Is Jo March Queer?

I’d been waiting for Little Women since I heard the whispers of it in 2018. Seeing it on Boxing Day 2019 with my sister and best friend was an experience – I balled my eyes out as the credits rolled. I love the domesticity, the sister spats, the all-star cast. But most of all I…

Stranger Things 3: The Lesbian and the Gay

(This is an excerpt from Strangers Things Season 3 Sucks on the so-called LGBTQ+ representation in the show. I’ve separated it as I like to highlight my LGBTQ+ rants.) The Lesbian and the Gay Shows nowadays throw in LGBTQ+ characters for the sake of it, and most of the time it’s a sexuality coming out…

Stranger Things 3 Sucks

Introduction My friend and I binged watched the whole of Stranger Things 3 in one day. We started off excited and optimistic and ended with utter disappointment. As each episode rolled on, we had a niggling feeling this season was not like the others and it grew into a hatred that we have channelled into…

2019 Films So Far – Short Reviews

Can You Ever Forgive Me This biopic was enjoyable because it was just refreshing to see a queer woman committing crime to make ends meet rather than it being another dramatic heist film with guns and diamonds. Not that there is anything wrong with them films, it’s just nice to see a film where in…

Colette: More Doc than Drama

I was quite optimistic when going to see Colette, a biopic based upon the revolutionary life of the queer French novelist and actress. Seeing a film about the life of a queer women excited me, cause God knows we lack LGBTQ+ narratives, but I was left feeling dissatisfied. The film feels more like a documentary…

The Bisexual

The Bisexual – Episode 1 When I saw The Bisexual advertised my queer soul leaped in excitement. Representation for bisexual narratives is horrendous (most LGBTQ+ content is sadly). They’re shown as being greedy, disloyal, confused, promiscuous and so much other problematic crap that manifests into biphobia within the world and the LGBTQ+ community. The term bisexual is…

La Casa de los Tropos

The House of Flowers (La Casa de las Flores) is a Mexican telenovela following the upper-class de la Mora family who own a successful flower shop. It had been on my watch-list for a while as it’d been recommended for people who love Jane the Virgin (WHICH I DO) and I heard it had some…

The Hate U Give Film vs Book

The Hate U Give is an amazing YA novel written by Angie Thomas that follows 16-year-old Starr Carter who witnesses the police shooting of her childhood friend. It was number one on The New York Times YA best seller list for more than 50 weeks and won numerous awards. Naturally it was made into a…

An Average Love Story

(Spoilers ahead for Love, Simon) Love, Simon has received a lot of praise because it’s the only gay rom com made by a major Hollywood studio (20thCentury Fox). It’s a mainstream film normalising a queer character -it’s been called a ‘breakthrough’ and ‘revolutionary’. But is it really? The main character, Simon, is the straightest gay…

BlacKkKlansman – Fact or Fiction

As a white person, I enjoyed this film. As a white person, I know jack shit about racism. And from reading reviews by African-American people, and more informed critics, this film isn’t as amazing as I thought it was when I left Cineworld. God damn, I was looking forward to writing a positive review! I…