“Dead Ringers” 2023 movie is a hypnotic, dark, disquieting and delectably modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 horror movie about identical twin gynaecologists. While it shares much of the same DNA in terms of the narrative and the strange feeling, this six-part Amazon limited series from screenwriter Alice Birch (Normal People) is so much more…
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Blue Jean ~lesbian movie~2022~review
“Blue Jean” is an Eighties-set drama that’s adorned with familiar references (at one point, New Order’s “Blue Monday” plays) – but isn’t mired in outlandish grime and misery. Most crucially, it’s a story about past injustice that doesn’t gorge itself on self-satisfaction. Nor the comforting myth that Britain is on a steady path of betterment….
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