Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.
A Sarah Michelle Gellar cameo, references to all the 90s teen classics, and throwback needledrops make for a nostalgic experience, but “Do Revenge” doesn’t quite pull off iconic status itself.
As a Black person, it is literally a gamble to trust white people, even for a second.
Sometimes letting a person be hot and funny and wear great outfits is all the politics you need.
Jurassic World: Dominion features a bisexual Black character played by DeWanda Wise, but her queerness barely breaks out of subtextual territory.
To paraphrase a quote from Sarah Polley’s film, what’s the difference between forgiveness and permission?
This is unfortunately not a movie about two babes banging and eating their way through Italy — but there is a dash of sapphic salt between Allison Brie and Aubrey Plaza!
We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!
At a hurricane party gone wrong, increasingly fraught group dynamics have deadly consequences — for people who largely aren’t very used to experiencing consequences at all.
![A still from They/Them in which Veronica [Monique Kim], a bisexual Asian woman with dyed red and black hair buzzed short on one side and Kim [Anna Lore] a white lesbian with long blonde hair, sit on a dock on a lake at a gay conversion camp. They have looks of deep concern and worry on their faces.](https://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Untitled-design-2022-08-05T113837.727.png?fit=640%2C320)
For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.
Since the rise of video, “just go out and make something” has been a rallying cry to young filmmakers. I would add not to lose yourself along the way — in content or form.
“A lot of the history of horror is that, you know, those queer coded people who don’t fit in are baddies.”
We’ve got the much-anticipated and very gay “League of Their Own” TV rebirth, a horror movie set at a gay conversion camp, the return of Never Have I Ever, the debut of the supernatural “Sandman” series and so much more!
I’m looking forward to a media future where trans girls in love aren’t rare. Anything’s Possible isn’t perfect, but it’s a great start.
Worrying if black people are gonna die by racism, capitalism, white supremacy and all the other shit we have to deal with in real life? Nope. We get to deal with the fear of regular science fiction — and it is glorious.
Juliet Bashore and Tigr’s approach to this film was revolutionary, but now it would fit right in as The Real Gay Housewives of 1970s San Francisco.
I want to love all girl movies, all nerd movies, all gay movies — but yodeling Yoshi, this thing is nearly unwatchable.
After being queer coded for years, everyone expected that Valkyrie would finally have a major gay storyline. And yet! How did Marvel still get it so wrong?
We’ve got Season 3 of Harley Quinn, the live-action adaptation of the Paper Girls comic book, the latest Pretty Little Liars experiment, Issa Rae’s Rap Sh*t, Billy Porter’s trans rom-com and also some other items of note!
Alisha’s queerness isn’t just some sidelined reference. The whole plot of Lightyear revolves around Buzz comparing his life to that of his queer, Black best friend and realizing that family and community is what he truly desires.