Inspired by Niobe Way’s nonfiction book Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection, this moving 2022 French drama from Lukas Dhont unfolds as a familiar tale of tragedy, guilt, and forgiveness.
Author Archives: J.R. Jones
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Suspect Zero
Long shelved by Paramount, this post-Seven, post-X-Files thriller stars Aaron Eckhart as a disgraced FBI agent tracking a psychic serial killer (Ben Kingsley). This subgenre of the police procedural has become almost as ritualized as the heinous crimes it depicts, so of course Eckhart develops an eerie affinity for the murderer, who seems to know […]
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Fired Up!
Two high school footballers (Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen), eager for fresh female tail, desert their team and join the cheerleading squad, which is about to leave for a training camp. Directed by Will Gluck (whose short-lived Fox sitcom The Loop was shot here), this debut feature is rated PG-13 but has the soul […]
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Cult songwriter Amy Rigby makes her book debut
Amy Rigby’s new memoir, Girl to City, crackles with the kind of sharp insights and perfectly chosen details her fans already love.
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Buzzcocks front man Pete Shelley grappled with metaphysical questions as eloquently as he wrote about physical desire
He most perfectly captured this dichotomy between the carnal and the philosophical on the 1979 B side “Why Can’t I Touch It?”
