For me, the single most disconcerting image in a Steven Soderbergh film is from CONTAGION. It’s not a panorama of people dying from the pandemic that threatens to end civilization as we know it, instead it’s the silent, dispassionately clinical shot of Gwyneth Paltrow’s head being autopsied. There are people I know who reference the… Read More »
HUMPDAY
HUMPDAY is a wry and perceptive comedy that is deadly serious about intimacy, sexuality, and the peculiar zero-sum form of competition that male bonding can manifest. Beyond gender, it also examines with a compassionate, if unflinching, eye the maddening fluidity of personal identity, the not so tidy ways people slice up themselves in order to… Read More »