Tribeca Film Festival 2020 Review: Pray Away

Tribeca Film Festival 2020 Review: Pray Away

The conversion therapy movement, spearheaded by the national organization Exodus International, is a bizarre and upsetting phenomenon ripe for demystification.  That insight arrives in the form of Pray Away, a well-made documentary from director Kristine Solakis.  It...
GameStop the Insanity

GameStop the Insanity

During these trying times we’ve all come to rely, more than ever, on the essential services that keep us fed and healthy.  Supermarkets.  Pharmacies.  Laundromats.  …GameStop?  If you’re hearing a chorus of “One of these things is not like the...
Flagged: The Perils of Being Queer Online

Flagged: The Perils of Being Queer Online

An image of Amp Somers’ boyfriend and co-host, Kristofer Weston, ran afoul of Instagram guidelines. “Your Post Goes Against Our Community Guidelines.”  This message and ones like it have become increasingly familiar to queer people using social media...
Review: Birds of Prey

Review: Birds of Prey

Margot Robie Birds of Prey—which bore the Fiona Apple-esque subtitle And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn before the Warner Bros. suits switched it to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey—is  a fantastic movie.  The trailers had me worried this was...
Review: Black Christmas

Review: Black Christmas

Imogen Poots is Riley in Black Christmas The latest victim of toxic internet backlash, Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas, remakes the classic 1974 horror film for the #MeToo era.  In a society where a groundswell of support has taken down serial abusers like Harvey...