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.

In May 2021, an assault reawakened my childhood memories. I decided to go to the United States to find my mother, after 10 years of silence. Meanwhile, Michelle was preparing to leave everything behind to change her life, yet again. What She Do is an intimate, cinematic story shot between the forests of Maine and the mountains of Cantabria in Spain.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
If a movie about a strange and crazy day is commercially successful, why not recycle it and double the kookiness quotient? That seems to be the logic behind this followup to Freaky Friday.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
An analysis on how the Garfield movie fails to represent the characters it is adapting, especially the women, by removing their best characteristics.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
Is Parasite a Horror Movie? Bong Joon-ho, one of South Korea’s parasite horror movies and most prolific filmmakers, decided to grace the world with one of the bizarre and fascinating movies of 2019.