Results for: bisexual
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‘All About Eve’ and the Gay Marriage of Careerism
Audiences have long read queerness onto Eve due to her obsession with Margo and a brief moment when she’s seen walking upstairs with her “roommate.” She fits into the trope of the conniving lesbian — a vampire feasting on Margo’s life instead of her blood.
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“Everybody’s Fine” Is a Pretty Good Christmasy Movie With Three Minutes of Shane
This overlooked kinda-Christmas movie from 2009 features Drew Barrymore as the bisexual daughter of a telephone wire enthusiast who never takes his jacket off and also Kate Moennig is in it!
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From Birth, to a Crush, to Death, ‘If These Walls Could Talk 2’ Covers All Stages of Lesbian Life
Who could ever forget the first time they saw Chloë Sevigny’s butch Amy in If These Walls Could Talk 2?
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“Please, Baby, Please” Is a Gay Fantasia On National Genders
Amanda Kramer’s new film, Please, Baby, Please, is an exploration of gender entirely on its own terms, entirely on our terms. It’s a relief to be spoken to with such complexity and humor.
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“They/Them” Review: Peacock’s New Queer Slasher Is Too Timid for Its Talented Cast
For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.
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‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ Made Internalized Homophobia Fun
Maybe asking Kelly from middle school if she wanted to see But I’m a Cheerleader was an invitation not just to the movie but to what we talked about beforehand.
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Egghead & Twinkie Has Everything You Want in a Feel-Good Comedy, It Just Happens To Be About Teenagers
I really love a road trip comedy, especially one with rock solid storytelling.
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Tribeca 2022: “Three Headed Beast” Tackles the Complexities of Open Relationships
No one is a villain and no one is wrong. It’s just often the natural progression of these kinds of relationships where people don’t talk things out.
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“Ex-mas” Should Be About The Chaotic Lesbian Sister But Instead It’s About Straight People 😔
The new Prime Video / Freevee Christmas movie “Exmas” is a stirring tribute to the power of turtlenecks in Minnesota with a lesbian character who should be the star but unfortunately she isn’t because heterosexuality rules the world.
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‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
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Tribeca 2022: “Petit Mal” Is A Lesbian Throuple’s Real Life Fiction
We are watching these three artists create drama together — which definition of drama is unclear.
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There’s an Unexpected Lesbian in Hallmark’s “An Unexpected Christmas”
I love surprise lesbians, especially when they ruin Christmas for homophobes, so this little Hallmark movie was a hit for me!
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Hulu’s “The Drop” Review: Lesbian Destination Wedding Goes Wonderfully Wrong
The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.
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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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Scream VI Review: Why Do Y’all Keep Picking Up The Phone?!
Scream VI is as queer as you were hoping it would be! Jump scares and gay smooching, let’s go!
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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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Kate McKinnon Is Masterfully Bananapants in the Wild and Queer “Joe vs. Carole”
It’s a nesting doll of magnificent weirdness watching someone as over the top as Kate McKinnon try to add substance and subtlety to someone as over the top as Carole Baskin.
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“Anaïs in Love” Is A Queer Celebration of Chaos
The film is similar to the Old Hollywood screwball comedies. It celebrates a queer woman by embracing her chaos in a world built on structure.
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Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” Is as Angry as We Are About Anti-Abortion Assholes
I rewatched Grandma the day after Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion was published and I marveled, once again, at how prescient Lily Tomlin’s best roles are.
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“The Hours” Welcomed Me Into a Lineage of Sapphic Suffering
I watch The Hours whenever I’m sad.