Ben Turner

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SUMMER OF SAM dropped 27 years ago today--and I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about how Spike Lee's vulgar, hallucinatory portrayal of male fears and lurid lusts acts as a gnashing vivisection of maladjusted masculinity. Also, it's just a real hot movie. Art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social.

Who's Next? (1999)

Summer of Sam uses the Son of Sam as a kind of roving metaphor, the face of the toxicity that beats in Vinny’s heart and the conflict that troubles Ritchie’s soul, the name of the lusts and fears that...

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BASIC INSTINCT was released 34 years ago today. For @brightwalldarkroom.com, I wrote a series of “excerpts” from SHOOTER, the violent book of pulp-smut that Sharon Stone’s character writes in the film. Horny, deranged erotica as film criticism, or vice versa. Art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social.

Excerpts from Shooter, a Novel of Basic Instincts

"He’s backsliding. Falling into old, bad habits. And he has to admit, he more than kind of loves it. It’s almost as if, during these last three months—the sobriety, the no smoking, the celibacy—he was...

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