I made another short film! You can watch it here.

This one is a light comedy, made with my family during quarantine. My mom & siblings are the stars! This was still an almost no-budget film, but thanks to some help from my dad, we had the use of better equipment this time, and spent more time overall making the film. It took a while to make, and of course given the state of the world right now we faced some…

When things first shut down almost a year ago, I rewatched 20th Century Women and felt like it was one of the very best and most reassuring quarantine films. Now here I am rewatching Beginners and it is just making me miss the world so much.

I'm lucky in that I don't have to grieve anyone right now. I see my parents and siblings and grandma every day, I have close friends I'm in regular contact with, I have hobbies…

Watched the Extended Cut on DVD-- it's a shame Disney has essentially buried this version, just because the ADR for David Tomlinson in the added scenes is janky sometimes. In either format this is a long movie with superfluous sequences, so I absolutely prefer the longer version that leans into the silliness and isn't as concerned with mainstream approval.

This is definitely one where the Nostalgia Goggles are firmly affixed-- this one one of my most reliable favorites as a…

For anyone who's new here or missed a significant prior review: my dad is a pastor and I grew up as a closeted trans girl lesbian in a hardcore Evangelical Christian environment. I never knew anyone who went to a conversion camp but that's probably just because I stayed in the closet until I was an adult and went to a small church. We knew they existed-- they were a topic of conversation, and everyone I knew would have considered…