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Ian Thomas Malone

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Ian Thomas Malone is an author, comedian, and podcast host. She earned her B.A. at Boston College in 2013, where she founded The Rock at Boston College and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate University. Ian's treatise The Transgender Manifesto is a bestseller in LGBTQ non-fiction. She has contributed chapters to academic books on James Cameron and Star Trek: Voyager. Ian's debut comedy album, Confessions From My New Vagina, was released in 2021. Since 2019, Ian has hosted the Estradiol Illusions podcast, covering entertainment and LGBTQ issues. Ian resides in Long Beach, California.

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On Swift Horses (2024) 51% “Edgar-Jones masterfully captures the innate struggle of trying to find happiness in a world diametrically opposed to queer joy.” – ianthomasmalone.com Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) 83% “As Helen, Juergensen brings that vital magnetic Type-A Gen X lesbian energy, the kind of force of will destined to stay with someone regardless of what happens to a relationship.” – ianthomasmalone.com Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “Despite a budget of close to 200 million, the MCU has rarely felt smaller than Brave New World, which often feels like an episode of The West Wing without any of the quippy writing or coherent plot progression.” – ianthomasmalone.com Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% “Emilia Perez contains what is very likely the worst song ever written about gender dysphoria, guaranteed to make any trans person regret the life decisions that might cause people to associate themselves with this trainwreck.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% “The shortcomings of Corbet’s storytelling abilities are best apparent through an epilogue tasked with significant heavy lifting for a narrative that had three and a half hours to set up its third act. The Brutalist is a deeply frustrating piece of art.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% “Domingo puts forth what might be the strongest performance of his career.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 85% “Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is not exactly great art, but Fowler deserves a lot of credit for competent blockbuster filmmaking. 3 is a major improvement over the first two.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 94% “Mielants’ work cares little for the theatrics of filmmaking, giving great dignity to the horrors he depicts through his refusal to bend toward sensationalism.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% “Guadagnino delivers an adaptation that captures the essence of Burroughs’ style and elegance, along with all of his shortcomings. Queer is a beautifully empty narrative.” – ianthomasmalone.com Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% “Fiennes’ orbit is a genuinely interesting place to spend time in. The level of detail in the cinematography and set design is so exquisite that you can’t help but wonder why the script wasn’t given the same attention.” – ianthomasmalone.com Nov 25, 2024 Full Review Last Year at Marienbad (1961) 93% “Resnais has a beautiful way of deconstructing reality, challenging the way we think about the world through the romance of desire. As uncomfortable as it is to say, facts don’t really have much business in the realm of love.” – ianthomasmalone.com Nov 8, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% “Rarely does a film plod along with such reckless abandon toward the idea that anyone is supposed to enjoy what they’re watching.” – ianthomasmalone.com Oct 4, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% “My Old Ass is a quietly powerful testament to the importance of living in the moment, time never fully belonging to any one of us. Life waits for no one.” – ianthomasmalone.com Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Platinum Blonde (1931) 78% “Strong performances and a competent showing from Capra are sunk by a meandering screenplay that gives the actors little to work with.” – ianthomasmalone.com Sep 20, 2024 Full Review The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 98% “Dreyer delivers a timeless treatise on the agony of the soul that bristles against the confines of its structure, a film so carefully constructed yet completely raw in its delivery.” – ianthomasmalone.com Sep 9, 2024 Full Review The Queen of My Dreams (2023) 89% “There is a beautiful film to be found in Mizra’s work, but it’s hard to praise her technical skills as a director when her narrative so blatantly holds back from its audience.” – ianthomasmalone.com Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% “Miller’s technical craft is almost always on full display, but Furiosa lacks the sheer spectacle of Fury Road. The film is nearly a half-hour longer, but the action feels smaller.” – ianthomasmalone.com May 30, 2024 Full Review Happy Together (1997) 84% “Wong’s commitment to the tedious nature of his film’s core romance highlights a key pillar of the 90s LGBTQ experience. Many of us know what it’s like to give partners significantly more chances than they deserve.” – ianthomasmalone.com Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Chutney Popcorn (1999) 87% “The film’s greatest triumph is the way Ganatra breaks down seemingly impassable messiness, making an impassioned case for the power of love to persist under the harshest circumstances.” – ianthomasmalone.com Apr 25, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% “Villeneuve spends so much time capturing the feel of Arrakis that he sometimes forgets that the audience needs to feel something toward Paul, perhaps the weakest character among the principal cast.” – ianthomasmalone.com Mar 1, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% “The deafening silence that lies at the core of The Zone of Interest is nauseatingly powerful, an impressive feat of filmmaking within a well-trodden genre.” – ianthomasmalone.com Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Saltburn (2023) 71% “Saltburn is pretty and plenty of its audience will delight in being able to say they were in on the joke whenever the film resurfaces on social media. A viral movie is not necessarily a good movie.” – ianthomasmalone.com Jan 22, 2024 Full Review Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer (2023) 20% “The Dreamer is a lazy victory lap from a man with nothing else of value to offer the world beyond self-congratulatory musings on his own legacy, a lethargic effort aimed solely at fueling the far-right grievance industrial complex for another week.” – ianthomasmalone.com Dec 31, 2023 Full Review Roadblock (1951) “Director Harold Daniels assembles all the pieces of a rich noir thriller, but Roadblock never really builds on its compelling deconstruction of American capitalism.” – ianthomasmalone.com Dec 20, 2023 Full Review Godzilla Minus One (2023) 99% “Godzilla Minus One is a breathtaking tour-de-force for the power of cinema itself, a much-needed reminder of how good it feels to sit in a movie theater when studios actually invest in work that respects the humanity of its audience.” – ianthomasmalone.com Dec 13, 2023 Full Review
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