Results for: love is a lie
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Two Dykes Discuss “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”
This reminds me of the gorgeous difference in our Letterboxd reviews for this film. Mine was like “romance novels for boys are good” and yours was like “the struggling economic realities of being an artist are impossible to navigate.” And look, I think we’re both right!
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“Badhaai Do” Let Me Dream Of A Gay Indian Future
Could it be the rare Bollywood film that lets gay desires and dreams take center stage?
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“Titane” Is a Boundary-Pushing, Binary-Breaking Work of Queer Body Horror
Flesh is just another binary.
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“Don’t Look Up” Exposes How Capitalism Won’t Save Us
The movie shows us what happens if we wait too long to interrogate our culture and ourselves, lose sight of truth, and fail to take action: irreversible destruction.
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On “High Art” and Being Young and Gay
Age gap relationships have always been and will likely always be a part of queer culture.
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“Two Of Us” Review: France’s Oscar Entry Is an Elder Lesbian Romantic Thriller
The visual and narrative tension, of course, ramps up the eroticism, but so does Madeline and Nina’s actual relationship, which hasn’t aged in that calm, quiet, mature way we usually think of lesbian grandmas.
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“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. -
I Saw “Too Much Sun,” The Worst Gay Movie Ever Made, and I Wish I’d Gone to Poodle Camp Instead
This 1990 film has everything: Robert Downey Jr making a salad, Eric Idle in a leopard-print robe, a vaguely European lesbian character named Susan, murder, three nuns, and so much smooth jazz!!!!
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“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.
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“The Craft: Legacy” Isn’t Just Straight — It’s Bad
Shelli and Drew had such high hopes for The Craft: Legacy, and wow were they dashed by this terrible movie.
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“The Handmaiden” Dares You to Look
This movie is simultaneously sexy and fucked-up, and its paradoxes mesmerize.
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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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“Shirley” Dominates the Viewer in This Queer Psychodrama Fictionalization of Shirley Jackson
How the fictionalized film on the horror writer Shirley Jackson bends the line of reality.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thirsty Classics: “The Children’s Hour” Is All About Shirley MacLaine’s Hair
“Shirley daydreams about their first meeting. “I remember thinking, What a pretty girl.” Later, Audrey kisses her cheek and Mary’s eyes widen. Mine do too.”
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Thirsty Classics: “Manji” Is the Most
My favorite type of queer cinema classic is the kind that constantly begs the question: Is this real? Is this a real movie? Is this a real movie made in (insert year)?