Category: Recommendations
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So you finished Our Flag Means Death…
What show do you want to obsess over now? So, Our Flag Means Death, unexpected workplace romcom chock-a-block with anachronistic 18th century fun, piracy on the high seas, gay and trans and otherwise genderweird and queer characters, not to mention neurodivergent and disabled ones, is over for at least another year. You’re aching for something of…
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The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy)’s Spit in the Face of Cops and Colonialism
Exploring The Wicker Man’s themes of authority and control on its 50th anniversary. Still from The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy), via FILMGRAB. The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy) is a stalwart classic of the horror genre, and particularly the folk horror subgenre. It was re-released in 4K for its 50th anniversary on…
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Movie Review: Lawn Dogs (1997, dir. John Duigan)
What an interesting fucking film. This review also on Letterboxd. One of the end stills of the film, via IMDb. So like… This is a film from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl who grows up emotionally neglected and isolated in a picture-perfect gated community — having survived a heart transplant, she is in many ways morbid and isolated…
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More gay (or bi) dudes in movies!
Recommendations for more movies featuring men who love men. I already wrote a list of movies (and one or two TV series) in a rec list in 2021, and I’m not going to be repeating any of those recommendations here. There’s fifty feature-length or more pieces of media on the old list, plus three short films!…
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Wearing Waistcoats
Finding waistcoats, choosing a fit, and wearing them. There are a few varieties of waistcoat and vest you might be interested in wearing — a typical modern waistcoat is ordinarily assumed to be part of men’s formalwear, with two front sections that button at the centre or to one side of the abdomen, and a back section. For…
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Fast “Who am I?”: A Fun Game to Play with Friends
A silly fun game to play rapidly with your friends and loved ones in 2023. I thought this would be a fun thing to be my first non-fiction post in 2023 — my boyfriend and I over the Christmas season were, as a lot of people were, playing Heads Up! and also doing the Who am I? stickers…
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I’m just in the mood for a movie with gay (or bi) dudes!
That’s not Call Me By Your Name or Love, Simon or another one that’s been recced to me a hundred times already. Disclaimer: this is not an official rec list of The Best Movies with MLM That You Absolutely Must See! There’s a pretty wide variety to content and tone. Not all the movies I’m going…