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Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter Furiously Jumps Her Way to Freedom in “Poor Things”
Film

Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter Furiously Jumps Her Way to Freedom in “Poor Things”

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If we could exist without shame, fear, or societally imposed standards of good taste and decorum, would we all dance like Emma Stone’s permanently wide-eyed Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’s ecstatically whimsical and intoxicatingly weird film Poor Things? I would hope so. In a dance sequence that instantly replaced the butt-naked post-homicide romp through Saltburn … Continue reading →

Look At Me! How Dare You! Close Your Eyes!: Going Camping with Queen Anne and “The Favourite”
Camp / Decadence / Film

Look At Me! How Dare You! Close Your Eyes!: Going Camping with Queen Anne and “The Favourite”

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“Did you just look at me? Did you?…LOOK AT ME! How DARE you?! Close your eyes!” This head-spinning hysterical interchange, delivered to the silent suffering of a young servant, marks the moment I fell in love with Queen Anne in The Favourite. Played with maniacal glee by Olivia Colman, Queen Anne, with her angular streaks … Continue reading →