Veronica Phillips muses on her relationship with John Waters and Johnny Knoxville, as they form the three vertices of a filthy, queer love triangle within marvelously depraved cinematic world.…
« read »The evident influence of the Tobe Hooper classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' creates a layer of unease, but the true terror of 'X' comes from its voyeuristic nature. …
« read »Agnès Varda’s ‘Vagabond,’ a cinematic portrait of a female drifter, is driven by the actions of those whose unrealistic desires go unfulfilled.…
« read »In the year’s two best films (so far), giant red pandas and infinite multiverses make way for expertly delivered themes on generational divides and finding one’s identity. …
« read »‘Everything Everywhere All At Once' explores the grief of my lesbian identity remaining unrecognized by my mother.…
« read »The queer pirate rom-com’s main antagonist perfectly encapsulates the struggles of contemporary queer fiction to carve and preserve a space of its own in heteronormative media.…
« read »‘Lost Highway’ explores many of Lynch’s well-known idiosyncrasies and thematic and visual obsessions.…
« read »Mimi Cave’s genre-bending feature film debut ‘Fresh’ perfectly captures patriarchal violence but fails to provide an equally subversive argument about the issue.…
« read »Alongside its arthouse dramas and dark fantasy films, Norway has, since 2015, also produced disaster movies on a scale that both replicates and rivals Hollywood’s end-of-the-world fare.…
« read »There is no greater perfectionist in the world of film than Hideaki Anno. In revisions, 'Evangelion' evolved to become the seminal work it’s known as today.…
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