Femme

In Brie Larson's latest projects, we've seen her playing Captain Marvel in The Avengers movies and The Marvels while wearing a spandex uniform, and she's sported some trendy 1960s looks while portraying chemist Elizabeth Zott in the Apple TV+ adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry. However, when the cameras are off, Larson gives off some major femme fatale vibes through her style, and she proved this by wearing a lacy green slip dress we can’t take our eyes off of. We’ve seen Brie Larson rock the lace attire before. For…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGeorge MacKay has picked what he believes to be the most underrated film of his career so far.The Bafta-nominated and BIFA-winning British actor, whose credits include Pride and 1917, sat down for Independent TV’s new series Go to Bat, which sees stars of the big and small screen shine a light on their past projects that they think deserves more love.Weeks after Boiling Point actor Ray…

Actor George Mackay joins Jacob Stolworthy to discuss his latest film, Femme, which explores a drag performer who finds himself in a disturbingly intimate situation with his attacker.Mackay reveals how he got into the character of Preston, an aggressive, closted gay man, whose masculinity “is so fragile, that if it gets punctured, that’s his entire being gone.”Mackay also opens up about his career beyond the hits, and shines a light on projects that didn’t get the attention they deserved upon release.Get the latest film…

Revenge is rarely a tidy business. But Femme, a savagely sexy queer erotic thriller, explores just how messily complex retribution can be. Set against a fretful, pulsing electronic score and unfolding in a world of sordid neons, it follows an east London drag artist who enters into a highly charged sexual relationship with his unwitting gay basher.Written and directed by first-time feature film-making duo Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, this is a teasing, slippery picture – a power-shifting tussle between out gay man…

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay bring alpha performances to this psychodrama of sexual danger from first-time feature directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, developed from an earlier award-winning short film. Jules, played by Stewart-Jarrett, is a drag artist with an enthusiastic club following and supportive flatmates: protective, plain-speaking Alicia (Asha Reid) and Toby (John McCrea), who has alcohol issues and is not-so-secretly messed up by his unrequited feelings for Jules.Preparing for a show one…