Results for: Feel good
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The Mattachine Family Tells The Story Of A Very Specific Type Of Family
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer no lesbians in a movie to lesbians who only exist as stereotypes.
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20 Years Later, “Thirteen” (2003) Should Be In the Queer Girl Coming-of-Age Canon
Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.
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“How to Have Sex” Shows the Contradictions of Youth
Every moment of the film holds possibility — for better or worse.
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“Going to Mars” Is the Queer Black Women’s Triumph That Nikki Giovanni Deserves
Nikki Giovanni so loves Black women that she never waivers that our strength can only be matched by the stars themselves.
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Queerleading Drama ‘Backspot’ Captures Girlhood in All Its Extremes
Cheerleading is a sport full of contradictions and paradoxes, and Backspot explores that well.
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Spoiler Alert: Dutch Threesome Film “Happy Ending” Ended Badly
The movie has great queer sex scenes but falls flat in terms of characters.
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In “Caged” (1950) Lesbianism Is More Than Another Cruel and Unusual Punishment
When the options are be beholden to the state — or, if lucky, to a man — or live a luxurious life of crime, who wouldn’t become a lesbian?
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Sundance 2024: “Sebastian” Fails in Its Self-Critique of a Gay Sex Work Story
Sex work as a topic is not enough to make a story interesting.
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Hulu’s ‘Prom Dates’ Tries to Be ‘Superbad’ for Queer Girls
While I had higher hopes overall for a screenwriter who says they “spend most of their time being gay,” Hannah’s coming out storyline is done well.
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Scream VI Review: Why Do Y’all Keep Picking Up The Phone?!
Scream VI is as queer as you were hoping it would be! Jump scares and gay smooching, let’s go!
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Attention Lesbians! “Wingwomen” on Netflix Is like French Charlie’s Angels but Gayer
If you want a movie where hot women fight men while celebrating chosen family then you’re going to love this.
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“The Hours” Welcomed Me Into a Lineage of Sapphic Suffering
I watch The Hours whenever I’m sad.
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Sundance 2024: “Ponyboi” Is a Crime Drama with Cowboys, Springsteen, and an Intersex Lead
Reminiscent of the Wachowskis’ Bound, Ponyboi is a queer cinema genre pastiche that understands a movie can be artful, emotional, and incredibly entertaining.
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Billy Eichner’s Gay Rom-Com “Bros” Isn’t Revolutionary But It Is Hilarious
Straight rom-coms aren’t expected to properly evoke Marsha P. Johnson and gay romcoms shouldn’t have to either — of course, it helps that straight romcoms don’t try.
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I’ll Spend This Entire Weekend Thinking About That One Scene From “The Marvels”
There’s the kind of gay you can see, and the kind of gay you can touch, and then there’s the kind of gay that you just know.
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“Moving On” Is a Traumatic Farce Elevated By Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda
Watching Fonda and Tomlin perform is like watching an Olympic athlete or a world-renowned ballerina. They are masters of their craft and it’s awe-inspiring to witness.
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“Poor Things” and the Monsters We Know
From the very beginning, Bella’s freedom was dependent on her ability to pay for it and to keep paying for it.
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Netflix’s ‘Beautiful Rebel’ Proves Italians Can Make Bad Lesbian Movies Too
Like with so many biopics, in trying to tell every part of a life story, there doesn’t end up being much story at all.
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“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” Is a Radical Masterpiece
This is my Ocean’s 8 except that it’s actually a good movie. And the stakes aren’t a necklace at the Met Gala but the fate of our planet. Oh and it’s EXPLICITLY GAY.
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“Something You Said Last Night” Is a New, Quietly Subversive Trans Cinema
Something You Said Last Night not only insists we should ask for more from our trans cinema — it insists we should ask for more from our trans lives.