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A Love Letter to Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It”

You’re as epic as the concept of love and as small as the town of Squahamish. You’re as perfect as a movie can be and as messy as a movie should be. To say it simply, I love you.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 30, 2020 15 Comments
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Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It” Lives Up to the Hype by Fulfilling and Subverting the Expectations Set by “Saving Face”

Contemporary YA novels don’t necessarily have happy endings so much as hopeful ones, and The Half of It follows this blueprint, delicately treading the fine line between saccharine and heartfelt with skill — and a few good jokes.

Malinda Lo April 29, 2020 12 Comments
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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.

Jourdain Searles March 11, 2020 4 Comments
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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.

Shayna Maci February 17, 2020 4 Comments
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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?

Carmen Phillips February 11, 2020 6 Comments
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“2 in the Bush” Is a Funny, Warm, Daring Love Story

Untimely deaths, lesbian bed death, a creepy heterosexual polyamorous couple; you won’t find it here. Instead, the film takes the approach of exploring the many different loves we have in our lives.

danijanae January 8, 2020 3 Comments
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Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” Gave Me Permission to Be Sad

The most remarkable thing about Gerwig’s film isn’t that it leaves room for queerness – it’s that it leaves room for sadness.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 7, 2020 21 Comments
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Kate McKinnon Finally Gets to Play an Actual Lesbian in “Bombshell”

I’m not talking about dyke-y hair and gun-licking as subtext. I’m not talking about just her general way. I’m talking about Kate McKinnon’s character having sex with Margot Robbie’s character and their relationship becoming the most emotionally resonant thing in the entire movie. 

Heather Hogan December 30, 2019 9 Comments
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Lena Waithe’s “Queen & Slim” Left Me Still Hungry for Black Queer Freedom

“For a work touted as blackness for Black people, Queen & Slim ultimately offers not hope or a way forward, but more images of beautiful Black corpses added to the growing canon of Black death for consumption. And I’m simply not able to keep bearing witness.”

Jehan December 4, 2019 9 Comments
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“Season of Love” is a Cheesy Queer Holiday Movie of Our Own

Season of Love has the same mistletoe mishaps of any holiday movie, but with 200% more queerness.

Valerie Anne December 2, 2019 15 Comments
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“Frozen 2” Review: Elsa Gets Mommy Issues Instead of a Girlfriend

If Disney wasn’t ready to explicitly represent a fifth of its young audience, they could’ve at least given Elsa a gal pal. I don’t need to see Elsa make out with the mysterious voice calling her to the next chapter of queer life, but lord did it have to be her mother?

Drew Burnett Gregory November 25, 2019 21 Comments
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The New “Charlie’s Angels” Delivers Fights, Fashion, and Friendship

The movie pays homage to its predecessors while still charting its own course.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 21, 2019 11 Comments
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“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Is a Staggering Work of Lesbian Gaze

Portrait of a Lady on Fire pushes against the boundaries of the screen, frantically, lovingly, desperately, erotically.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 18, 2019 45 Comments
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“Let It Snow” Review: I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS

A very merry Christmas to us all! Netflix’s new holiday movie has a queer romance!

Drew Burnett Gregory November 8, 2019 39 Comments
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Monsters & Mommis: “Good Manners” Is a Tribute to Queer Motherhood

If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 29, 2019 13 Comments
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New Queer Horror Film “Spiral” Explores the Blind Spots of White Gays

The fearsome thriller exposes the horror of unsupportive white partners.

Jourdain Searles October 28, 2019 8 Comments
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Monsters & Mommis: “Memento Mori” Asks Us to Remember the Dead

This is a ghost story. This is a horror movie. This is two decades of queer lives free to live.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 22, 2019 4 Comments
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Monsters & Mommis: “The Hunger” Is All About Fuckbois

She lets Miriam bite her arm. She lets Miriam suck her blood. She enjoys it. She wants more. She wants all of it.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 15, 2019 21 Comments
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“Ek Ladki” Is the First Bollywood Lesbian RomCom — but the Lesbians Fall Flat

Why did this movie tank so hard that it was almost immediately out of theaters in America? Why did this not get the coverage or accolades it deserved for being the first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian relationship?
 
Well, long story short, the movie is bad.

Nirali Sheth October 15, 2019 10 Comments
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Monsters & Mommis: Three Trips to Hill House

As The Haunting of Hill House has found new life across decades, the queerness has become more explicit yet less important to the overall work.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 8, 2019 11 Comments
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