2021 sucked, but you know that already. I watched close to 600 movies last year, which is far too many.…
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2021 sucked, but you know that already. I watched close to 600 movies last year, which is far too many.…
Willow Catelyn Maclay: In the lead up to Lana Wachowski’s latest film The Matrix Resurrections there was a buzz in…
In Isabel Sandoval’s newest film Lingua Franca, a Filipina trans woman named Olivia (Sandoval), is in search of the stability…
You learn real fast not to trust Hollywood when growing up in the Appalachian region. The Barbara Kopple’s (director of…
In the documentary Beautiful Darling (2013) Julie Newmar said of Candy Darling that she had a Marilyn Monroe quality about…
Karen Black’s performance as Joanne in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)…
This post contains spoilers for Detransition, Baby CADEN MARK GARDNER: Willow, it has been a while since we have done…
In David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996) Doctor Robert Vaughn (Elias Koteas, part Doctor Frankenstein, part his Monster) is obsessed with the…
Watching old movies was the only “normal” thing about the past year. Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction is the rare film…
With Happiest Season, director Clea DuVall wants us to consider the historical ramifications of queer cinema and what stories have…