Sinema Club: sex-pos & LGBTQ+ film club: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

House of Scorpio

presents

Sinema Club: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Sun July 13, 7-11:30pm, 21+ (25+ suggested)

For existing & prospective HoS members*; members: $0-10 / non-members: $10 + $2 fee

Gemini & Scorpio Loft, 267 Douglass St, 3rd fl (ADA accessible)

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The body's largest sex organ is the brain. Sinema Club stimulates yours with films that are explicitly erotic, homo-romantic, or gender-exploring -- and always thought-provoking. A rousing discussion follows; drinking is encouraged throughout, and mingling happens before, during and after: the bar lounge remains open for socializing, while the film plays in the main space. Plus: free popcorn from our vintage cart. Order in from the many restaurants around, and make it dinner and a movie.

This month's feature: Love Lies Bleeding (2024).

A romantic thriller set in a rural New Mexican town in 1989. Reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O'Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou's criminal family. It has a 7.8 Rotten Tomatoes rating, with 94% positive critics reviews out of 263: "Lust and violence collide to powerfully pulpy effect in Love Lies Bleeding, a well-acted addition to writer-director Rose Glass' growing body of exceptional work." The movie was named one of the Top Ten Independent Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.

Special guests: we're confirming the intimacy coordinators for the film for a Zoom talk-back!

Sinema Club is curated and hosted by Phil Guie-Ng (@thatphilguymovies): an inquisitive, ardent longtime film critic who is dying to tell you about movies you haven't heard of yet. As a reviewer at the website Film-Forward, his self-appointed mission was covering documentaries and features about subjects who challenged conventional attitudes about gender, masculinity, and more. When Phil isn't writing about movies, you can find him in Brooklyn taking part in protests on behalf of basic human rights.

*HoS rules: HoS membership, dress code, PAL, prior approval not required; Code of Conduct always applies; no photos except in the designated front area.

Respiratory safety: HoS requires proof of COVID vaccination on file; masks encouraged; two hospital grade UV air purifiers will cycle the air.