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Movie fans have been eagerly awaiting Kristen Stewart's new romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding to drop on the 2024 movie release schedule (it hits theaters March 8) ever since it earned rave reviews at Sundance earlier this year. Early-bird viewers praised the star's potent, electric chemistry with her co-star Katy O'Brian, and Stewart recently revealed that their onscreen connection was boosted by the presence of an intimacy coordinator. The 33-year-old actress plays a reclusive gym manager Lou, who falls hard for…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKate Winslet has welcomed the rise of intimacy coordinators on film and television sets, saying that throughout her career she would have appreciated their presence “every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene”.The Oscar-winning actor, 48, is currently starring as the dictator of a crumbling authoritarian regime in a fictional European…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJenna Ortega is said to have been “comfortable” and “very sure” of her sex scenes in her new movie, Miller’s Girl, the on-set intimacy coordinator has said amid viewer backlash.The 21-year-old Wednesday star acts opposite Martin Freeman, 52, as Cairo Sweet, an 18-year-old university student who enters a complicated and inappropriate relationship with her married English professor,…

Three years ago, shortly before dawn, Elle McAlpine was catching the train home, having just orchestrated an orgy. She had left the set of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated Poor Things: a night-time shoot where more than 100 dancers descend into sexual revelry.McAlpine laughs to remember her journey home, sitting on the tube alongside her fellow passengers, still processing the scene she’d just presided over. “I was like, ‘If people knew what I’ve just done …’“For all intents and purposes, it looked real, as well: all…

Jennifer Aniston served some piping hot tea regarding the infamous sex scene she shot with Jon Hamm for the AppleTV+ series, The Morning Show.The Morning Show’s third season was released in September, but it wasn’t before October that passionate discussions about the series started to circulate, when its sixth episode titled The Stanford Student was released.In the episode, Jennifer, who plays the role of reporter and morning show host Alex Levy, joins Jon, who plays tech billionaire Paul Marks, in a sexy scene.Jennifer…

Oppenheimer isn’t going to be many people’s favorite Christopher Nolan film, but it may well be his best. Since the writer/director burst onto the scene in 2000 with the neo-noir Memento, those who like ambitious yarns and foreboding push-ins have considered him a sure bet with each new release. Fans have claimed that The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Dunkirk are nothing short of masterpieces, while others cite the narrative geometry of Inception and Interstellar as their preferred brand of dense escapism. Yet, all of…

As a child, Harriet Gibsone would spend hours sitting with a friend on the roof of a rotting wooden playhouse, staring into the front room of an elderly couple who lived over the fence. This illicit hobby was an oddly mesmerising exercise in anthropology. It was also an early manifestation of what she dubs her “inherent lurk-mode compulsion”, an urge that morphs into a full-blown addiction in adulthood, thanks to the internet and its opportunities for snooping.Her eye-wateringly honest and all-too-relatable memoir takes…

US singer and Australian Idol judge, Meghan Trainor, has opened up about her struggles with sex due to a gynecological medical complication on the Workin’ On It podcast. Meghan Trainor opens up about her painful condition on Workin' On It podcast. (Image Credit: Youtube) Trainor has been diagnosed with Vaginismus, which causes involuntary tensing on the vaginal muscles, making love can be painful for sufferers and they may even avoid physical intimacy because of this medical condition. This is a very common…

Church Wedding in the Eastern Cape, 1920. Credit: Monica and Godfrey Wilson Collection BC880/African Studies Library/University of Cape Town A new book, "Convening Black Intimacy," explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct…

This cryptocurrency startup believes ‘sex-to-earn’ is the future of web3! Check now In the past year, Web3, also known as the next stage of the internet, has been prompting discussions of what’s possible for the future of digital art and digital embodiment. Simultaneously, internet censorship has reached its peak for sex workers and sex-positive individuals, making the internet as we know it, also known as Web2, sex-negative. To curb this, several creative pioneers have transitioned into the metaverse to…