February 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
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!
The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“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.”
Sundance 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
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.
Sundance 2023: “Shortcomings” Tries To Explore Desirability Politics But Falls Short
This movie feels too scared to say what it really wants to say.
Sundance 2023: “Joyland” and “Slow” Center Their Cis and Allosexual Characters With Surprising Success
Every story can be told, if it’s told right.
Sundance 2023: “Rye Lane” Is a Flawless Story About a Blossoming Black Love
It’ll make you believe that love can be just a stroll away.
Sundance 2023: “The Persian Version” Tells a Brilliant Queer Story Through Art & Family Secrets
This film also asks why we make our children pay for things they knew nothing about.
Sundance 2023: “L’immensità” Is a Trans Coming-of-Age Marvel From 1970s Italy
I have seen several trans coming-of-age films — few with this amount of specificity, nuance, and imagination.
Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway’s New Movie Isn’t Nearly As Queer as It Wants To Be
A thigh touch and a smile does not make a queer film!
Dykes, Camera, Action: We’re Going to Sundance!
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!
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.
“M3gan” Invites Us to Hang Out for a While, or Forever, NBD
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.
“Mars One” is Part Family Drama, Part Lesbian Romance, Entirely Wonderful
This is a film filled with struggle that never feels maudlin, hope that never feels forced.
January 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got new seasons of Vox Machina, Hunters and Ginny & Georgia; a cringe comedy indie film set at a destination lesbian wedding, an action series that strands a lesbian on an oil rig, Alan Cummings’ competition reality show with a non-binary contestant, a new “very queer” Anne Rice adaptation, HBO’s “The Last of Us” and so much more!
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” Settled for Being Superficial, Instead of Exploring Whitney and Robyn’s Depth
Instead of revealing Houston’s deeper emotionality, experiences, and relationships, the movie often feels like merely watching characters walk through a summary of her major live events.
“Call Me Miss Cleo” and the Queer Legacy of TV’s Most (In)Famous Psychic
When the PRN lawsuits were settled, Cleo essentially went into hiding. But she soon found a queer coffee shop in Florida that felt like home.
August Winter on “Women Talking” and Navigating the Industry as a Nonbinary Actor
“I think it just shows that as a culture we remain ignorant to these nuances. For me it comes down to people’s fascination with grouping things into familiarity instead of finding new ways of saying something.”
Actually, These Are Christmas Movies, Too!
Think of these movies more as a cozy fireplace with stockings hung on them, rather than a Christmas tree lit up in the center of the room.
10 Cute Couple Things I Imagined Javicia Leslie and Jojo Gibbs Doing in “Something From Tiffany’s”
Sapphic wives in a new Christmas movie? Yes! Now make them the main characters!
The 10 Best Queer Movies of 2022
Yes, this list has some underrated indies. But it also has several Oscar frontrunners — or at least Independent Spirit Award frontrunners. As queer people, we can’t look to the mainstream for validation. But it sure is fun when we get it anyway!