On-screen
The Male Gaze: Objectification in the Narrative World
“We have become so good at seeing our environment—our planet and the people upon it—as a rolling scroll of film.”
We must kill our parents in order to survive: Closet Monster, trauma and imagination
There is no such a thing as emancipation, face it. It’s the New Year and we must give up on fairytales. Or maybe not.
The fortress of many solitudes: Sherlock and the ‘emotional context’
I love BBC’s Sherlock Holmes exactly because he cracked.
‘Atlanta’ is Absurd
Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ proves “there is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
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When The Minutes Tick Away: “The Fits” Film Review
Somewhere along the way I lost count. At some point I just began to…see. Floating maybe, I became totally suspended in the dangerous and eerie world called The Fits. The Fits is a coming-of-age story that follows a 11-year old tomboy, Toni (Royalty Hightower), as she navigates rituals of adolescence in Cincinnati. She migrates from […]
From the Magpie (Real)
Derek Jarman’s eighties disco footage; Laurie Anderson’s dog.
Portrait of a thief, portrait of a lover
On Mistress America & writing about real people.
Why I Loved the “Brooklyn” Sex Scene
1950s Irish immigrant drama? Yes, please.