★★★★ Winning over hearts from around the globe during season 14 of mainline RuPaul's Drag Race, Lady Camden "served it to you like a lady" during her run on the series. But how did she get to that point in her career, and what kinds of challenges go into the actual preparing stage of being … Continue reading NewFest 2024: Lady Like
NewFest 2024: Baby
★★★★ It remains frequently astonishing how vital different viewpoints of the queer experience have become across various forms of media. Portuguese-language Baby presents an unvarnished peek into the tumultuous life of a barely-legal gay teenager in Brazil. Where are people supposed to go after being released from a juvenile detention facility when their parents ghost … Continue reading NewFest 2024: Baby
NewFest 2024: Duino
★★★★ An inherent beauty exists in unrequited love. The idea of something that, for whatever reason, cannot happen between two people takes shape in many forms. Rarely has it been depicted in a manner that captures the delicate pain of unresolved emotions. What would happen if the opportunity presented itself, decades later, to maybe see … Continue reading NewFest 2024: Duino
NewFest 2024: Lilies Not for Me
★★★★★ Shining the light on various injustices throughout queer history feels more important now than ever before. Based on historical events, Lilies Not for Me takes us back to the 1920s, where finding a cure for the ailment of homosexuality became a Nobel Prize-winning effort. It would not be until the 1970s much later when … Continue reading NewFest 2024: Lilies Not for Me
TV Review: Heartstopper – Season 3
Alice Oseman's graphic novel series has properly taken off in America after being a raging success in the UK, thanks in large part to the adorably note-perfect adaptation of her prose. If season two was the flowery follow-up to its fairy tale debut, embracing romantic locales with gleeful abandon, then season three of Netflix's irresistible … Continue reading TV Review: Heartstopper – Season 3
TIFF 2024: The Paradise of Thorns
★★★★★ Just mere months ago, same-sex marriage was officially passed in Thailand. Just as with America, the specifications and outer reach of the recognition may take a long while to be properly calibrated legally speaking. How apt that The Paradise of Thorns, somehow the debut feature and subsequent masterpiece of writer/director Boss Kuno, essentially explores … Continue reading TIFF 2024: The Paradise of Thorns
Film Review: The Critic
★★★ (Written by Intern, Sean Barry) The Critic aptly rewards patient viewers by steadily improving in quality as the story progresses. Despite a relatively slow beginning, tensions snowball until its gripping conclusion. A surprising story structure ultimately makes this project more than a simple star vehicle for veteran actor Ian McKellen. Gorgeous period-accurate costumes, sets, … Continue reading Film Review: The Critic
Film Review: Ganymede
★★★★ Ganymede, the latest in a recent uptick of queer horror gems, centers around the age-old concept of the closeted gay teenager. In this case, that translates to wrestling hopeful Lee Fletcher (Jordan Doww), swallowed up by his homosexual tendencies and a deeply religious Christian family that would never accept his differences. Toss in a … Continue reading Film Review: Ganymede
Tribeca 2024: I’m Your Venus
★★★★ As an obsessive fan of all things RuPaul’s Drag Race and FX’s legendary drama series Pose, I am ashamed to say that I still have yet to watch 1990’s acclaimed cult hit, Paris is Burning. The unique documentary broke new ground for telling queer stories, with reverberations in LGBTQIA+ culture still felt to this … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: I’m Your Venus
Tribeca 2024: Rent Free
★★★★ There's nothing quite like an LGBTQIA+ indie gem at any given film festival. This one, co-written and directed by Fernando Andrés, hones in on the platonic best friendship between two men as they attempt to live a full year fleeting from place to place without paying any rent. Aptly titled Rent Free, those who … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Rent Free