Kristen Stewart, playing a gym manager named Lou, starts Rose Glass’ marvelously seedy “Love Lies Bleeding” elbow-deep in a clogged toilet while a blond begs her desperately for a date. Kristen Stewart, left, and Katy O’Brian in the movie “Love Lies Bleeding.” Stewart and O’Brian’s sex scenes are designed to stir up conversation. The closest the film comes to articulating …
December is tamale-making season in Los Angeles, the time of year when I inevitably find myself elbow-deep in a tub of masa. In my family, the tamale prodigies include my husband, who makes green chile pork tamales in the wantonly spicy northern New Mexico tradition, and my mother, who can transform bubbling vats of guisados and hand-blended masa into pyramids …