Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Flash Gordon (1980)


Oh how I adored this as a kid when I went to the local twinplex to see it, to my mind then a simple comicbook space adventure about an American football star tasked with saving Earth from an evil intergalactic Emperor Ming...and, well, I still love it having watched it again as an adult but now recognise a strong subtext in what is a kitsch sci-fi full of drag outfits, butch winged S&M costumes, leather underpants, and bizarre rituals involving hands plunging into muddy holes.

★★★★☆

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