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Strange World 2022
Future lost media. With the way things are going, feels unlikely that a major movie studio would take a political risk like this again. A kids movie about a queer character breaking the shackles of energy dependence, reseting society. The gay moments are small, easy to edit out. But this depicts queerness as unremarkable, no one bats eye. This will save lives.
The ideas are cool, the story’s whatever. But this has me mourning rainbow capitalism, even if the representation…
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Wigstock: The Movie 1995
Joyous filmmaking, as carefree and lively as a party with friends. Dishes up the absurdity and glamour that only drag queens can provide. The performances are electrifying, sometimes melancholy, always committed to surprising or bewitching us. Yet there is a bittersweet urgency here, a forceful reminder that gay and trans people have always existed and will thrive on their own terms forever. This is utopia.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
As suffocating as the closet, inhaling nothing but dead skin cells. But in its oblivion I Saw the TV Glow finds its heartbeat, pain reminding the brain it's alive. This feels just down the block from We're All Going to the World's Fair, the numbness ripped away, open wound remaining. Capturing the feeling of wrongness that so many LGBTQ+ people find themselves with, slivers of light found in binge watching and Internet holes. Those digital/analog odysseys offer a place for…
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