Results for: Feel good
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“Frida” Documentary Lets the Queer Disabled Communist Speak
The film doesn’t force her to always be Frida Kahlo, famous artist. She’s allowed to just be Frida.
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New Documentary ‘Power of the Dream’ Is a Reminder of the WNBA’s Core Values
It’s important for new and old fans of the WNBA to understand that while this league has 144 of the best women and nonbinary basketball players in the world, it’s also about more than basketball. It has to be.
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Hulu’s “The Drop” Review: Lesbian Destination Wedding Goes Wonderfully Wrong
The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.
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“Ex-mas” Should Be About The Chaotic Lesbian Sister But Instead It’s About Straight People 😔
The new Prime Video / Freevee Christmas movie “Exmas” is a stirring tribute to the power of turtlenecks in Minnesota with a lesbian character who should be the star but unfortunately she isn’t because heterosexuality rules the world.
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TIFF 2022: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Isn’t Worthy of Janelle Monáe
Sometimes letting a person be hot and funny and wear great outfits is all the politics you need.
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‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
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SXSW 2023: The Lives and Loves of Intersex People In “Who I Am Not”
An intimate look at the journey to figuring out where you belong
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“Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate” Captures a History of Life and Death
I know, statistically, even if none of my living relatives are queer that there have been queer people in my family’s past — clandestine meetings, grand love stories, one night stands, gender deviance, angst, joy.
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“Rustin” Creates Flat Simplicity out of Complex Black Gay History
Bayard Rustin was a part Colman Domingo was destined to play — he brings life to an, at times, lifeless script.
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“Your Love” Puts Queer South Asian Elders Front and Center in a Beautiful Way
Theirs is a tenderness — that all-consuming, heady obsession with just being near each other, even if the only way you can convey your love is through touching foreheads.
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TIFF 2022: “Women Talking” Is a Complicated Film for Our Complicated World
To paraphrase a quote from Sarah Polley’s film, what’s the difference between forgiveness and permission?
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TIFF 2023: Trans People Deserve Better Than “Unicorns” and “National Anthem”
We are in an abundant era of trans cinema, but you wouldn’t know it based on the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
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“Mean Girls” (2024) Made Us Feel Too Gay To Function
With the power vocals of Auli’i Cravalho and Reneé Rapp and a canonically queer Janis, Mean Girls is back and gayer than ever.
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‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ Rises Above Netflix’s Hypocrisy To Deliver Delightful Doc About Queer Comics
If this were on any other platform, I would highly recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.
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“Changing the Game” Review: With Anti-Trans Bills Rising, Listen to the Many Realities of Trans Athletes
There’s all-out bigotry, and there’s all-out triumph. At the center of the wave of anti-trans sports bills are trans kids who just want to play.
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Bella Ramsey Plays Gay Again in Horror Short “Requiem”
Bella Ramsey stars in yet another heartbreaking lesbian love story, a snapshot of what it may have been like to be queer and in love in a time of witch trials.
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Jinkies! Velma’s Actually Gay in “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!”
Scooby’s new Halloween movie is basically a lesbian rom-com.
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Sundance 2023: “Shortcomings” Tries To Explore Desirability Politics But Falls Short
This movie feels too scared to say what it really wants to say.
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Happy 4/20! I Got Extremely High and Watched Elena Undone, the Worst Lesbian Movie
“This is starting to feel pretty gay, Elena.”
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“Periodical” Is a Valuable, Inclusive Documentary About Menstruation
I am fully ready to admit that, yes, indeed, we needed an informational documentary about periods and I am glad this one exists.