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.
Sundance 2021: “Knocking” Finds Horror in Gay Grief and Isolation
One of the pleasures — pains? — of consuming art right now is that everything seems to be filtered through our current lens. And it makes this thriller all the more effective and difficult.
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?
Dee Rees’ “Pariah” Will Still Break You Open and Let the Light Shine Through
Alike is a chameleon, disappearing in the light of her surroundings — purple in the club, green on the bus, pink at home — only ever showing you her profile when she’s forced to be less than her authentic self.
“Cracks” Is a Boarding School Monster Movie
It’s a piercing portrayal of abuse. It’s a monster movie, only instead of a creature in the night, its monster is a human woman.
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.
Viola Davis Towers in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Giving Life to a Black Queer Legend
In Viola Davis’ hands, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” becomes a complex portrait of a queer Black woman hurricane whose footprints loom large over the last 100 years.
Watching “Personal Best” Was the Main Way to Become a Lesbian in the ’80s and ’90s
Bend It Like Beckham could never.
“To L and Back” Podcast Holiday Special: Two Jews Review a Lesbian Christmas Movie
Riese: I would text Riley and be like “you up?”
Carly: Are you still at the gay bar…? Because?
Riese: I would come back incensed with rage and ready to make a mistake.
Carly: Ready to ruin my relationship.
Riese: Yes. I would be full of the spirit of ruin and ready to share it.
Carly: Which is not Christmas spirit, but it is kind of related.
Netflix’s “The Prom” Review: Broadway’s Favorite Teen Lesbians Warmed Our Unruly Hearts
Join Valerie, Drew, and Carmen as they geek out about Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom.
“Mommy Is Coming”: Cheryl Dunye’s Self-Reflexive Sex Comedy Dissects and Embraces the Erotic
Sex is weird, and this movie leans into that without pretending to have all the answers.
“Saving Face” Made My Lesbian Dance Floor Fantasies Come True
“I don’t know what’s gayer: the outfit itself or the fact that Vivian remembers it in such specific detail 19 years later.”
“Happiest Season” Roundtable: Yikes, Harper! Wooowwww, Aubrey Plaza!
“In conclusion, Aubrey Plaza is a precious gem and I would die for her.”
Oh That’s Right, “Gia” Is a VERY F*CKING SAD Movie
Things I didn’t know about Gia but learned quickly: this movie is very fucking sad, Mila Kunis plays Young Gia, Adina Porter makes a brief appearance, ELIZABETH MITCHELL plays Gia’s love interest, and Gia’s female love interest was not a brief drug-fueled lesbian fling!
“A New York Christmas Wedding” Asks You to Believe in the Power of Love at Christmas
I love Christmas. I love having a guardian gayngel. And even when the movie is not great, I love a queer Afro-Latina in New York getting her very own Gay Christmas Love Story.
“Happiest Season” Review: Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis Are at Their Best in an Instant Holigay Classic
Clea DuVall manages a real Christmas miracle in Happiest Season by capturing the distinctly queer and quietly heart-wrenching experience of not being able to share your real self with the people you love most, when all you want to do is shout from the tallest chimney in town that you’ve found your person, that you’re in love.
I Watched “The Princess Switch” And It Turns Out It’s Not About Being a Princess Switch
Much to my chagrin, this did not turn out to be a movie about Vanessa Hudgens and Vanessa Hudgens taking turns topping each other.
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?”
I Watched the Wrong Lesbian Dinosaur Movie, But It Was Really Good
“Littlefoot, in true queer fashion, has a lot of mommy issues. (This, of course, is a common theme in other popular lesbian movies such as Carol and Frozen 2.)”
“Heavenly Creatures” Is a Queer Adolescent Nightmare
The girls are so scared of the realities they’ve been given that their fantasy — murder and all — feels like the only choice. They don’t know yet that there’s a whole world of creative queer people out there.