A truer portrait of queer life in America than most fiction out there, everyone keenly aware that the tension never went away so much as it has gradually just been accepted as being what it is. My native Midwest is far away from rural Vermont but the same mentality carries across the nation in my experience: humanity recognizes each other no matter what. It makes me reminisce the early days of my transition, drinking at the bars situated between the…
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Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) 2022
Peter Strickland does sad, forlorn gay porn, what's not to love? Once you get over the more provocative aspects, it's truly a tragically relatable glimpse at the fleeting romances that flicker in and out of the queer community at high speed. If it wasn't for the internet's omnipresence these days, I too would probably spend my days wondering what happened to the other girls who never saw me the same way I saw them.
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Sisterhood 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As much as I want to like this, it really runs into one major unfortunate problem: I just don't buy any of the romantic relationships in this movie. It's a crippling bug in what's a genuinely splendid melodrama -- the acting is good, the technical craft on point, and the drama oh-so-tasty. But who on earth would buy the (supposed) romance between Sei and Ling, especially in light of how there's literally no physical intimacy between the two? Like I…
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Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Bond-a-Thon 2025
Last Watched: about ten years ago
7/25And so the first era of James Bond comes to end, sputtering out in the lethargic fashion that will soon become the norm for the next few decades. Connery is back and looking like he's aged like a jug of milk left out in the sun -- only nine years since he started yet looks terrible physically. Even though he's getting paid a record setting paycheck, the man could not be…
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