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All of Us Strangers 2023
“I should have relished you driving me bananas”
Finally, I sat down to watch this film who a friend had seen at a queer cinema and mentioned that simply seeing the trailer afterwards made him tear up.
Wow, just, wow. I cried 6 times watching this movie, no exaggeration, ugly crying each time. As a gay man, this film struck so many nerves with me. Andrew Scott acts his ass off in this movie and neither he or the film…
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Queer 2024
Respectfully I don’t understand filling gay characters with straight actors, but beyond this I would say that the biggest challenge of this film is not having the context of William S. Burroughs to relate the experiences to. Maybe a little pretext would have been good, a little framing as to why he is in Mexico in the first place. There are so many references to his life and book that just don’t make any sense without his life story in…
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Wicked 2024
This review comes strictly from someone who has not dabbled in the world of oz or for that matter in Wicked in any of its iterative presentations.
In my honest opinion, Cynthia Erivo absolutely blew this one out of the park. “The Wizard and I“ and obviously “Defying Gravity” stood out from her performances for me. But greater than that, the story came across to me as a story of the plight of black women in our society; I think…
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Anora 2024
I was deceived by the movie description, along with I believe many others, who believed this film would be either a rom com, perhaps red herring’ed by the “love story” “Cinderella story” descriptors. But what Anora pulled out was a genuinely funny and original film - yes, I think it pulled out more laughs in the theatre than any comedy I’ve seen - and at times borders a line between discomfort and laughter. It can be sad, but it never…
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