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Still from 'Queens of Drama' by Alexis Langlois

All You Need is Love and Queerpop: ‘Queens of Drama’ (2024) by Alexis Langlois

Reviews - Olivia Popp - 12 June 2025

XPOSED 2025: The French filmmaker soars to beautifully chaotic, queer, campy heights with this festival favourite about two star-crossed lovers looking down the barrel of the music industry’s straight and conformist gun.

A still from 'Fucktoys' by Annapurna Sriram

Sex Work, Yassified and Empowered: ‘Fucktoys’ (2025) by Annapurna Sriram

Reviews - Olivia Popp - 18 March 2025

SXSW 2025: In her self-described “bubblegum grindhouse” feature, the Nashville-born actor turned writer-director creates a stylistically compelling, even if at times slightly too plotless, sex work-cum-road movie comedy.