Results for: Feel good
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After Watching J.Lo’s “This Is Me…Now” I’m No Longer Sure Who Is Me…Now
Kim Petras, Keke Palmer, Jane Fonda, and more celebs play astrological signs in this impossible to recap film project.
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Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Maryam Keshavarz’s “Circumstance”—It’s Vital
“If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?”
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Ruby Rose’s “1Up” Is a New Contender For Worst Movie Ever Made
I want to love all girl movies, all nerd movies, all gay movies — but yodeling Yoshi, this thing is nearly unwatchable.
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“Knock at the Cabin” Understands the Limits of Queer Assimilation
Knock is equally about this one, queer family as it is about our relationships to everyone else, the connections we have through the fact of biology and culture, the fact of our shared humanity.
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“Fresh” Has Cannibals, a Bisexual Character, and Humor but Could Use a Little More Meat
Have stories that feature queers and also cannibals become my brand?
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“Parallel Mothers” Is a Masterpiece of Mommy Issues and Generational Trauma
Womanhood has been a front for so many facets of Pedro Almodóvar’s own life. But in his latest masterpiece, womanhood is a front for even more.
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Pray Away: A Documentary For Gays Who Haven’t Yet Been Personally Victimized by Ryan Murphy
Pray Away is, at best, picking at a scab — and, at worst, poking a dirty finger into a gaping wound.
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“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close
Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.
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“The Matrix Resurrections” Takes the Franchise Past the Tipping Point
As the film reflects on the progress and lack thereof for trans people, it’s also a reminder of what we have to lose without inventive, intelligent big budget movies.
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“Fear Street: 1978” Plays it Too Straight for a Queer Slasher
Fear Street Part Two riffs on the original Friday The 13th movie with its summer camp setting, and we trade in the 90s nostalgia of the first Fear Street for late-70s nostalgia.
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“Everybody’s Fine” Is a Pretty Good Christmasy Movie With Three Minutes of Shane
This overlooked kinda-Christmas movie from 2009 features Drew Barrymore as the bisexual daughter of a telephone wire enthusiast who never takes his jacket off and also Kate Moennig is in it!
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There’s an Unexpected Lesbian in Hallmark’s “An Unexpected Christmas”
I love surprise lesbians, especially when they ruin Christmas for homophobes, so this little Hallmark movie was a hit for me!
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Newfest 2021: “The Novice” is “Whiplash” Meets “Personal Best” and It’s Better Than Both
Lauren Hadaway has made a sports movie, a queer romance, a thriller, and, ultimately, a character study.
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How to Disappear Completely: A Lesbian Musician Watches Tár
In which a masc lesbian musician nerds out about Tár: what worked, what didn’t make sense, what she loved, and where the film went astray.
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“Saint Frances” Is The Fascinating Story of a Straight White Woman Aiding a Beautiful Interracial Lesbian Couple
It was fascinating to watch a young white woman enter the home of two gay women of color and make a concerted effort to support them, without centering herself or her own personal experience.
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“Marry Me” Is a J-Lo Rom-Com About a Lesbian Who Does All The Work, Gets None of the Credit
“Marry Me” is a charming enough romantic comedy about a superstar who marries a common man, and the whole damn story is enabled by a lesbian who finds love for EVERYBODY but herself.
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Queer Slasher “Fear Street: 1994” Delivers Trashy Fun, Gay Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
This movie isn’t reinventing the slasher, but it does expand the definition of who gets to be a final girl. It lets queerness sit inside of horror without being the source of said horror.
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Sundance 2021: “Ma Belle, My Beauty” Brings Polyamorous Dyke Drama to the South of France
Look, when a character takes a strap-on out of her backpack in the middle of a sex scene you know you’re in good hands.
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Sundance 2021: “4 Feet High” Is a Monumental Work of Queer Disabled Media
How can you watch this series and not feel angry with how deprived we are of stories about queer people with disabilities? How can you watch this series and not be delighted with what’s finally on-screen? How can you watch this series and not be excited about all of the possibilities fulfilled and all the possibilities still to come?
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“I Care A Lot” Review: Rosamund Pike Plays a Gay Grifter in This Relentlessly Cruel Thriller
If you don’t like to watch movies about horrible people doing horrible things, you’ll probably want to skip J Blakeson’s I Care A Lot. If you, like me, are a zealous fan of the small but growing canon of lesbian heist movies, you might have fun with this cynical, clinical movie steeped in the horrors of capitalism and greed.