary act.
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The psychology behind obsessively watching pandemic movies

The psychology behind obsessively watching pandemic movies

i-D-UK — Whether you're Extremely Online or just an occasional user of the frenzied sphere of social media, it'll hardly come as news to you that Contagion -- Stephen Soderbergh's pandemic drama which maps the eruption of a lethal novel virus, one which begins by unceremoniously offing Gwyneth Paltrow before claiming the lives of 29 million others worldwide -- has become grotesquely popular in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
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This brutal documentary exposes Chechnya's queer genocide

This brutal documentary exposes Chechnya's queer genocide

i-D-UK — In February 2017, authorities in Chechnya -- a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus -- arrested a man they suspected to be under the influence of a controlled substance. As is procedure, they searched his phone.
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The Resident Evil movies were a camp cultural reset

The Resident Evil movies were a camp cultural reset

i-D-UK — Trying to give camp a straightforward definition defies the entire point of what camp is. Camp is bent. It can be self-aware, and not self-aware in the slightest; it is both Drag Race's Sharon Needles and Sharon Watts from EastEnders. What unites all cultures of camp is their relationship to ridiculous and the overtly theatrical, an active rejection of tastefulness.
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This brutal documentary exposes Chechnya's queer genocide

This brutal documentary exposes Chechnya's queer genocide

i-D-UK — In February 2017, authorities in Chechnya -- a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus -- arrested a man they suspected to be under the influence of a controlled substance. As is procedure, they searched his phone.
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Remembering Longtime Companion, a pioneering portrait of the AIDS crisis

Remembering Longtime Companion, a pioneering portrait of the AIDS crisis

Little White Lies (magazine) — Norman René's compassionate opus remains the only theatrically released film to accurately reflect the epidemic's impact. The 3rd of July, 1981 was a typical day for most New York City slickers.
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Welcome to Chechnya - Berlin Film Festival review

Welcome to Chechnya - Berlin Film Festival review

Little White Lies (magazine) — Welcome to Chechnya - Berlin Film Festival review Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."
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Knives Out is a whodunnit deconstruction of everything wrong with America

Knives Out is a whodunnit deconstruction of everything wrong with America

British GQ — As the United States becomes more calamitously divided, filmmakers have clearly recognised there is a national appetite for American introspect. Some examples bore less fruit than others (see: Joker ) but in Knives Out, Rian Johnson's follow-up to the critically acclaimed yet controversial Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Johnson slashes at the jugular of American exceptionalism and inherited wealth vis-à-vis murder mystery.
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Timothée Chalamet is the only really good thing about The King

Timothée Chalamet is the only really good thing about The King

British GQ — Adapting Shakespeare is a territory rife for mistakes: too rigid an adaptation, too close a bearing to the original language, and you can leave the whole thing inaccessible. Too abstract a display - see: most student theatre - and you run the risk of losing what made the work so powerful to begin with.
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'Is butter a carb?' How Mean Girls became Meme Girls

'Is butter a carb?' How Mean Girls became Meme Girls

Little White Lies (magazine) — 'Is butter a carb?' How Mean Girls became Meme Girls Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."
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Have we already forgotten the AIDS crisis?

Have we already forgotten the AIDS crisis?

huckmag.com — The US Election has been on a knife-edge since Election Day, but with most of the votes left to count in key swing states being favourable to Democrats, it looks more and more likely that Donald Trump will join the likes of Jimmy Carter and George H. W.
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Sound of Metal Star (and Oscar Nominee) Paul Raci Would Do This All Again

Sound of Metal Star (and Oscar Nominee) Paul Raci Would Do This All Again

Vulture — Sound of Metal could aptly describe the vibe of the office in Paul Raci's Los Angeles home, which I'm peering into via Zoom: the space behind his left-hand shoulder is decorated with flashy electric guitars, contrasted against an austere background of patterned wallpaper.
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