I was lucky enough to catch a preview screening of Young Hearts as the closing film at a queer film festival, and was amazed! A year prior, I saw Lukas Dhont's Close. I am sure, like many who have seen that film, you might have been caught off guard by that "twist" halfway through, where the film changes directions. I am happy to say Young Hearts, directed by the Close director's friend, Anthony Schatteman, doesn't have that. Infant, I'll say…

A movie which I bought as a blind buy through Altered Innocence, after hearing a podcast interview with the founder of the label and how he hand picks all the films he chose to distribute. I'm glad I did. Money not wasted, as the visual storytelling kept me captivated through out watching this special film.

The film begins with an unexpected animated mouse (a kind of F U to Disney, as our main protagonist is a 12yo by name Mickey)…

Fuck this a good movie! Man I wished I saw this a decade ago in theaters when it first came out it would have been epic! I when this movie came out and thought it would be stupid, here is another movie based on the Bible trying to pannier to the known religious audience, while the devoteds are going to criticize it for not being "accurate" I thought. And nothing can live up the the original with Charleston Heston…

The film not only launched Tarantino into the mainstream of pop culture in America - although he had already released Reservoir Dogs a few years earlier - but also paved the way for indie films (previously reserved for underground art-house cinemas) to reach the mainstream audiences in multiplexes.

Like many up-and-coming Hollywood directors of the 2000s who got their start in the 90s American In independent cinema, Tarantino’s early films are his best, as they were made before he had…