Archive for category: Media Review

A kid like Jake

Claire D October 27, 2020 Media Review 0

#5 – Films in the category of Transgender A kid like Jake (2008) Director: Silas Howard Screenwriter: Daniel Pearle Starring: Claire Danes Romeo & Juliet, Homeland, Jim Parsons The Big Bang Theory, Priyanka Chopra Quantico, Amy Landecker Transparent, Ann Dowd The Handma...

Breakfast on Pluto

SophieFR June 26, 2020 Media Review 1

#4 – Films in the category of Transgender After being caught wearing his step mother’s dress, shoes and lipstick, Patrick is given a bath. She angrily tells him, ‘I’ll march you up and down the street and disgrace you in front of the whole town’, in defiance he ...

Media Review:- Transamerica

SophieFR May 22, 2020 Media Review 4

#3 – Films in the category of Transgender Bree, a pre-op transgender woman learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. She flies to New York to release him from jail and together they set off on an unexpected road trip to her m...

Media Review:- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

SophieFR May 1, 2020 Media Review 3

#2 – Films in the category of Trangender Before Hedwig can marry a G.I. to escape East Berlin and flee to the West, there is a small legal requirement before the wedding can be take place. He must undergo sexual reassignment surgery! Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Direc...

Film Review:- Normal

SophieFR April 2, 2020 Media Review 7

After 25 years of marriage, Roy breaks the news to his wife that he has always been a woman living in a man’s body and wants to transition #1- Films in the category of Transgender Normal (2003) Director: Jane Anderson Written by: Jane Anderson Starring: Tom Wilkinson and Jessic...

Media Review: And now for this century…

Michelle Liefde January 31, 2020 Media Review 9

It has been close to a year that Captain Dionysus asked me to help work on a project that would give inspiration by reviewing books, films, poems, music, plays, etc. containing Transgender or Crossdressing themes, characters, and actors. As the very first article gave its best at...

Media Review: Girl Crush – Little Big Town

Jaime Parris November 22, 2019 Media Review 1

I have been a fan of Little Big Town for a long time. I describe this band to my friends, who don’t listen to country music, as sounding like “ABBA with twang.” In 2015, they released a very popular and controversial song. Girl Crush is a song about woman who is jealous of ...

Media Review: “A Fantastic Woman”

Jaime Parris November 15, 2019 Media Review 2

A woman is walking along the sidewalk on a windy day. The wind begins blowing stronger and stronger until its fierce enough to blow her away. Yet, she continues to walk defiantly against the wind. She leans forward against the impermeable gusts of wind. That scene summarized the ...

Media Review: Sense8: The Wachowskis’ Sense of Community

Jaime Parris November 8, 2019 Media Review 1

Sometimes, when you come across a TV series so ambitious, you doubt that they can pull it off. I had an experience like this before with How I Met Your Mother. I wanted to see this, because I was a huge Buffy fan and it starred Alyson Hannigan. It also starred Doogie Howser. Afte...

Media Review: Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jaime Parris November 1, 2019 Media Review 2

Whatever happened to Fay Wray? That delicate satin draped frame As it clung to her thigh How I started to cry Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same – Dr. Frank-N-Furter ”Rose Tint My World” I want to thank Michelle Liefde for giving me really good insight...