They’re both lost. The world seems cruel in a dull way, and ambivalent to their desires. Desires that have yet to materialize, and that they do not have words for. They’re looking for something in the way that we’re all looking for something. The funny thing about romance is that it doesn’t really fix that problem, but it does make it seem like less of a burden from time to time.

Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has a fight with her father…

The internet phenomenon of The Backrooms has proven to be alluring because it is a community scrapbook documenting the becoming of a modern graveyard. Kane Parsons’s a24 film adapting this internet cultural object gets into trouble whenever the search for meaning becomes desperate. The pull towards the backrooms is the construction of the liminal maze itself, because the incoherence already speaks to the absurd, implausible chaos of a life. Will Soodik’s script tries to reign things in with analyzing voice-over…

There are so few movies about trans teenagers that making comparisons to other films feels somewhat misguided, but with that lack of robust history, we can come to understand why and how Siobhan McCarthy’s She’s the He functions as a light-hearted deconstruction of movies about teenagers who find themselves in a situation where cross-dressing is necessary. Movies like She’s the Man and Just One of the Guys and the dour Sororoity Boys come to mind. These movies about gender play…

Fire Walk With Me is Laura's (Sheryl Lee) story, but there's one match cut between Laura & Leland (Ray Wise) that deepens the tragedy & presents it as not singular, but generational. At the close of the initial mystery in the Twin Peaks TV show Leland has a conversation with Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle McLachlan) where he talks about being a child & seeing Bob at their old Lake House. At first glance this could simply be Leland covering his tracks as Cooper…