Tom Blyth

Plainclothes is a quiet and devastating tale of queer shame in the 90s: Sundance Film Festival Review

Audiences today, specifically modern queer audiences, may not quite understand the gravity of shame and fear expressed throughout Plainclothes, a 90s-set drama that sets itself around the gay cruising scene that honed a far-more secretive temperament than what is experienced today. By no means is Carmen Emmi‘s enveloping film an alienating experience, but freedom in…

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Film Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a prequel that asks more questions than it can answer

If you’ve read any (or all) of the Hunger Games novels or seen the films then you’re likely to have a specific view on one Coriolanus Snow.  But the presidential position (and villainous temperament) the character held in the original trilogy of novels, and later quartet of films as played by Donald Sutherland, is far…

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