James Sweeney
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Twinless is a toned down twist on Saltburn meets Netflix’s Dead To Me.
In Saltburn, Barry Keoghan played a deceptively creepy role.
Both O’Brien and Sweeney are exceptional in a film would make for a great double bill with this year’s queer parasocial thriller Lurker (IYKYK).
This year’s film, Lurker, took a similar approach with a character obsessed over a musical talent.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Directed by Anthony Minghella
influenced Twinless (2025)
Themes Characters
…part bromance, part dark comedy, with a dash of The Talented Mr. Ripley…
Sweeney fearlessly dedicates himself to playing Dennis as something of his own twin-fetishizing Tom Ripley…
…played by the film’s writer-director, James Sweeney, as what can best be described as a “Napoleon Dynamite” vibe, if Napoleon were gay and a bit psycho.
…as what can best be described as a “Napoleon Dynamite” vibe, if Napoleon were gay and a bit psycho.
Would it be sacrilege to say it reminded me a lot of the house of mirrors in Orson Welles’s “The Lady from Shanghai”?
It’s The Odd Couple meets Fight Club meets whatever happens when your therapist cancels on you last minute.
It’s The Odd Couple meets Fight Club meets whatever happens when your therapist cancels on you last minute.
…occasionally creating haunting parallels with Zach Braff’s winsome indie nightmare, Garden State…
O’Brien is firmly in a dramedy space (think like 50/50, The Farewell, or This is Where I Leave You)…
Think Ida meets a less twee Wes Anderson film with a healthy dose of split screen.
…though with a sibling dynamic a la The Skeleton Twins, filling the void of losing their other half…
O’Brien is firmly in a dramedy space (think like 50/50, The Farewell, or This is Where I Leave You)…
O’Brien is firmly in a dramedy space (think like 50/50, The Farewell, or This is Where I Leave You)…
Twinless is a toned down twist on Saltburn meets Netflix’s Dead To Me.
Sweeney’s contrasts between straight and gay friends gear more towards recent raunchy queer comedies like Bottoms, Bros, or Booksmart.
Roman plays like a kid when they hang out, and has a Lenny (“Of Mice and Men”) quality to him.
…the arch tone of his delivery always makes it feel like he’s doing a bit for Saturday Night Live…
The last mainstream Hollywood film to ever try to change the twin comedy formula was perhaps the straightforwardly titled Twins, where the gag was that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito were non-identical twins.
Parent Trap-coded family-switches…
Sweeney’s contrasts between straight and gay friends gear more towards recent raunchy queer comedies like Bottoms, Bros, or Booksmart.