Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Leo's Room 2010

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Pretty basic, gay finding-yourself and coming to terms with your sexuality narrative. Leo's Room doesn't feel particularly groundbreaking in terms of film-making or artistry, but it's always nice to know that there are pieces of media like this that are digestible for people who may still be going through similar processes themselves.

  I think Leo's Room could've gone somewhere really interesting if there was maybe a bit more technically, or if it wanted to pursue more conflict, but it's ultimately…

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  The Blue Caftan 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  The one-two-three combo of beautiful sewing artistry, gay longing, and being closeted while married to a woman who you love and who loves you too.

  The Blue Caftan is a beautiful and elegantly crafted film that has our main character torn between his duty he feels he has as a husband and partner to his wife, and his truth as a closeted man who can't suppress his true feelings. Our main character Halim is a "maalem", a master of his…

Popular reviews

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  Yeelen 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  African cinema undoubtedly has some of the most underappreciated works of art, and while it doesn't have to do so, Yeelen more than proves that.

  Yeelen is a pre-colonialist story of magic, familial betrayal, and exploration of power. So incredibly fascinating as someone who does not have much familiarity with West African cultures, magic, and spiritualism etc. Especially with this being a story set before European and colonialist influence, and to have that perspective in the context of the story…

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  Babette's Feast 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2022

  Oh to be Babette Hersant, greatest chef of her time in Paris at the Café Anglais, to live in a small village in Denmark making delicious meals that bring people together, and getting to wear a cloak as you stride about everywhere. This is Gabriel Axel's film, Babette's Feast.

  Beautiful, touching... I don't even really have the words for Babette's Feast. Encompassing life, spirituality, love, and food, Axel's film is absolutely incredible. And the romance between Martine and General Lowens?…