Results for: comics
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“Birds of Prey” Is the Chaotic Sparkly Queer Misandrist Comic Book Movie of My Dreams
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
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Netflix’s “Nimona” Is The Most Delightfully Queer Animated Movie Ever
Your loss, Disney!
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“Thor: Love and Thunder” Promised Us Gay Valkyrie, So What Happened Here?
After being queer coded for years, everyone expected that Valkyrie would finally have a major gay storyline. And yet! How did Marvel still get it so wrong?
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“Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls” Is Lesbian Lizzie McGuire on a Budget
I want to crawl inside sweet stories and build a blanket fort there. Lucky for me, writer and director Julianna Notten has met me right where I am.
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“Flaming Ears” Is a Kinky DIY Work of Sci-Fi Lesbian Dystopia
This is a true work of avant-garde queer art that features furniture humping, disembodied hands, DIY-looking miniature set pieces, and BDSM dance parties.
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Cate Blanchett Is Bewitching But Her Lesbian Symphony Movie Is Tár-ible
Look, if you want Cate Blanchett to punch you in the face and run over you with her bicycle, that’s absolutely fine — but revisiting Carol or even Ocean’s 8 is a better way to live out that fantasy.
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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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We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian
“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”
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“Mulholland Drive” and the Power That Lurks in the Shadows
David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece has a thematic core that has been largely ignored.
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The Woman King Is A Testament To The Power Of Black Women
I left The Woman King feeling like I could fight any obstacle that was in my way. Not only was I full of adrenaline, but I was filled with joy. Seeing a group of powerful Black women triumph fills me like nothing else can.
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Rich Friends Turn on Each Other in Queer Horror-Meets-Comedy-of-Errors “Bodies Bodies Bodies”
At a hurricane party gone wrong, increasingly fraught group dynamics have deadly consequences — for people who largely aren’t very used to experiencing consequences at all.
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I’ve Been Thinking About The Way Tessa Thompson Looks at Ruth Negga in “Passing” A Lot
Irene gazes upon the profile of Clare’s face. Feeling heat, Clare looks up. Irene sharply inhales, blushes, and looks away. And every single time, I finally understood why white lesbians love Carol so much.
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“Hysterical” Focuses Almost Exclusively on Cis White Women in Comedy, and Misses the Mark
Hysterical operates under the assumption that the experiences of women in comedy are universal. But in a documentary that overwhelmingly features white cis women, there’s little room left to explore what comedy is like for women who hold multiple marginalized identities.
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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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Your Questions About Tig Notaro in “Army Of The Dead,” Answered
Everything you need to know about the heartthrob helicopter hunk (!!!) played by Tig Notaro in Zack Snyder’s zombie-heist mashup movie, Army of the Dead.
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I Wish “Wonder Woman 1984” Had Been About Wonder Woman
Steve Trevor is the main and unconquerable problem with Patty Jenkins’ follow-up to 2017’s nearly perfect Wonder Woman origin story, but it’s not the film’s only issue. Wonder Woman 1984 is a complete mess.
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“Kissing Jessica Stein” Is a Classic of Queer Jewish Anxiety
I hope those of you who celebrate had a relatively joyous Rosh Hashanah. And now please join me in the High Holy Day of revisiting a Jewish queer woman classic.
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“Antebellum” Forgot That Black Women Can’t Save the World From Fascism, We Only Must Save Ourselves
Seeing as the modern police force is an evolution of slave catchers, for a film trying to make a point about how the horrors of the past still exist in the present — it comes across as both ahistorical and like a serious misstep.
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“Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Gives Us Comics History, Kink and a Queer Poly Marriage
Writer/director/longtime lesbian favorite Angela Robinson has done a really subversive thing with the most talked-about period film of the fall: She’s brought an ardent screenplay, a soaring score, and unapologetically gauzy sunlight to bear on the story of the man, his wife, and their lover who created the most iconic female superhero of all time in the hopes that she would prepare the world for matriarchal rule — and a healthy side of bondage.
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Thirsty Classics: “Walk on the Wild Side” Has One Mean Lesbian (and Jane Fonda)
If only these women had allowed themselves to consummate their love for each other.