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.

Gurbanali Bey is a slave of the officials of Tsarist Russia. If they say die, he dies, if they say stay, he stays. After Gurbanali Bey gets drunk at a party, he invites all the guests to his house, but they say that a drunkard has no memory. The Bey, who forgets this, falls into a bad situation and is disgraced...
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
In all actuality, “Just Mercy” should be labeled a “wall punching narrative.” Constantly, the flick throws high forms of adversity our way, amping up our most inner levels of discomfort. Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton wonderfully paces the film in such a way that replicates the slow-burn nature of justice.
The live-action remake brings adventure and shows viewers why representation is important in a Disney Princess movie.
This showcase of Hollywood’s finest talent will certainly be around come awards season, and much deserved
Seeing that the film was essentially his first big, mainstream feature, and with garnering a leading role — portraying the revolutionary ball-player Jackie Robinson — Boseman, without question, delivered a performance that is still so incredibly moving, respectful, genuine, and true to the core of his obviously sincere, artistic heart; and with that, it is indeed so saddening to see him pass.
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.