Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Good Morning, World


Happy Valentines Day, you sexy everyones! And you know what Valentines means, right? Valentines means it's time to Swallow! Swallowed that is -- meaning The Ruins director Carter Smith's new queer horror film is finally finally finally out for mass consumption today -- click here and you can rent it on Amazon, or check all of the other places where you VOD yer flix. (And can I just say that I love love that this movie is getting a Valentines release.) The photo up top is of the film's star model-turned-actor Cooper Koch, (these photos here seem several years dated now) who we've posted photos of several times before (see here and see here) for obvious reasons...

... and yes, director Smith takes similar advantage of Cooper's photogenic everything so don't worry about Swallowed being puritanical; my god it's the perfect movie to counteract the godawful "Sex shouldn't be in movies!" conversation that keeps breaking our brains on Twitter every few months and is currently flaring up to its most exhausting fever-pitch ever. God those people have such deep issues. Anyway Swallowed is terrific -- here is my review from Fantasia last year, and here is the trailer (as well as its awesome poster) if you missed it. I love love this movie.  Hit the jump for a couple more vintage Cooper snaps...



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The sex scene discourse on Twitter has been utterly DERANGED. I saw "the fictional characters didn't consent to being viewed by the audience" which is an interesting opening into the whole theoretical concept of fiction, visual depiction, etc. ...but only at the level of pure philosophy or maybe psychological case history.

"Consent" seems ripe to join "grooming", if it hasn't already, as specialized language from relatively niche (often ostensibly leftist/progressive) contexts getting picked up by the right -- concepts which they don't really understand and would decry as "woke" (another example, of course) in their original contexts, but seize on and appropriate to further their usual cultural grievances while serving the dual purpose of watering down any power to combat sexual abuse, etc. that the words may originally have had.

Of course actors should not do things that make them uncomfortable (not all actors can or should do everything! Let them find their lanes and stay there!) but I would love someone to ask Penn Badgley why fake-intimacy is different to him than fake-murdering all those people.

Anonymous said...

at this point everyone needs to shut up; teens needs to know that porn and fake sex scenes are completely different with different intentions; millennials needs to not get riled up by 5 teenagers on twitter saying they dont like sex. Civilization is not going up in flames because a 13 year old closes their eyes during the naughty bits. And its not going to traumatize and abuse you if you catch something naughty on TV. Again, everyone needs to shut up!!!!