A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

Allison Williams, a young female attorney, tries to impress her law firm partners in an attempt to make partner with her first big case, but she is jeopardized by the opposing attorney, Derrick Walker, who has been a real jerk in their phone calls and emails . When she meets a really nice guy in her neighborhood and then later connects with him at a destination wedding, she starts to have strong feelings for him, but she will later discover that he is the opposing attorney on this important case. Will love prevail?
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
Endgame not only did not drop the ball, but it delivered for fans so much that it went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time!
The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.
A documentary film about a disabled female athlete who builds courage within herself and seeks faith.
Two movies that do a fantastic job in conveying the ongoing struggle for racial justice are Selma (2014) and Just Mercy (2019).
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.