by Mattie Lucas

Cinema from a Decidedly Queer Perspective

Film Review Mattie Lucas Film Review Mattie Lucas

Presence | 2025

A ghostly presence haunts a family's new home in Steven Soderbergh's Presence - but this is in no way a typical haunted house movie. Soderbergh puts the audience directly in the spirit's point of view, drifting in and out of rooms and observing the new family's unfolding conflicts.

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Longlegs | 2024

If movies were defined solely by their marketing campaigns, then Osgood Perkins' Longlegs would easily be one of the best of the year. Movies are quite a bit more than their marketing campaigns, however, and my feelings on Longlegs are much more muted.

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