Archive for category: Cinema

So-called “Tom’s Man”    (2018.05.23)

A “Tom’s Man” is not a straight, a transgender, a female, or, in all likelihood, an epicene Gaysian. We know that because Touko Laaksonen drew them for us

Canadian English accent (from nowhere)    (2018.04.01)

HAL 9000’s accent was (neutral) Canadian

Actually viable premise for homosexualist film    (2017.09.02)

“[S]he ends up on the run with gay actor who becomes like the action star he plays in the films”

»Das Ende von Eddy«    (2017.07.30)

A Victorian novel about a poor sissy who doesn’t even have the Internet in the 21st century does what, and exists why, though?

“Muddled masculine thinking”    (2017.06.24)

“A feminist world, 2091: Women dominate society, partially through selection of girl babies. Twentieth-century science is discredited as male arrogance. Warnings about repository are dismissed as another example of muddled masculine thinking.” Aren’t we there already‽

Who can play Tom of Finland in the movie    (2016.05.22)

Well, the actual issue is who would play Tom of Finland’s idealized male form. And that would be Jon Bernthal, not that it will happen

What is ‘Snowpiercer’ about?    (2016.05.14)

Snowpiercer is a totalizing visual obsession with returning one’s gaze to the symmetrical features of, the gleaming blue eyes of, every bristle of hair on Chris Evans, a timeless Hollywood masculine archetype

Hero worship    (2016.01.22)

Is The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq about kidnapping, literature, bodybuilding, boxing, fighting, or hero worship?

Movies lying about reality    (2015.10.20)

Ask John August: When reality does not fit Syd Field’s three-act structure, reality doesn’t get made into a movie