Results for: dead to me
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Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
Horror movies are for the depressed and anxious gays.
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.
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Bury Your Dogs: 37 Dog Characters Who Died In TV and Film, and How
From Old Yeller to Biscuit, paying tribute to the dogs that were ripped out of our arms by the lords of the teevee and cinema.
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Stunt Queens: The History and Cultural Significance of the “Queerleader” in Film and Television
In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.
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Oscars 2023: Two Queers Discuss the Pretty Gay 95th Academy Awards
“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”
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Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
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Oscars 2021: Two Queers Discuss The Very Pandemic 93rd Academy Awards
Drew and Riese discuss this years slate of Oscar films, except FYI Drew did NOT watch “Mank,” and Riese did watch “Mank,” and it wasn’t fun, so!
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You Need Help: Can I Kill Queer Characters As A Queer Writer?
If queer creators are so worried about backlash from the community that we begin to self-censor, then the only interesting queer work will be made by straight people.
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Sundance 2021: Looking Back on New Queer Cinema with Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, and More
This afternoon at Sundance, I took a break from binging movies to watch a panel straight out of my queer film nerd dreams.
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TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!
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Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards
Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??” -
Observations on Heaven from Dante’s Paradiso That Also Apply to These Stills of Linda Hamilton
In a literary and historicist sense, Dante’s Divine Comedy was a mulit-volume narrative poem that advanced some notable theological suppositions about the afterlife; in another, more honest sense, though, it’s about what a fucking unreal silver fox Linda Hamilton is.
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Oscars 2020: Two Lesbians Discuss the Very White, Very Straight, Very Male 92nd Academy Awards
“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”
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Glamorous Degradation: On Sex Workers and Authenticity in Cinema
When I watch these movies, I find myself writing fan fictions in my head: What details would I change, to make this piece of art truly for me, and for the community that I love? Maybe it’s simply that the sex workers on film would just be a lot more… regular.
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30 Days of Carol: Day One — Ranking My Best Carol Posts
A full month of Carol starting today.
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30 Days of Carol: Day 27 – The Plot of Every Carol Character’s Movie Based on Their Poster
“A psycho-sexual tragedy about an agoraphobic ghost’s dream to confront her sexless marriage.”
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30 Days of Carol: Day 28 – The Original Carol
I didn’t know it when I was younger, but my devotion to Michelle Pfeiffer in One Fine Day would lay the groundwork for my love of The 2015 Oscar Nominated Film Carol.
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30 Days of Carol: Day 13 – Looks Directed at the Men of Carol, Ranked By Contempt
Mostly this movie is women looking at men like they wished they were dead.
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11 Surprise LGBTQ Moments From the 2018 Oscars
It was a pretty exciting night for queer and trans folks at the 90th Academy Awards!