List: MOVIES | Curated by Rani Baker

Feb 25, 2022
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MOVIES
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Why Did Richie Tozier’s Secret Stay Secret? (IT: 2 Spoilers)The choice in what secrets stay secret in this movie are conspicuous.
Sep 10, 2019
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Sep 10, 2019
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“Do Transsexuals Eat Women?” Defanging Trans Horror Tropes.A little over twenty years ago the GENDYS Conference included an unfortunately named presentation called “Do Transsexuals Eat Women?”, by…
Oct 31, 2016
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Oct 31, 2016
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FIGHTERS CLUB: THE MOVIE — A ReviewSo ok I just have to write about this movie that I’m not sure anyone has had a chance to see yet called The Fighting Club. This is sort of…
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017
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Sissy Killer: Silence Of The Lambs’ “Good/Bad Queer” Dynamic (ARCHIVE)(Originally posted on my main website on March 24, 2016.)
Jul 19, 2016
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Jul 19, 2016
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Pathos And Porn — Doris Wishman’s “Let Me Die A Woman”Let’s not kid ourselves, Doris Wishman’s Let Me Die A Woman is porn. But it’s porn with a shocking amount of earnestness and poignancy…
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018
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A Cannibalistic Dissection Of The Rocky Horror Picture ShowA few years ago, FOX aired a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, subtitled Let’s Do The Time Warp Again. I’m not averse to the idea of…
Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018
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Queer Coding Vs Queer Baiting: Two Angles Of Exploitation (ARCHIVE)I remember as a kid watching The Great Mouse Detective in the theater (which would’ve been around 30 years ago this summer).
Oct 26, 2016
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Oct 26, 2016
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‘Glen Or Glenda’ Is Way More Depressing Than I RememberedRewatching Glen Or Glenda, the thing that struck me is what a sad, desperate, and hauntingly earnest film it is.
Sep 30, 2016
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Sep 30, 2016
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In A Bunker Behind The Wall, Waiting For The Worms To ComeTrapped In The Paranoid Totalitarian Fantasy Of A Pompous Manchild
Jul 13, 2016
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Jul 13, 2016
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Stranger Things 3 Is Literally The First Care Bears Movie.Stranger Things is a show about nostalgia, and as such it is a remix and a pastiche of its influences. Even The Care Bears.
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019
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Ghostbusters Did The Opposite Of “Ruin My Childhood” (SPOILERS)So lemme just put this out there: I watched the original Ghostbusters in the theater as an awkward, antsy weird little elementary…
Jul 17, 2016
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Jul 17, 2016
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