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The Ultimatum: Queer Love and jumping to the end

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Jun 16, 2023
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Alternative subject for this week: without Vanessa, there would be no show

Last week I had a grumble about the cinema being on permanent half-term programming and then I read Kristen Stewart and Rachel Sennott in conversation for Interview magazine, and Stewart said this:

"Everything's just - reality's breaking. That's why movies are either so good or so bad right now. I feel like we don't really have the words for it." 

Stewart said she was high, and when I read that and it landed with me, I definitely wasn't, but sometimes it takes a simple statement to capture something that is simply true. Movies are either so good, or so bad. I watched The Whale at the weekend. Christ.

They were talking in honour of Bottoms, which looks as if it will be in the Jawbreaker/Heathers vein of high school comedies and which I'm desperately excited to see. But more importantly, if Kristen Stewart says reality is breaking, then what are we going to do with our remaining time in this fractious and fractured w…

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