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  • Our Flag Means Death Is Sweet Relief for a Weary Fandom

    Our Flag Means Death Is Sweet Relief for a Weary Fandom

    “So I’m very much enjoying this,” I said in a group text to a pair of dear friends as I began to watch Our Flag Means Death for the first time, “and there is some very queer queerness happening. But I just have to know. Do we get something on screen? I cannot get my…


  • Candyman’s Queer Couple Was Haunted by the White Gaze

    Candyman’s Queer Couple Was Haunted by the White Gaze

    In director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, a new generation of Chicagoans finds themselves in a gentrified Cabrini-Green that bears little resemblance to the neighbourhood in Bernard Rose’s 1992 film of the same name — which is still being terrorised by the titular hook-handed, vengeful spirit. Most everyone knows (on some level) that to speak the ghoul’s…