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Here is a saucy, silly, queer road-movie caper from director Ethan Coen and his partner, co-writer and co-producer Tricia Cooke; it’s Coen’s second film without his brother, Joel, following his Jerry Lee Lewis documentary in 2022. Drive-Away Dolls is a flimsy lark wrapped up smartly and economically in 84 minutes with a perfunctory (and cheerfully nonsensical) MacGuffiny premise that makes it look like a Xerox of Coen brothers classics such as No Country For Old Men or Fargo. Lead player Margaret Qualley’s twangy…

Late 90s and early 00s cinema wasn’t all bad, but it was responsible for a crop of particularly dismal crime flicks. Including pictures such as the now notorious Rancid Aluminium, these were painfully contrived and agonisingly ironic winks to camera, made by film-makers who watched the movies of Tarantino and the Coen brothers and figured, how hard can it be? So it’s disappointing that Ethan Coen’s solo directorial outing (his brother Joel having already ventured out alone with the sombre, stylised The Tragedy of Macbeth)…

In the folklore that has grown up around the Coen brothers over the past 40 years, there are two siblings, Ethan and Joel, and Joel’s wife, actor Frances McDormand, who has been a regular since their first film, Blood Simple, and bagged an Oscar for her unforgettable performance as the pregnant policewoman in Fargo. Ultra-swotty groupies may remember that Ethan’s son, Buster, was credited as Matt Damon’s abs double on True Grit, though Buster was barely into his teens and Damon never displayed his abs.But unbeknown to…

All film noirs start with a bad decision. Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’s follow-up to her cult horror movie Saint Maud and the most case-hardened Southwestern pulp this side of Jim Thompson, kicks off with a doozy. Lou (Kristen Stewart) cleans toilets and works the desk at a gym in New Mexico. Rebecca (Katy O’Brian), a would-be competitive bodybuilder, has just breezed into town and strolls in for a workout. Soon, these two will spend long nights ravaging each other, dumping corpses, dodging bullets, and running for…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMean Girls star Reneé Rapp has shared her thoughts on a fan theory about Regina George’s sexuality.The Sex Lives of College Girls actor stars as high school queen bee Regina in Mean Girls, the musical film based on Tina Fey’s 2004 comedy and the subsequent Broadway musical.You can read The Independent’s review of the new film here.In the two decades since the original film was…

Barcelona-based film-maker Zaida Carmona is the co-writer (alongside Marc Ferrer), director and star (playing an aspiring film-maker character named Zaida no less) of this winning lesbian sex comedy, set in Barcelona and featuring a roster of actors also mainly playing characters named after themselves. Who knows how much of it was inspired by actual events – but even if just a little bit of it is true, these women are clearly having way more fun than the rest of us.Not that their lives don’t have ups and downs,…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press A high school gym teacher grappling with her sexual identity is challenged on both a micro and macro level in 1988 England in ” Blue Jean,” a quietly complex portrait of compartmentalization and self-actualization. In October 1987, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a speech in which she bemoaned the state of education and said that “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.” This was just…

When Marilyn Monroe Talked About Her Lesbian Encounter With Joan Crawford ( Photo Credit – IMDb ) Marilyn Monroe is that enigma who left the world mesmerised with her beauty and charm. Her life was scandalous, full of ups and downs, secrets, but more importantly, grand. Her death in 1962 came across as a shock to many. But all the years she lived, she was loved. Talking about love, the lady was always open about her relationships and never shied away from dropping truth bombs. She once stunned the world when she…

 Smriti Ravindra’s The Woman Who Climbed Trees, set in Nepal and its borderlands, is an exploration into women’s lack of agency within patriarchal society. It delves into the complexities that arise when husbands are physically and emotionally distant, leaving women to confront their own vulnerabilities. It is also an unflinching look at female desire. A Thakali woman in Népal (Bill Wassman/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) In the author’s note, Ravindra writes of the complex dynamic that has shaped the…

The time for Pride is upon us, and there’s a whole lineup of celebrations to add to your calendar. From parades and festivals to dance parties and drag shows, here are all the ways to be gay in the Bay for Pride. Lashanna Hornage, program manager for Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs, smiles under her rainbow umbrella during Silicon Valley Pride Parade (Shae Hammond/Staff Photographer)  Silicon Valley Pride 2023: May 31 to Aug. 27, various venues in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley’s Pride celebrations are lined up…