“Saltburn” Is an Important Addition to the Homicidal Queer Con Artistry Canon
Film

“Saltburn” Is an Important Addition to the Homicidal Queer Con Artistry Canon

Peering through a crack in a heavy door like a little voyeur or the viewer of Degas’s bathers if Edgar did homoeroticism, Barry Keoghan’s laughably Dickensian (or Roald Dahl-ian)-named Oliver Quick watches from behind as the golden-bodied object of his affection/obsession/envy, Jacob Elordi’s Felix Catton, jacks off until completion in an opulent old bathtub, placed … Continue reading

Are You Elvis? Are You God?: Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” Slips from Her Childhood Skin
Film

Are You Elvis? Are You God?: Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” Slips from Her Childhood Skin

“Are you Elvis? Are you God?” So asks PJ Harvey on her astonishing new album I Inside the Old Year Dying. The song, titled “Lwonesome Tonight” in reference to Presley’s own “Are you Lonesome Tonight?”, sees Harvey sing from the perspective of the album’s protagonist, a “not-girl” named Ira-Abel, as she calls out to the … Continue reading