DESKTOP SOUNDS explores the uses of non-musical sounds in a range of desktop films from the past decade.
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is a beautiful, poignant, enraging, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking film about the trauma and harm conversion therapy inflicts on young queer people. Even though its classification as horror holds, the emotional bond between the two main characters, Naim and Ryan, elevates the story into a realistic romantic drama on par with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
If you are a discerning movie watcher and/or an African-American with a modicum of Black consciousness, this film isn’t for you. It would be better to watch the documentary ‘They Fight’ to see the impactful, emotional story of Walter Manigan and the young men of DC’s Ward 8.
In 'Maestro,' we're left with an impression but not with an understanding of the main character.
'An American Werewolf in London' possesses a possible queer reading in the way it envisions a heterosexual romance being undone by the presence of a creature who embodies self-contentment in the face of social alienation.
An animated reboot based on the book of the same name, with differences from the live-action movie of the same name.
This coming-of-age movie discusses immigration issues in the United States through the eyes of two exchange students in Brazil.
