Romance

29.09.2023

Top Gun (1986) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Rewind Double Bill

Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick are available to rent, buy and stream. REWIND DOUBLE BILL TOP GUN (1986) Is Top Gun a homoerotic bromance? A brazen advert for the US military? A feature-length music video? A hormonal teenage dream? Or an opportunity to cash in on the sex appeal of a young Tom Cruise? These questions surround Tony Scott’s military action flick from 1986. Top Gun saw every viewer come away from the sweat-drenched muscles, pearly white smiles, tight white t-shirts and aviators with a slightly different perspective. It was whatever you wanted it to be. There is no doubt

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13.09.2023

Passages (review) – Sachs holds a mirror to the complexity of human sexuality and relationships

Passages is now playing in cinemas nationwide. Some people are never content in any relationship they enter but are equally unable to live outside of one. These people often explore their sexual desires away from their partner’s knowledge while retaining the comfort and security that their partner offers. Equally, some people know their partners aren’t capable of being faithful but go along with it in the knowledge that they, too, cannot be alone. Ira Sachs’ Passages understands that relationships come in many forms, with many conditions and agreements formed along the way to maintain security and comfort. At first glance, Sachs’ fascinating,

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11.09.2023

Past Lives (review) – Celine Song’s stunning debut holds you tight and doesn’t let go

Past Lives is now showing in cinemas nationwide. The Korean concept of In-Yun is brought up throughout Celine Song’s heart-wrenching debut, Past Lives. Roughly translating to fate, In-Yun has deep ties to the philosophy of reincarnation. It suggests that if two people meet, they have interacted in a past life, and if two people fall in love, they have met repeatedly across multiple past lives. It’s a touching sentiment, but it does not factor in the what-ifs that come with thousands of previous interactions leading up to the present. Past Lives dabbles in the melancholia of these what-ifs. Spanning twenty-four years, it

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