Overview
- Pillion began its theatrical run in the UK and Ireland on 28 November, arriving to broadly positive notices from national outlets.
- Harry Lighton makes his feature debut with a loose adaptation of Adam Mars-Jones’s Box Hill, starring Harry Melling as Colin and Alexander Skarsgård as Ray.
- Critics describe the film as graphic yet unexpectedly sweet, emphasizing an unsensational tone alongside explicit sex and an 18 certificate.
- Real members of the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club and the kink community appear on screen, a choice reviewers say adds lived-in authenticity.
- Conversation is growing around how the dom/sub dynamic handles consent, even as Melling says he felt very comfortable filming the sex scenes and Skarsgård drives a high-profile, leather-forward press tour following a warm Cannes reception.