Alexander Skarsgård
The intention isn’t to provoke, eroticize, or sexually titillate. Devoid of the kinds of melodramatics that play into the fujoshi fantasy that’s all the rage right now, “Pillion” is a film about fetishes that never fetishizes its subject matter to placate an outsider’s gaze.
There’s still room for Brandon Cronenberg to grow as a horror director, but Infinity Pool should make his father proud. It’s a sensory nightmare of bodily dissociation and high class decadence that signals a promising start to 2023.
The Northman is grounded in a manically precise capture of the Nordic world of the 9th century AD, but refracted through the lens of a whacked-out visionary in a spew of eye-popping images.
Of course, with the assistance of the massed megafauna (big beasts), and the yodeling of Tarzan, Jane is saved.
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