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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
Saint Maud writer/director Rose Glass helms the late-'80s New Mexico-set lesbian noir romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding. Starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian as a reclusive gym manager and her hitchhiking bodybuilding drifter lover, we focus on the cyclical nature of violence told through a destructive queer romance between two very lost, broken women at the insection of desperation and desire.
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Dream Scenario 2023
Dream Scenario is a hilarious satire of cancel culture starring Nicolas Cage as an otherwise forgettable professor who starts inexplicably showing up in strangers' dreams (imagine A Nightmare on Elm Street as a comedy). Written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, where the surreal fantasy film goes makes for a brutal takedown of our contemporary society, never failing to illicit truly tense comedic horror.
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Poor Things 2023
Idiosyncratic Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos reteams with star Emma Stone (also a producer) to adapt the madcap fantasia of self-discovery Poor Things, based on the novel of the same name by Scottish writer/artist Alasdair Gray. This wildly surreal steampunk fairytale comedy feels just as heartfelt and earnest as it does shockingly sexually graphic.
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