Challengers soundtrack articles
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All Your 'Challengers' Questions, Answered by 'Challengers' Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes
This interview contains major spoilers for Challengers. Movies are back, baby! Luca Guadagnino’s sexy, sweaty tennis-threeway movie Challengers won last weekend in the zeitgeist as well as at the box office, dominating group chats, social media feeds, and even the GQ Slack. In this post-monolithic age of media consumption, it’s increasingly rare for any release—barring peak Marvel or juggernautish new studio albums by the likes of Beyoncé or Taylor Swift—to become that central to the...
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How Gay is Challengers, Really?
Because Challengers is a Luca Guadagnino film, and we can reliably expect the movies of the guy who associated Timothée Chalamet with peach-fucking to be at least a little gay, people on the internet have long wondered just how gay it would be. This speaks to a number of things. Most importantly, everyone seems to want to see Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist shag. It also speaks to a greater appetite for queer desire on screen, not least shot by someone who has a proven track record for getting gay...
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Five Cent Cine: Challengers
Challengers ★★★1/2 (out of 4 stars) “Are you talking about tennis?” In the final seconds of “Challengers,” Tashi (Zendaya) breaks the plane of her controlled, low-affect character to hurl a []