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Interview: Filmmaker Harry Lighton and Star Harry Melling on Making the Gay Biker RomCom Pillion, Casting Alexander Skarsgård and Embracing Audience Reactions

At its heart, Pillion is the story of a timid, gay British man named Colin (Harry Melling, the Harry Potter films, Please Baby Please, The Pale Blue Eye) who is […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 24, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Pillion, Dom/Sub Adult Relationship Dynamics Bely a Sweeter Connection and Search for Self

    For the unaware (myself included), “pillion” is the word for the second seat on a motorcycle, that spot just behind the driver where one can hold on for dear life […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • February 20, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Michael Winterbottom’s Shoshana Skillfully Chronicles Political Turmoil and Unexpected Romance

    In this “inspired by real events” work from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip films, A Mighty Heart) comes a tight-wire act of a film set in the pivotal […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Poe-like Mystery Swirls at the Center of the Moody, Gripping The Pale Blue Eye

    Trying to discern Netflix’s release strategy on any given film is about as productive an exercise as shoveling your sidewalk while it’s still snowing. You’ll never really get anywhere, and […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 31, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Colonialism, Torture and Oppression in a Thought-Provoking Waiting for the Barbarians

    Barbarians

    Written by J.M. Coetzee (based on his novel) and directed by Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the Serpent), Waiting for the Barbarians is set in a rundown but peaceful North African […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 17, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Music

    Review: The Old Guard Is a Grown-Up Action Flick with a Ferocious Kick

    The Old Guard

    First published in 2017, the highly popular Image comic series (and later graphic novel) The Old Guard concerns a small group (meaning four) of immortal warriors who live in secret, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 9, 2020
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