…dystopian film? A windowless shower room, filled with pre-teen boys stripped down to their underclothes, offers no clue of period or setting. However, the way the boys are treated seems…
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Andrew Neel’s Goat lacks psychological insight
…Neel’s take on the performativity of masculinity is inchoate, with little insight into what drives it and why most the boys aren’t able to break the cycle of toxic masculinity….
Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight
…depicts the car crash that follows as a nightmare in which the boys’ pleasures become a danger: the driver imagines the open road is the ocean, drowning them. Still from…
San Francisco’s Frameline Festival expands understandings of queer cinema
…out stories. But the biggest obstacle to the protagonists’ happiness is the boys themselves — not their parents, friends, or community. Closet Monster Frameline Festival expands understandings of queer cinema….
What to see and what to skip at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF)
…film of the same name, and it shows in the thinness of the plot. It’s the story of a grieving father (Aaron Paul) and his two boys, one always on…
The best documentaries of 2021
…of the best documentaries of 2021. In 2018, a group of twelve young boys from the same soccer team got trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, and a group…