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.

Zalamero (Flattering) is, among other things, a summer movie about Martin's summer. Martin wants it all; all the girls, all the boys, all the sun hours, all the nights, all colors T-shirts. He wants to be the main character of all summers. Why decide just for a thing? OMG, Flattering boy, you want it all.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
For viewers who love eating burgers, shakes and fries on the go along with a tasty side of nostalgia.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.
In this remake of the 1993 film of the same name, The Wedding Banquet follows the life of two queer couples as they struggle with life-changing decisions.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.