Welcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV.
Is there a more purely surprising cinematic sex scene than the one between Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game? Not these days, anyway, when a movie’s secret is often spilled long before its release date. In 1992, though, when writer-director Neil Jordan’s psychological thriller hit theaters, few audience members fully grokked that Rea’s character, Fergus, would be in for a gender-bending twist via his lover, Dil, played by Jaye Davidson. Read More...
The 10 best ...CultureReviewThe Observer's art critic Laura Cumming selects the paintings that best evoke the exhilaration and the languor of summer1 Claude Monet Poppy Field (1873)
This is the summer you look at in winter, reproduced on millions of sitting room walls, the painting that transports you to the drifting, buzzing heat of those waist-high French fields through which pretty women stroll with parasols. The nearest poppies are disproportionately large to get across the impact of such intense red and parts of the painting hover on the verge of abstraction. Read More...
Tottenham Hotspur have presented Alejo Véliz as a player at the club.
Alejo Véliz has put pen to paper and will be playing in the Premier League. The club posted on their official social media accounts on Tuesday a video presenting the 19 year old forward.
Véliz joins them from Rosario Central and has signed until 2029 where he will be wearing the number 36 shirt.
Hola, Alejo 🧉 pic. Read More...
