Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “She Is Conann” — A Sapphic Tragedy Through and For the Ages

February 2, 2024
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Bertrand Mandico’s “She is Conann” left me buzzing, high on a euphoria of aesthetic excess that represents the true legacy of New Queer Cinema.

Film Review: “Suitable Flesh” — Pretty on the Inside

January 19, 2024
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For all of “Suitable Flesh”’s indulgence in B-movie schlock and gross-out gore, the film’s pulsating sexuality becomes its strongest asset.

Film Review: “The Boy and the Heron” — How Do You Live?

December 5, 2023
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“The Boy and the Heron” is a work of true beauty that fits squarely within veteran director Hayao Miyazaki’s gorgeous and emotionally resonant oeuvre

Film Review: “Cade: The Tortured Crossing” — The Weird Uncle Crankery of Neil Breen

November 25, 2023
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Simply put, there’s nothing (and no one) out there quite like what Neil Breen is putting out into the world, and for that alone, we should be grateful.

Film Review: “Mami Wata” – The Way of Water

October 11, 2023
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“Mami Wata” beautifully cracks open a world Western eyes either blatantly ignore or seldom get to experience on screen.

Film Review: “My Animal” — The Beast Within

September 22, 2023
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In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.

Film Review: “Bad Things” – Two Star Hotel

August 23, 2023
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Billed as a queer woman’s spin on “The Shining,” “Bad Things” is a much more entertaining film in concept than it is in execution.

Film Review: “Lynch/Oz” — The Man Behind the Curtain

July 13, 2023
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Without “The Wizard of Oz,” it’s entirely possible that the David Lynch we know and love wouldn’t exist.

Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

Film Interview: Director Ryan Stevens Harris on Cultivating a “Moon Garden”

May 19, 2023
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Director Ryan Stevens Harris talks about his stunningly cinematic home-grown labor of love, Moon Garden.

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