Stephen King adapts his shapeshifting horror-romance novel into an eight-part series, directed with deliberate disorientation by Pablo Larraín and starring a commanding Julianne Moore.
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Shiva Baby is in UK cinemas for one day only on 9 June and streaming on Mubi from 11Â June.
This slick, sly comedy of New York Jewish manners rests on a simple, claustrophobic premise: what if your whole precarious life, your carefully constructed, fatally fragile persona, fell publicly to pieces amid the ritual and solemnity of a strangerâs funeral?
This is the predicament of a young woman, Danielle (Rachel Sennott), who has chosen to rebel against her wealthy and respectable parents by pursuing a parallel, secret life as a sex worker. Alongside some casual escorting, she has cultivated a long-term transactional relationship with Max (Danny Deferrari), who gives her cash and expensive presents in return for sex and happily accepts her lie that he is helping to pay her way through a non-ex
In bleak, smalltown Utah, a man threatens to kill his wife, her lover and himself, in a film which neglects to give any point of view but the perpretator’s.
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The rise and fall of the American designer Halston touches so many of the cultural pressure-points of the 70s and 80s it was bound to get miniseries treatment sooner or later. His fashion skills wrested the attention of American consumers away from the European names that dominated the field, to create a brand allure that expanded into perfumes and homeware to make him a household name.
But his self-created stylish image hid contradictions: Roy Halston Frowick was an Iowa country boy who became dressmaker to Hollywoodâs A-list, and a mainstream media figure who covertly enjoyed the eraâs gay sexual freedoms and coke-fuelled excess. With the advent of the 80s he fell off the corporate rollercoaster heâd ridden to fund his success, and, like so many of his generation, succumbed to the first wave of Aids.