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  • Magnolia
  • My Girl
  • Palindromes

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  • Muriel's Wedding

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  • Desert Fury

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  • Serial Mom

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  • Nightbitch

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  • Muriel's Wedding

    Muriel's Wedding 1994

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jan 2025

    This was one of the first movies my current partner (of 13 years!!!) made me watch when we first started dating. I already knew he had exquisite taste because we were mutuals on Twitter — and he took me up on my offers to see indie/post-alt-rock band YUCK, indie darling BEIRUT and an invitation to see one of the best gay movies released in the last two decades WEEKEND. If it wasn’t clear, these were 3 different events that took…

  • Desert Fury

    Desert Fury 1947

    ★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

    I always feel like a philistine when I watch movies before 1980 because I have such a hard time placing the film in its historical context. What technology was available? What kind of film are they using? What limitations do they have. That background of the desert looks like a giant painting; that balcony looks like my high school’s Bye Bye Birdie set. With all of that said, I was on a mission to catch the queer subtext of this…

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  • Serial Mom

    Serial Mom 1994

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jan 2025

    Back in the 90s, my mother made me rent Serial Mom when I was 12 and I thank her every day for cultivating my taste so early on. This movie infiltrated my friend group where we would quote this movie for years. We quoted it so much it has imprinted my brain, body and soul. Even to this day, when I encounter those rare moments where my brain goes quiet, I can sometimes hear Kathleen Turner’s, “Oooo wee, oooo wee”…

  • Trick

    Trick 1999

    ★★★½ Watched 04 May 2024

    I remember seeing this movie in Blockbuster on the main wall and the cover just made me feel gross. I was embarrassed to even look at it. At this point in my life, I was a bit of a snob and dealing with my own internal homophobia and had a distain for anything remotely “homosexual.” I was seeking out 80s horror movies, listening to Red House Painters and Hole and looking for indie video stores on Long Island that carried…

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