Results for: Feel good
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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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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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“Knife + Heart” and the Thin Line Between Desire and Destruction
If they couldn’t appreciate porn as art, I couldn’t trust they’d see a slasher set in the world of its production as anything but a cheap thrill.
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SXSW 2023: “Bloody Hell” Is A Dope Teen Traumedy When It’s Not Making Nonbinary Folks Disposable
I know you’re going through it but could you not use me along the way?
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Kiersey Clemons Is a Bisexual Bride in “Somebody I Used to Know”
Prime Video’s rom-com isn’t exactly My Best Friend’s Wedding — but there are plenty of familiar beats in Alison Brie and Kiersey Clemons’ new film.
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10 Cute Couple Things I Imagined Javicia Leslie and Jojo Gibbs Doing in “Something From Tiffany’s”
Sapphic wives in a new Christmas movie? Yes! Now make them the main characters!
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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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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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“Chutney Popcorn” Is the South Asian Dyke Rom-Com I Always Wished “Bend It Like Beckham” Had Been
I wish I could go back and show this film to my baby gay self.
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Yes, “Loving Annabelle” Is Problematic — But it Was a Vital Film in My Own Queer Journey
There’s a reason forbidden romances like this spoke to me as a closeted person!
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“Kajillionaire” Review: Evan Rachel Wood Deals in Queer Romance, Trauma, and Petty Theft
Miranda July’s new feature, starring a magnificently weird Evan Rachel Wood, is a careful, long-game-playing meditation on how we can learn to parent ourselves when our own families refuse to do the job.
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Outfest 2019: “Good Kisser” Is a Threesome Farce That’s Afraid to Be Fun
While the larger conflicts may fall flat, the dramatic minutia when the threesome is going well is really enjoyable to watch.
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Outfest 2019: “Bit” Is a Trans Teen Vampire Romp About Lesbian Separatism
Anyone who watches Supergirl knows just how talented Nicole Maines is and she carries this movie with ease. She’s so casually present on screen and she absolutely kills a one-liner.
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“A Simple Favor” Really Is a Whole Movie About Anna Kendrick Wanting Blake Lively to Ruin Her Life (Same)
This summer’s top Mommi murder mystery!
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“Hearts Beat Loud” is the Quirky, Queer Rom-Com We All Deserve
When was the last time a motion picture centered itself on the premise that a teenage, mixed race, black lesbian is worthy of support and love from everyone surrounding her? It’s simple and tender and because of those things it’s groundbreaking.
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I Watched Lesbian Classic “Better Than Chocolate” for the First Time and Now I’m a Broken Person
One lesbian movie to rule them all.
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“Appropriate Behavior” Is Fresh, Authentic, Features a Bisexual Persian Character
Breakout writer/director/actor triple threat, Desiree Akhavan, brings us a three dimensional bisexual Persian lead character and also Robin is at a kink cafe and we all wish we were there, too.
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Movie Review: “Life Partners” is About a Lesbian, Not a Man
I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but this movie isn’t about a man at all AND it’s pretty good.
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Movie Review: Biopic “Reaching For The Moon” Lets Us See Elizabeth Bishop in Love
“Reaching For The Moon” is a biopic about the turbulent relationship between American lesbian poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Yep, it’s just as good as it sounds.
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Chely Wright’s Documentary “Wish Me Away” Will Give You So Many Feelings
Country star Chely Wright told the truth. And it was breathtaking.