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Blue Film

Blue Film

Director – Elliot Tuttle – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 85m

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As a gay cam performer visits an older punter to discover they have a shared past, their encounter breaks many taboos – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 11th

Somewhere in L.A., Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) appears in his underwear on cam to web audiences. His platform of choice allows punters to tip him cash tokens as and when either he encourages them or they like what they see. And, who knows, at the end of the night, if you pay the right amount, he might come round to your house…

One of his punters tonight is a much older man (Reed Birney) whose face is concealed by a balaclava mask. Who tips, then turns him off and lies back to relax to music. Later, Aaron will come round for this one night to this punter’s house. Unaware that they have a shared connection from their past lives.

Disturbingly, there are also snippets in the mix of home video footage of a small boy. Wholly innocent footage – or it would be were it not for its one-way communication sex cam context – which renders this footage quite upsetting as your mind starts to make connections warranted or unwarranted. … Read the rest

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Paris
13th District
(Les Olympiades,
Paris 13e)

Director – Jacques Audiard – 2021 – France – Cert. 15 tbc – 105m

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The criss-crossing lives and loves of four characters in Paris 13th District – in cinemas from Friday, March 18th

Shot for the most part in stylish black and white, this starts off with apartment resident Émilie Wong (Lucie Zhang) naked in her grandmother’s flat with her new tenant Camille (Makita Samba), their situation swiftly explained in a “how it all began” flashback. Their intense passion cools after a mere couple of weeks, however, with Camille subsequently bringing another girl he fancies back to the flat.

Meanwhile, law student Nora Ligier (Noémie Merlant from Jumbo, Zoé Wittock, 2020) gets mistaken for online sex cam girl Amber Sweet (Jehnny Beth) at a nightclub and the image of her (incorrect) identity immediately plastered over the internet. She quits university and gets a job at a real estate company, an area in which she has a lot of experience, run by Camille who is looking after the company for a friend and has no idea what he’s doing.

Although Nora delineates boundaries for the office, pretty soon she and Camille are involved in a passionate, physical relationship. Meanwhile, she tracks down Amber Sweet on the web, first for conversations on Amber’s expensive website and later for lengthier conversations for free on Skype.… Read the rest