My, quite a bit has happened.
I'm currently in exile, like the rest of us. I took a
socially distanced trip to the Drive-In and wrote about it, as well as reviewing
The Wretched, a refreshingly brisk horror flick that benefits greatly from both the drive-in setting and the historical moment it arrives in.
I've pivoted into mostly streaming reviews at the moment. A weekly collection of them, in fact. It's going to have
its own post that gets updated each week, because that's just how the world is for the foreseeable future.
I've also got a monthly column in Out and About Nashville called THE SPECIAL SHELF, where I've been reviewing interesting queer cinema.
2019 LGBTQIA+ cinema in review.
Hindi-language musical
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
A double feature in what I like to call NOT IN FRONT OF THE STRAIGHT PEOPLE Cinema:
Midnight Kiss and
You're Killing Me.
Legendary Sundance drama
Urbania.
Get your wig down out of the box, it's
Hedwig and The Angry Inch.
Sultry psychodrama
Devil's Path.
The gorgeous and emotionally devastating cosmic horror
Starfish.
You know it, you love it,
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge! And if you're going to read that, you should read this as well-
a piece I wrote on Elm Street 2 in 2004- I was tapped in from an early place.
A twofer of
Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby and the series
Now Apocalypse.
Brazilian gay post-picaresque
Bathroom Stalls and Parking Lots.
Films Maudits:
Basic Instinct and Cruising.
2019 Pride quartet:
Boom!,
Jeffrey,
Can't Stop The Music, and
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar!
Horror classic
Witchboard.
Chilean psychosexual cinephile drama
Cola De Mono.
And there's also:
Vitalina Varela, a gorgeous and devastating film from Pedro Costa.
The Hunt - the last film I saw in actual theatres before everything went to shit.
Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but
Fantasy Island is an incoherent mess.
The Invisible Man, which is so, so, so good.
Zombi Child, the latest from Bertrand Bonello
The exquisite Georgian queer dance film
And Then We Danced.
A review of the bonkers
VHYes.
Musicwise...
Here's an interview I did with
Susan Ottaviano from synth-pop legends BOOK OF LOVE and
a preshow piece I wrote about the band's legacy.
Jonny Gowow dropped a new single and launched a podcast.
