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Charles O'Grady

@gharlesochady.bsky.social
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Pretty much just posting through it at this point. (he/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈)

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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wrote about the New Trans Wave for Queertrash Weekly. Free to read, free to tell a friend ❤️ queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/breaking-a...
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Breaking All The Rules: a New Trans Cinema Movement
An exciting group of filmmakers are redefining what it means to depict trans identity.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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I WATCHED EVERY RESIDENT EVIL MOVIE
It’s a shame it took them eight goes to make a good movie, but Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is one of the best horrors of the year.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New weekly out now! queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/qt-weekly-...
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QT Weekly #24 movies r weird
By Any Means, Dead Man’s Wire, and a few other loose ends
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
CHOOSE DEATH: The Films of Gregg Araki queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/choose-dea...
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CHOOSE DEATH: The Films of Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki’s new film I WANT YOUR SEX is out in cinemas now. Let’s take a look at his forty year career making movies for homos and freaks.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is the new Ridley Scott movie anything? Can Jacob Elordi act, or is he just tall? Can a good dog save a bad movie? All this and more in the week's Queertrash. queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/qt-weekly-...
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QT Weekly #23 The Return of Gold Coast Shaggy
Is the new Ridley Scott movie... anything? Plus Pablo Trapero’s & Sons and The Whisper Man on Netflix.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/qt-weekly-... New QT Weekly live now!
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QT Weekly #22 Dino Bone(r)s
End of Oak Street, One Night Only, and a few MIFF picks.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I really like the new Charli, and didn't love the new Spider-Man. open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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QT Weekly #20 Spidey XCX
Charli XCX's Music, Fashion, Film, and Spider-Man's Brand New Day.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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QT Weekly #19 Zero Engagement in the Group Chat
The Birthday Trip, Penny Lane is Dead, some trailers, and me sifting through the garbage can of ideology for some actually good Odyssey takes
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
REVIEW: Saccharine (2026), written and directed by Natalie Erika James and starring Midori Frances open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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Big Bertha | Saccharine (2026)
Natalie Erika James' diet culture body horror can't help but make a spectacle of fatness.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
REVIEW: The Odyssey (2026) open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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"I will know what I did worst when I'm home" | The Odyssey (2026)
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey turns one of the oldest stories in the world into a modern masterpiece.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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I WATCHED EVERY EVIL DEAD MOVIE
Open the Necronomicon with me as Evil Dead Burn hits cinemas
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New QT Weekly! open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... New long read about Adrian Chiarella's Leviticus live now.
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"We need fear to survive" | Leviticus (2026)
Adrian Chiarelli's queer religious horror leans into the spectre of homophobia that haunts the church, and healed something in this former Catholic
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... Social Reckoning trailer, plus reviews for Colony, Tuner, and The Death of Robin Hood.
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QT Weekly #16 Zuck my drag right
The Social Reckoning trailer sets up a very different (and worse) kind of film to its decade-defining predecessor. Plus: zombies, heists, and Robin Hood.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New piece up about Disclosure Day: open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... New QT Weekly for ya!
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QT Weekly #15 HR-Man
In his role as He-Man Nicholas Galitzine proves that he indeed is man. Plus, some quick cinema hits and an overdue review of Hoyts' Apex format.
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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
really enjoyed @gharlesochady.bsky.social ‘s latest breakdown of specificity and outsider perspectives in Aus horror and only partly cos it acknowledges my annoyance at Apex naming Eric Bana’s character Tommy queertrashofficial.substack.com/p/qt-weekly-...
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QT Weekly #14 The Most Bloody Rippa Game
Backrooms, Birthright, Apex, and the misrepresentation of Australia in film
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New Fall of Skywalker episode on the shoot for Star Wars episode 9 features the familiar voice of an annoying, bitchy gay robot... No, it's not C3P0, it's me, voicing Anthony Daniels who is very mean to Richard Marquand and much nicer to JJ Abrams than I personally would ever be.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... I really liked Michael Gracey's Better Man and I think more people should watch it. Also I said something nice for once!
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Watch me come undone
HEAR ME OUT: Better Man is Good, Actually
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
If you'd told me a week ago that I'd be recommending The Sheep Detectives over The Devil Wears Prada 2 I would have said: "that makes sense, honestly, the sheep ARE the detectives after all..." open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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QT Weekly #11 take me down to the Raccoon City, where the skin is green and the vibes are shitty
Resident Evil trailer, The Sheep Detectives, 2 Devil 2 Prada
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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I'm startin' with the man in the movie
Michael (2026), and the failure of the musical biopic
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... NEW MUMMY MOVIE HAS NO FUCKING MUMMIES IN IT WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE SAYING IT anyway pls read ❤️
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QT Weekly #9: Hello, Re-animator!
Get to Heaven, The Mummy, and that AI Val Kilmer trailer
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wrote about The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli, and movies about being cancelled for my newsletter. Check out Queertrash Weekly for more! open.substack.com/pub/queertra...
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What's the worst thing you've ever done?
The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli's drama, and cancel culture cinema
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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#5: Hello, Sidney. What's your favourite illegal occupation?
Scream 7, Scary Movie 6, 5 horror-comedies to watch instead, 4 films in cinemas now.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
open.substack.com/pub/queertra... [seinfeld voice] What's the deal with movies???
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#4 (19.2.26) What if a comedy was funny?
Is This Thing On?, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, and streaming comedy recs
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It's so funny to me that I abuse the absolute fuck out of the m-dash in my writing but no one would ever mistake my work for being ChatGPT. The AI simply lacks the vision to use both the word "verisimilitudinous" and the phrase "this shit honks like a clown car in a traffic jam" in the same piece.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
There’s a great exchange in The Grapes Of Wrath where a farmer who’s been kicked off his land by a bank meets the guy getting paid peanuts to take it over. The guy is mewling like “well somebody was gonna do it if I didn’t!” and Steinbeck has such a beautiful, visceral, disdain for the character
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Jeremy Strong is just gonna keep playing real guys in mid biopics til he gets that supporting actor Oscar, huh
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
20 minutes in to writing my notes on the next ep of @goingroguepod.bsky.social and my nose just started bleeding, and I'm not saying it's @tansyg.bsky.social's fault, except yes, I am saying that, Tansy Gardam is trying to kill me.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
ATTN writers. Is there an agreed upon way in written speech (prose or drama) to indicate that a statement or clause ends in a rising inflection? What I mean is, is there an interrobang equivalent I can use that communicates to the Australian tendency to say everything like it's a question?
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Black Mold (2021)
After being abducted and locked in a rotting Scottish castle, a boy starts receiving tweets from a disconnected phone from the killer's (JK Rowling, but shhh) previous harassment victims.

NEVER TALK TO GENDER CRITICS
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New episodes coming soon
New episodes of Spooky Phone:

ROBOT WATCH PORN ALL DAY, LOSE JOB TO BRAIN IN PLASTIC BAG

TECH BILLIONAIRE CHANGE SEX AND START NEW LIFE. IT SPANISH
 MUSICAL.

A.R. GLASSES SHOW YOU WHO IS DUMB. UH OH, IT EVERYBODY!

PODCASTER’S MEMECOIN IS PRIME MINISTER

CYBERTRUCK HAS FEELINGS. YOU FEEL BAD FOR CYBERTRUCK NOW.

APP STOLE YOUR BUTTHOLE

CAR POWERED BY WIFE SUCKING YOUR DICK WHILE YOU DRIVE. WOW! HAPPY ONE.

SEVERANCE RIPOFF BUT WITH THAT TED LASSO ACTOR WITH THE EYEBROWS
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 13/04/2025
I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
a sign with an M on it that is definitely Mario adjacent an upside down m, also known as a "wario symbol"
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
hey was anyone ever gonna fuckin warn me that THIS is what Osmosis Jones looks like?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Tiger Woods is dating Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife, who kept Trump as her last name," I say. Forty-thousand bees descend on me instantly, killing me in seconds. That was the magic sentence, it turns out. The relief is immense.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hey. Focus. The Oscar-winning co-director of NO OTHER LAND was just "lynched" by settlers and abducted by IDF soldiers in the West Bank. This was witnessed first-hand by his co-director.
From @yuval_abraham on Twitter: A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.
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Alex Kealy @alexkealy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Kind of mad that Hamlet's grand plan is to show Claudius a play where someone murders a king so they can marry their wife and then just hope Claudius sort of goes:
Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at himself appearing on television in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
i thought sean baker's speech was really inspiring
Sean Baker: Now that I won an Oscar, I hope they let me make a Green Lantern movie.Sean Baker: He can make anything he wants with his ring. Even a car.Sean Baker: But it's not all fun and games.Sean Baker: He's vulnerable to the color yellow.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/03/2025
here’s how madame web can still win
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/03/2025
The Big Short 2 but it's "here's Dua Lipa to explain the concept of a data centre letter of intent"
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Conan O'Brien looks like the Mario to Elon Musk's Wario.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Love to be looking for a search engine alternative that doesn't use AI and realise I'm reading about it on a website that uses AI to write blog articles for its users. The AI is giving me recommendations for how not to use AI now. I'm gonna walk into the ocean.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 09/02/2025
oh the superbowl? that’s bread and circuses. oscars? bread and circuses. that show you like? sorry that’s bread and circuses. the circus? you know it. do not even get me started on that bread you made dude
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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Krufasa bonus should be up on the Patreon later today but until then please enjoy the things @gharlesochady.bsky.social had to say about it
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
That's not a very nice thing to call James Arthur.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Like not to be this guy, but I'm 30 tomorrow & it really sucks how in many ways the world is appreciably worse than it was when I was 20. In particular, it sucks to remember how much hope I had for the trans community in 2014/15 & the vicious turn anti-trans rhetoric has taken since then.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My favourite part of #Nosferatu was when Feratu hit the NOS button and beat Dom Toretto in the street race, that was sick
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I think I'm #BetterMan pilled?
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Look I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think that if I Saw The TV Glow was the best film in 2024 to capture how it feels to be trans -which it absolutely was - the second best is absolutely, without a doubt, Michael Gracey's #BetterMan.
Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddie (Bridget Lundy-Paine) watch tv together in a dark basement with a green glowing fishtank in the background.Young Robbie Williams (a monkey) and his father Peter Conway watch Frank Sinatra sing on television.
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Charles O'Grady @gharlesochady.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It is in no way a Christmas movie but I often get the urge to rewatch Muppet Treasure Island at Christmas. We taped it to VHS from TV sometime in December so all the ads were Christmassy. I watched that tape so many times it's weird to see the film without ad breaks now.
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