Our essential movie list to watch this Spring 2024! Hot men in leather skirts and bare thighs, don't miss Gladiator II. The weird and very bizarre is Tim Burton's sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The classic return and hotness of Guy Pearce; sashay into The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and check a delightful skin-filled homage to an unlikely revolutionary in the crowd-pleasing film Kneecap.
These are our top four movies to get super excited about and watch this spring 2024.
Gladiator II
CHARGED TENSION AND MUSCLE MEN IN SKIRTS
FUSE movie pick of the month! A film filled with hot men, think Paul Mescal in a leather skirt and bare thighs — yes, Christmas has come early!
Almost a quarter century after Ridely Scott first entered the Colosseum with his Oscar-winning sword and sandal epic Gladiator, the director returns to ancient Rome. Lucius (Mescal), the rightful heir to the throne, has been living a quiet life away from Rome when he is forced to return and fight for his life at the whim of the evil emperors (Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger camping it up). Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen (from the 2000 film) also star.
Did you know? Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without loss of social status as long as they took the dominant role. Acceptable male partners were slaves, sex workers and entertainers.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
BRILLIANTLY BIZARRE AND DELICIOUSLY MANIC
A long time coming, Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 classic sees Michael Keaton reprise the titular role of the troublemaking ghost. Winona Ryder returns too; her Lydia now the mother of a teen who, much like she did, becomes entangled with the underworld.
As a bonus for Burton fans in the lead-up to the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dendy is hosting a retrospective of the director’s films, including his Oscar-winning 1994 biopic Ed Wood, in which Johnny Depp portrays the hapless but passionate movie director with a penchant for crossdressing.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A CLASSIC COMES BACK TO THE THEATRE!
We’re not sure what is more of a surprise: that popular Aussie film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is to get a sequel, or that the 1994 box office hit turns 30 in 2024? In April of this year, director Stephan Elliott announced he would be shooting a sequel to his road trip comedy, with all three original cast members — Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce — set to return.
While we await the sequel, 30th anniversary screenings of the original Priscilla are bringing drag, ABBA and a whole lot of fabulousness back to cinemas. All aboard the bus, ladies!
Kneecap
A DELIGHTFUL HOMAGE TO AN UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARY
It’s likely you’ve never heard of the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, but Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature is about to change all of that. In what Variety calls “a riotous, drug-laced triumph in the name of freedom”, Kneecap recounts, with dramatic and comic license, how these Belfast lads, who refused to use the Queen’s English, took on the law — and the language — and won.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Cairealláin, and JJ Dochartaigh play themselves in this crowd-pleasing film that’s a little bit 8 Mile, a little bit Trainspotting; Michael Fassbender also stars.
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