Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Querelle 1982

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I had a screenwriting lecturer who used to boast how she saw Querelle too young and was scandalised by it. Anyway she was a coward and a homophobe because if I had seen this at 13 it would have changed my life for the queerer ~

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  She-Man: A Story of Fixation 1967

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  They sent me to this place for my first year of HRT

Popular reviews

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  Beautiful They 2021

  ★★½ Watched 18 Aug 2021

  A sun baked love story set on the coast with a non binary protagonist. The story felt like it was set in a dream or a memory, floating in and out in hazy segments. My only complaint is that the dialogue felt sort of generic or at least shallow. I know it’s hard to build character in such a short runtime but I felt let down regardless. I wasn’t able to get a sense of their internal character perspectives other…

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  Love Lies Bleeding 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2024

  I’ve been thinking a lot about 90s queer cinema, how post-AIDs film exploded into a radical, emancipatory project with the likes of Araki, Van Sant, Dunye, etc. These films vibrate out of the damn screen because of the political urgency which propelled them into being. Whenever queer bodies pile in the streets, there is radical art to be made. What else can we do? Love Lies Bleeding feels like the kind of movie one of the 90s New Queer Cinema…