The 52: Any Day Now
From June 2023 to June 2024 I'll be watching a lgbtqia+ film each week and coming back here with my thoughts, feelings and plenty of hopes we aren't met with the "kill your gays" trope. I call this The 52. First and foremost: Alan Cumming is a star. Image credit: Wikipedia Second and also fairly close to foremost but not quite there: he deserved literally anything except this haircut. Any Day Now begins in a somewhat unpromising way, but don’t be warded off by dick behaviour and more dick behaviour (expect 30mins of this) because this film is absolutely… heart wrecking. Yeah… be warned. Any Day Now is ruinous. Again I’m a little stumped, uncertain how to proceed in describing a film that, by the end, left me utterly frozen. We’ll return to Alan Cumming, who deserves everything and is transcendental, who gives such a performance you forget you aren’t experiencing every moment yourself, who embodies Rudy with such fire that, on a coin, becomes tenderness,