The film is certainly in bad taste. But the torture here is sort of unremarkable until that final scene. So really, it’s just a lot of bad taste dialogue about sex, boring casting couch segments intercut with a lazily designed torture gimp doing some his thing. 2.8/10
Tag: <span>2000s</span>
Vampire Diary is boring, ugly and a bad example of found footage. There’s one half-decent idea with the vampire pregnancy but even that is undercut by various creative choices. 2.4/10
Low on budget and style, the movie is high on being bad about women. While there is a violent revenge element too, there’s quite a lot of onscreen treatment of women that isn’t exactly fun to see, especially for a film from 2008. 2.2/10
Warriors of Love is a challenging film both in style and substance. For those who have more of an appreciation for slow, European art films, this might be a hidden gem. But for me, this was a film where the creative choices draw too much attention to themselves at expense of the difficult core story. 4.8/10
The gay aspect sets it apart from some other 2000s thrillers, but even then, the 90s erotic thriller boom had already come and gone. Even back in 2003, you could do better than this forgotten sapphic thriller. 3.6
I try not to stereotype nations or national cinema, but this is one of the most classically French movies of all time. All comes second to romantic and sexual passion in Looking For Cheyenne. 5.7/10
If you want to see Milla Jovovich kiss some women, that does technically happen in .45. But it’s infrequent and feels disingenuous when it does happen. And the rest of the movie doesn’t exactly make up for that. 3.5/10
This is a movie I wish I enjoyed more. But sometimes there’s a gulf between watching a movie as a general thing and watching a sapphic movie. Luxurious Bone works as an overall movie. But if you watch it as I did, with a focus towards the sapphic element, the film will likely disappoint. 4.9/10
Gornick’s confidence in centralizing her experiences and thoughts is admirable. But of the three films of hers I’ve seen, Tick Tock Lullaby is the weakest. And after three movies of Gornick’s thoughts, it veers away from highlighting a marginalized voice as it becomes so specifically about Lisa Gornick as a person. 5.0/10
Blue finds itself in the quiet moments, and is happy to linger there and construct this gentle romance and the tragedy that comes with it. 6.9/10