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So this is definitely not how I wanted to start. I had this whole speech I kept trying to give myself all week about how it’s ACTUALLY A GOOD THING that my first recap on my new website is for a show that was already steeped in controversy before it even premiered. But I could…
You know that point in a relationship at which you realize that you cannot live without your other person, and then your mind instantly conjures a horror story in which life shook out a little differently and you never met each other at all? (For example, had I not agreed to help a girl I…
Aimee and Jaguar has been one of my most requested films since Sapphic Cinema’s inception, but it was always my position that it was off-limits. A story concerning Nazi genocide never felt appropriate to a space usually dedicated to humor. But the rules have changed since the election, in a lot of big, obvious ways…
The 2004 British drama My Summer of Love is the most tragically underappreciated movie in the queer film canon. Despite gorgeous cinematography and outstanding performances by its leads (including a young Emily Blunt), MSoL is generally left out of our “oh but have you seen” conversations. There are two factors to blame for this oversight.…
(I have the greatest respect for parents like I have the greatest respect for astronauts because to me it seems terrifying and I cannot relate to wanting to do it at all.) Partner 1: *Gestures vaguely* You know, this is great and everything, but what would make it better is– Partner 2: If someone were…
First of all, obviously, this movie will not be about Donald Trump because there is no Donald Trump in any spritual way, just a bloviating emptiness bound together by spray-tan and cholesterol. The movie will be about the Trump family, because therein lies a Shakespearean drama the likes of which will make for a movie so…
Christmas is over, but it still feels appropriate to be writing about A Christmas Special, Sense8’s return from a yearlong hiatus. For one thing, the special is a little light on the Yuletide, going more for a “year in the life” approach, with a brief stop on Christmas caroling and Nomi in a Rudolph nose.…
Every critic reviewing Star Wars should open with an honest disclosure of the degree to which their heart is accountable to their head. So here is mine: I’m a Star Wars person. I go in wanting to love it. I’m also a Christmas person, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that there is a…
To my dear patrons and readers, I can’t describe the pleasure I feel at returning to recapping. Setting my life to a television schedule imposes a welcome order on my days–it keeps me from becoming unmoored from time like a child on summer vacation. So when I hit the Patreon goal that allowed me to…