• Milk

    Milk

    ★★★★½

    movie night w/ mom, her choice #ally 🏳️‍🌈

  • Brokeback Mountain

    Brokeback Mountain

    ★★★★★

    rewatched for heath’s heavenly birthday <3

  • Angels in America

    Angels in America

    ★★★★★

    “i try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, i try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then i see someone i want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and i know i’m losing.”

    i first learned what AIDS was in my eighth grade health class, during a unit on STDs. we learned its history, its symptoms, its causes, its prognosis, and who it affected - “homosexuals and addicts.”…

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    ★★★★★

    really sad to realize that we’re still fighting a lot of the same fights we were fighting 46 years ago. the more things change, the more they really do stay the same i guess - the work never stops.

    anyway i love harvey milk and i love being queer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★★

    i didn’t know if i even needed to write something like this or if i owed anyone an “explanation” for me or my ever-evolving sexuality, but given that i’ve shared Literally Everything Else About My Entire Life on this app (and given that a lot of people - and young queer people especially - often read my words and long-winded examinations of all my varied lived experiences and resonate with them, which makes me feel more honored than i’ll ever…

  • Bottoms

    Bottoms

    ★★★★★

    emma seligman could do citizen kane but orson welles couldn’t do bottoms

  • Bottoms

    Bottoms

    ★★★★★

    EMMA SELIGMAN IS THE FUTURE OF FILM

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    ★★★★

    essential chaotic bisexual cinema

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★★

    This movie is still a masterpiece but Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, and Ruby Cruz showed up beforehand to premiere the Bottoms trailer for us and now that’s all I’ll be thinking about until the end of time

  • Blue Jean

    Blue Jean

    ★★★★

    An truly dynamite debut - makes familiar subject matter feel fresh again thanks to Georgia Oakley’s crisp and clear artistic vision (the direction and shot composition in this are genuinely breathtaking) and Rosy McEwen’s frankly perfect performance, undeniably one of the best of the year so far.

    2023 Ranked

  • Lingua Franca

    Lingua Franca

    ★★★★

    I love Isabel Sandoval and the way she sees the world so so so much. When I first watched this film during the pandemic, I was still in the closet, and lemme just say it hits a lot harder after one year on HRT and one year of experiencing life, love, and ~everything else~ as a trans woman. I love that Isabel has total tonal control over the film at all times (as the star, writer, director, producer, and editor)…

  • Monica

    Monica

    ★★★★½

    Monica is a marvel. Few films have so compassionately captured the everyday exhaustion of a trans existence, and that’s while simultaneously surveying the storminess of familial relations post-transition with striking sincerity. As our lead, Trace Lysette is luminous - a revelation. If there’s any justice, her tender, towering turn will have a place in this year’s awards race.

    2023 Ranked