I want to say nice things about Andrew Durham’s Fairyland because it gives us an overview of queer culture in San Francisco in the 70s to 90s, a pivotal time.
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Fremont (2023)
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I loved Babak Jalali’s Radio Dreams (2016), and he doesn’t disappoint with the tonally very different but just as meticulous Fremont.
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On the surface, this is a story of a woman trying to leave an abusive marriage, but it shines a light on the insidiousness of domestic violence and its roots in patriarchy.
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingAnatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une Chute) (2023)
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Lesson one: don’t watch a 2 1/2 hour slow French film at 9:30 pm at night at the Comedy Theatre.
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That an IMDb user gave this one star and called it “an LGBTQ+ movie disguised as a sci-fi” makes me like it even more.
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
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My mum was politically conservative. She and my dad were Liberal voters but I still remember the yellow triangular No Dams sticker on her car.
Continue readingThe Lost City of Melbourne (2022)
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A gentle love letter to Melbourne that will make you look up with a new appreciation of what you probably walk past every day.
Continue readingOldboy (올드보이) (2003)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting from Oldboy but I didn’t think it would be quite so hard to watch.
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