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  Psycho 1960

  ★ Rewatched 13 Mar 2024 12

  Two and a half years ago, I wrote one of my most popular Letterboxd posts, a scathing half-star review of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho. I had just been forced to sit through the film in an introductory film analysis class, wherein the professor barely introduced the film, and didn’t so much as mention any elements that may be considered problematic. The uncritical appraisal of this slasher ur-text as part of the western cinema canon irked me so much that…

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  A Trans with a Movie Camera 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Nov 2021

  Excellent film!!!!!!!!! It's not quite a documentary, but it feels like a documentary? Like in the best way possible. Go watch the panel discussion I moderated featuring the director of this film and the authors of an upcoming book on trans rep in cinema. We talk about the film, and about trans representation in cinema more generally.

  Watched at the J.A. DeSève Cinema for Queer Film Club

  Lists:
  Short Films: Best to Worst (#2 as of this review)
  Documentaries: Best…

Recent reviews

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  So Pretty 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  I really liked the experimental structure of the film, I had trouble connecting with it though. It was also a screening with a scrappy little temu projector on a warped screen, so maybe I'd connect better under better circumstances.

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  The Hunger Games 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Feb 2025

  Always did have a soft spot for this franchise. Time for a binge watch.

Popular reviews

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  Tomboy 2011

  ★★ Watched 27 Jun 2020

  Queer cinema month (13/20)

  The first hour and a bit of this and the last 20 minutes to me felt almost like 2 different movies. The first portion is really adorable, with a very open and optimistic view of gender variance in a young child. It also was one of the sweetest portrayals of sibling love I've ever seen. The way Jeanne was quick to accept and respect Mikaëls gender expression, even seeming proud to have a brother, was really…

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  Psycho 1960

  ½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2021 17

  I hadn't seen psycho since well before I realized I was trans. I remembered the whole thing about Norman impersonating his mother and how it kind of began the whole man in a dress / "tr*nny" murderer trope, which is bad enough on its own. I did not however remember how directly, outwardly transphobic the ending was..... The whole speech from the psychiatrist dude talking about how a "transvestite" is a man who wears women's clothing for sexual pleasure and…