Boy Movies #1

An introduction, and an ode to Top Gun: Maverick

Hello and welcome to the inaugural issue of Boy Movies, a space where I will finally make good on something I’ve been threatening to do for years and go long on one of my favorite topics of all time: movies for boys.

Until now, my thoughts on boy movies have lived almost exclusively in silly tweets and pithy, semi-frequent “reviews” on Letterboxd, a platform I am addicted to. While Letterboxd is good for many things (reminding me of the fact that I have logged twenty Zac Efron films, for example), I feel a sense of crushing humiliation every time I make a post that exceeds ten words, or, god forbid, verges on earnestness. But I am long-winded by nature, and these thoughts must go somewhere, and I’ve always dreamed of running a small business that, fingers crossed, someday gets bought out by Disney, so here we are.

At the urging of my unpaid producer and close personal colleague Sarah¹, I decided to see how far I could take a goofy idea: What if I, a girlie, watched boy movies and wrote a…