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Midnight Blue: Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition 2016

Watched by Rhys 14 May 2022

Logging for Vol 2: Porn Stars of the 70s
Man Hunt 1941

★★½ Watched by Rhys 11 May 2022

Has an opening sequence that's impossible to follow- set prior to the invasion of Poland as a figure in a ludicourous gentlemen hunter suit lays with his cross hairs aimed dead at the Fuhrer and a click with no bullet loaded. An unloaded gun and a bullet comes packed with motif; at the time this was released the United States had yet to enter the war and reflects not only that reluctancy but also the class privileges within wartime as…

RRR 2022

★★★★½ Watched by Rhys 25 Mar 2022 1

Wish all blockbuster screenings had this energy- simply explosive sold out Imax- audience whistling and cheering as our heroes fucked up British colonialists. Simply exhilirating experience.
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker 2020

★★★½ Watched by Rhys 08 Jul 2021

I'd been cautious about viewing this documentary- Wojnarowicz's writing, art, activism and life has been incredibly influential to me and as we see the world through another plague and government's hostile treatment towards minorities, botched vaccination rollout the rallying cry 'health care is a human right' reverberates again, juxtaposed by the corporatisation of queer identity as police lead 'pride' marches, Drag show contestants shed crocodile tears for past racist acts and in the recent Keith Haring/Basquiat exhibition the NGV whereupon…