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.

(He always looks at me with a smile on his face... It doesn't matter if everyone dislikes him. If Reina is here, I don't need anything!) Yamada, a soapland employee who had been spending his days unsatisfied, one day. , I was fascinated by a mannequin I found at a garbage dump! Her beautiful features and outstanding body style made her an ideal woman for Yamada. She eventually names the mannequin "Rena" with her attachment, and Yamada's excessive delusions of her gradually go out of control...
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
Ever heard of the bad boy type? The type of man who's sexy yet broody, or the type of man who’s dangerous but has a sensitive side? It’s a well-known stereotype that women are attracted to villains. The question is: why are we?
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world.
I like discovering something new among the old and Tubi has an assortment of horror films from cinema's past for just such an occasion.
Dracula evolved from a person to a monster and then from a monster to a person.