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November 7, 2022

‘This Place’ Review: This Place Finds Home in Trans-Cultural, Trans-National Identity

V. T. Nayani’s film is a stunning exploration of identity following dual protagonists as they carry the weight of their pasts and fall in love.…

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October 22, 2022

TIFF 2022 ‘Something You Said Last Night’ Review: An Annual Family Vacation Worth Treasuring

This story of a trans girl on a family vacation reveals characters and conflicts in quiet moments.…

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September 19, 2022

TIFF 2022 ‘My Policeman’ Review: A Sterilized Tragic Tale of Homophobia and Queer Suffering

This is a film not so much made for queer people than for those who feel the only way to empathize with gay people is to cry about how terribly hard it is for them.…

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June 29, 2022

Waters, Knoxville, and the Beauty of Queer Filth

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.…

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October 1, 2020

NYFF 2020: ‘I Carry You with Me’ Review: Love Across Borders, Decades, and Genres

Heidi Ewing uses fiction and documentary to tell the story of a gay couple in Mexico.…

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August 31, 2020

Fantasia 2020: ‘Don’t Text Back’ Review and Interview with Mariel Sharp, Co-Director and Founder of True Sweetheart Films

An inside look at 'Don't Text Back' with co-director Mariel Sharp.…

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June 26, 2020

The Lesbian Outlaws of ‘Desert Hearts’: Finding a Place for Denied Desire in the 1950s West

‘Desert Hearts’ sets a burgeoning lesbian relationship amidst tropes of the western genre, using natural landscapes and transitory spaces as a backdrop for a romance unwelcomed by the 1950s setting.…

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June 25, 2020

Childhood Friendship and Gender Identity in Céline Sciamma’s ‘Tomboy’

Céline Sciamma celebrates the freedom of adolescence and limits of the gendered body in her second coming-of-age film.…

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April 12, 2020

‘Circus of Books’ Review: An Intimate Portrait of an Explicit Family Business

In a perfectly quirky documentary interweaving family and LGBTQ+ history, Rachel Mason captures what her parents do for a living: run a hardcore gay porn bookstore.…

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August 17, 2019

‘End of the Century Review’: A Powerful and Honest Gay Romance

Lucio Castro’s directorial debut is a powerfully woven gay romance and defined by its modernity. The story Castro chooses to tell could only exist in 2019.…

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