Way beyond Cocteau and Disney, this decidedly queer and sexually explicit version of the timeless fairytale La belle et la bête finds a twink Beauty in the candle-lit dungeon of a kink Beast.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in