Friends it is finally time for Yellowjackets Season Two! Also a queer British comedy horror show set on a cruise ship, the Nan Goldin documentary, 1930s lesbian trysts in “Perry Mason,” a Mae Martin stand-up special and more!
Prime Video’s rom-com isn’t exactly My Best Friend’s Wedding — but there are plenty of familiar beats in Alison Brie and Kiersey Clemons’ new film.
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!
I want to crawl inside sweet stories and build a blanket fort there. Lucky for me, writer and director Julianna Notten has met me right where I am.
As much as I’d love for Tig Notaro to be in all romantic comedies, I don’t want “butch best friend” to become the latest watered down LGBT character trope.
These two lovers bond over their shared mommy issues — and their shared interest in each other’s bodies.
Knock is equally about this one, queer family as it is about our relationships to everyone else, the connections we have through the fact of biology and culture, the fact of our shared humanity.
We’ve got some very bisexual reality television, the return of Harlem, Bel-Air and Star Trek: Picard; a Harley Quinn Valentine’s Day special and so much more!
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
Film festivals are one of the primary places that buzz begins. It’s why it’s so important that the first responses to films out of festivals aren’t solely those of cis straight white men working for major publications.
This movie feels too scared to say what it really wants to say.
Every story can be told, if it’s told right.
It’ll make you believe that love can be just a stroll away.
This film also asks why we make our children pay for things they knew nothing about.
I have seen several trans coming-of-age films — few with this amount of specificity, nuance, and imagination.
A thigh touch and a smile does not make a queer film!
Over the past few years, Autostraddle has had a presence at some of the biggest film festivals in the world. We’ve gone to TIFF, Tribeca, The Black Femme Supremecy Film Festival, and of course Sundance. This year we’re returning to Sundance — with not one, but two writers!
The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.
What we’ve got to remember is that girls from about age ten to about eighteen are simply the most terrifying beings to walk the planet.
This is a film filled with struggle that never feels maudlin, hope that never feels forced.