Archive for category: Cinema
- So-called “Tom’s Man” (2018.05.23)
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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)
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HAL 9000’s accent was (neutral) Canadian
- Actually viable premise for homosexualist film (2017.09.02)
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“[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)
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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)
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“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)
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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)
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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)
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Is The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq about kidnapping, literature, bodybuilding, boxing, fighting, or hero worship?
- Movies lying about reality (2015.10.20)
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Ask John August: When reality does not fit Syd Field’s three-act structure, reality doesn’t get made into a movie