Jason Drews
@jasondrews.bsky.social
Film nerd keeping it gay and spooky
https://letterboxd.com/jason77/
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In celebration of the “confirmed bachelor” this Valentine’s Day.
February 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In celebration of the “confirmed bachelor” this Valentine’s Day.
Get yr mind out of the gutter, it’s a turnip.
And to think there was a time the idea of ‘Fine Art photography’ was resisted. Look at this voluptuous root vegetable!
And to think there was a time the idea of ‘Fine Art photography’ was resisted. Look at this voluptuous root vegetable!
February 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Get yr mind out of the gutter, it’s a turnip.
And to think there was a time the idea of ‘Fine Art photography’ was resisted. Look at this voluptuous root vegetable!
And to think there was a time the idea of ‘Fine Art photography’ was resisted. Look at this voluptuous root vegetable!
Great read. The new puritanism and four-quadrant strategy isn't just boring for old perverts like me and bad for films. It's bad for culture and humanity to replace desire with nostalgia.
The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire
The disappearance of the sex scene in American cinema, the suppression of the body under the moral imperative of commodities in neoliberal capitalism, and Verhoeven as antagonizer.
specchioscuro.it
February 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Great read. The new puritanism and four-quadrant strategy isn't just boring for old perverts like me and bad for films. It's bad for culture and humanity to replace desire with nostalgia.
And from an independent record shop, too! If you'd only known how many hours you'd spend in them from then on...
I bought Before The Poison on my way to a first date with this cute boy. Guess @jasondrews.bsky.social was impressed I was a big Marianne Faithfull fan cause 20 years later we’re married.
Go on dates. By physical media. Listen to Marianne Faithfull.
Go on dates. By physical media. Listen to Marianne Faithfull.
January 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And from an independent record shop, too! If you'd only known how many hours you'd spend in them from then on...
I’ve loved her forever. So long, Marianne.
Glad I got to see her on tour in 2002—she was incredible. A true rebel and survivor, her autobiography, Faithfull, is essential reading.
Glad I got to see her on tour in 2002—she was incredible. A true rebel and survivor, her autobiography, Faithfull, is essential reading.
Marianne Faithfull Dead At 78
Marianne Faithfull, the English singer and actress known for hits like “As Tears Go By” and films like The Girl On A Motorcycle, died today at 78, BBC reports. “It is with deep sadness that we announc...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’ve loved her forever. So long, Marianne.
Glad I got to see her on tour in 2002—she was incredible. A true rebel and survivor, her autobiography, Faithfull, is essential reading.
Glad I got to see her on tour in 2002—she was incredible. A true rebel and survivor, her autobiography, Faithfull, is essential reading.
I call that a rave review.
Cinderella Body Horror Movie 'The Ugly Stepsister' Made Someone Vomit at Sundance
It's always a sign of a good horror movie when it's making audiences squirm and even vomit in their seats, and this year's first horror movie to meet
bloody-disgusting.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I call that a rave review.
Are the gay horror gods trying to comfort us with an R-rated, Cher-produced monster movie starring Heather Langenkamp and Barbara Crampton? Could it possibly be as good as all that?
Cher-Produced LITTLE BITES Heads To Shudder This February
The Cher-produced monster horror LITTLE BITES heads to Shudder this February.
www.fangoria.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Are the gay horror gods trying to comfort us with an R-rated, Cher-produced monster movie starring Heather Langenkamp and Barbara Crampton? Could it possibly be as good as all that?
Only a few hours in and we’re already being gaslit with Nazi salutes and Jan 6 insurrectionists called “hostages.”
Not surprising just exhausting.
Not surprising just exhausting.
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Only a few hours in and we’re already being gaslit with Nazi salutes and Jan 6 insurrectionists called “hostages.”
Not surprising just exhausting.
Not surprising just exhausting.
"He was our poet laureate of kitsch, the artist who understood the gleaming artificial surfaces of American life, and their filthy undersides, better than anyone. He loved those surfaces, too, and knew intuitively that dark and light were two sides of the same coin. And he meant it, every time."
The blinding light of love
Underneath the darkness and surrealism, the work of David Lynch contained a pure, earnest belief in beauty and love. He will be missed.
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January 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"He was our poet laureate of kitsch, the artist who understood the gleaming artificial surfaces of American life, and their filthy undersides, better than anyone. He loved those surfaces, too, and knew intuitively that dark and light were two sides of the same coin. And he meant it, every time."
Increasingly melodramatic and ludicrous as they go along, the Airport series is the ideal way to recuperate on the couch.
They don’t call it a cockpit for nothing, honey: Airport—ranked!
The series that invented AND had to catch up with the disaster movie craze. Never respectable, and only got trashier as it went along, as all great franchises should.
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January 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Increasingly melodramatic and ludicrous as they go along, the Airport series is the ideal way to recuperate on the couch.
Been on a killer queers kick, and getting into Mexican auteur Enrique Gómez Vadillo’s wonderfully odd way of applying his queer sensibility to irresponsible storytelling. #filmsky #queerhorror @vinsyn.bsky.social
A ★★★★ review of Death on the Beach (1991)
Homoeroticism and homophobia collide awkwardly but fascinatingly when a repressed, entitled asshole returns from boarding school early after a teacher has been brutally murdered. He’s a dick to everyo...
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December 31, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Been on a killer queers kick, and getting into Mexican auteur Enrique Gómez Vadillo’s wonderfully odd way of applying his queer sensibility to irresponsible storytelling. #filmsky #queerhorror @vinsyn.bsky.social
I love it when @vinsyn.bsky.social brings a new crop of queers, perverts, and satanists home for the holidays.
December 29, 2024 at 8:02 PM
I love it when @vinsyn.bsky.social brings a new crop of queers, perverts, and satanists home for the holidays.
Stanwyck salvages this mean little pre-code with one of her best early performances. Society tries to destroy her for daring to like a guy undeserving of her. So on a whim—a totally offscreen!—she becomes a rich and famous theater star. It's a mess but she dazzles.
A ★★★ review of Shopworn (1932)
“I could cuss when I was six and say ‘no’ when I was fourteen!” An ugly and dreary little pre-code that proves in her prime Barbara Stanwyck could make anything watchable. An exaggeration of the typic...
letterboxd.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Stanwyck salvages this mean little pre-code with one of her best early performances. Society tries to destroy her for daring to like a guy undeserving of her. So on a whim—a totally offscreen!—she becomes a rich and famous theater star. It's a mess but she dazzles.
All I wanted for Christmas was film theory—and I got it! @horrornonna.com #filmsky
December 25, 2024 at 10:05 PM
All I wanted for Christmas was film theory—and I got it! @horrornonna.com #filmsky
Aside from that fun scene of Lukas Gage personifying the “your brain on drugs” commercial, why is everyone into Smile 2? What am I missing?
December 6, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Aside from that fun scene of Lukas Gage personifying the “your brain on drugs” commercial, why is everyone into Smile 2? What am I missing?
December 4, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Warhol’s Kafka. Beautiful weirdos, and a reminder to rewatch The Trial.
December 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Warhol’s Kafka. Beautiful weirdos, and a reminder to rewatch The Trial.
Chose our wedding anniversary to finally convince my husband to watch Possession.
A ★★★★½ review of Possession (1981)
Andrzej Żuławski’s notorious ‘divorce as exhausting horror show’ is a stunner of physical and emotional brutality. And exhibit A for the case that Isabelle Adjani is one of the most powerful performer...
letterboxd.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Chose our wedding anniversary to finally convince my husband to watch Possession.
Psychosexual melodrama so queer that Lizabeth Scott may be the least-gay part of it. John Hodiak lives with his very jealous boyfriend, “Johnny,” who picked him up in Times Square! “I went home with him that night… we were together from then on.”
#filmsky #queersky #queertheory #filmnoir
#filmsky #queersky #queertheory #filmnoir
A ★★★★ review of Desert Fury (1947)
Psychosexual melodrama so queer that Lizabeth Scott may be the least-gay part of it. She has the hots for John Hodiak, who decades ago had an affair with her butch mother (Mary Astor), and he currentl...
letterboxd.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Psychosexual melodrama so queer that Lizabeth Scott may be the least-gay part of it. John Hodiak lives with his very jealous boyfriend, “Johnny,” who picked him up in Times Square! “I went home with him that night… we were together from then on.”
#filmsky #queersky #queertheory #filmnoir
#filmsky #queersky #queertheory #filmnoir
It's oddly comforting to revisit this chosen family of queer kids who've inherited a death sentence and respond with, ‘whatever.’ Surrounded by stupidity and oppression, they have each other, a lot of style, and a fantastic soundtrack.
#filmsky #queersky
#filmsky #queersky
A ★★★★ review of Totally F***ed Up (1993)
“I think the Kamikaze Dildos are playing at The Hellhole.” From this depressing, terrifying, and idiotic new reality we find ourselves in, it's oddly comforting to revisit this chosen family of queer ...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:53 PM