Kyle Turner: Film Writer // Not a Golem

Lost in an idealogical leather bar. I'm relieved to know that I'm not a golem. Writer/film bb/queer/sissy sophisticate.

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Bad Romance: 'Midnight Kiss' as Post-Marriage Equality Horror // BW/DR

Midnight Kiss is a horror film for the age of Mayor Pete, imagining a self-cultivated gay emptiness at the turn of the decade.

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Netflix's 'Don’t F**k with Cats' asks: Who's watching me watching you? // Inverse

The grisly new docu-series reveals the voyeuristic prism the internet has become.

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Perspective | The Oscars love mediocrity. That’s why ‘Joker’ got 11 nominations. // The Washington Post

It is precisely the kind of movie that the Oscars exist to celebrate, a middlebrow film that encourages middlebrow viewers to think of themselves as thoughtful consumers of elevated entertainment.

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Yellow Faced Laughs // Medium

I think your “ScarJo is Asian” jokes are stupid

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How 'Black Mirror' reflects a decade of dating, desire, and technology // Inverse

From ghosting to cyber-sex to swiping right, it's all here.

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You Could Be a Font: 19 from 2019 // I Like Things That Look Like Mistakes

Another year, another couple homewrecked, another layer of calcification, another foot away in ironic distance, I mean, another foot into my obsession with Stephen Sondheim’s Company. But you…

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Being Alive in 2019: The Year Sondheim Saturated Pop Culture // Paste Magazine

Stephen Sondheim, alive at 89, has strangely haunted pop culture this year.

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With Dark Waters, Todd Haynes Goes Home Again // Paste Magazine

Even with his latest film, the whistleblower thriller "Dark Waters"—which has been accused of being not very Todd Haynes-y—everything comes back home.

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Why Is Stephen Sondheim Karaoke in All Our Movies Now? // Vulture

Noah Baumbach, Rian Johnson, and Todd Phillips (well, his music supervisor) explain.

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Netflix's 'Marriage Story' Proves We Love Watching Couples Fight // GQ

Adam Driver yelling? Sign us up.

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Goodbye to All That: Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” // Medium

The next supposed “great work” about Gay New York starts but never begins

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Towards an Idea of a Cinema of Pete Buttigieg // Medium

An idea of what a canon of Mayor “Petite Bourgeois” might look like

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Everyone and Everything Is a Performance in Bong Joon-ho's Absurdist Parasite // Paste Magazine

For 'Parasite', Bong is no less interested in inequality’s consequences compared to his earlier films, but here he sees how class as performance manifests, particularly when people are plucked from one echelon of society and put in another.

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Pete Valenti And Manning Jordan Want To Set You Up—And Make You Laugh

Their podcast is a very 2019 version of finding love

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Why Does Stand-Up Comedy in Movies Always Suck? // GQ

In 'Joker,' Arthur Fleck bombs hard, carrying on a proud tradition of shitty cinematic joke-telling.

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The Beautiful Mess of The Goldfinch // Paste Magazine

Wrecked by bad reviews, 'The Goldfinch' is clearly a mess. But what if it's a beautiful one? What if all that mess has meaning?

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Cubic Zirconia Are Forever: The Authenticity of Ocean's Eight's Fakeness // Paste Magazine

With 'Hustlers' in theaters, Kyle Turner remembers a similar con that deserves some reassessing: 'Ocean's 8'.