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Pray Away: A Documentary For Gays Who Haven’t Yet Been Personally Victimized by Ryan Murphy
Pray Away is, at best, picking at a scab — and, at worst, poking a dirty finger into a gaping wound.
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Gunpowder Milkshake Wants Credit for Including Kickass Women, It Forgot You Have to Write Them First
If women bone cracking the skulls of men to a Janis Joplin soundtrack with pints upon pints of gory jello blood to spare is your idea of summer weekend fun, there are worse ways to spend your two hours.
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“Hysterical” Focuses Almost Exclusively on Cis White Women in Comedy, and Misses the Mark
Hysterical operates under the assumption that the experiences of women in comedy are universal. But in a documentary that overwhelmingly features white cis women, there’s little room left to explore what comedy is like for women who hold multiple marginalized identities.
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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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Slow Takes: “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” and the Futility of Time Travel
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s triptych of cinematic short stories is about love and fate and coincidence. It’s also about the past.
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“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close
Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.
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Queer Slasher “Fear Street: 1994” Delivers Trashy Fun, Gay Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
This movie isn’t reinventing the slasher, but it does expand the definition of who gets to be a final girl. It lets queerness sit inside of horror without being the source of said horror.
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“Bloodsisters”: A Timeless Exploration of Leatherdyke Culture
Michelle Handelman’s Bloodsisters, a documentary about a group of San Francisco leatherdykes, is celebrating its 25th anniversary at NewFest. More than just whips and chains, the film spotlights a culture that focuses on political activism and sexual imagination that has rendered it timeless.
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I Wish “Wonder Woman 1984” Had Been About Wonder Woman
Steve Trevor is the main and unconquerable problem with Patty Jenkins’ follow-up to 2017’s nearly perfect Wonder Woman origin story, but it’s not the film’s only issue. Wonder Woman 1984 is a complete mess.
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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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“Heavenly Creatures” Is a Queer Adolescent Nightmare
The girls are so scared of the realities they’ve been given that their fantasy — murder and all — feels like the only choice. They don’t know yet that there’s a whole world of creative queer people out there.
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“Antebellum” Forgot That Black Women Can’t Save the World From Fascism, We Only Must Save Ourselves
Seeing as the modern police force is an evolution of slave catchers, for a film trying to make a point about how the horrors of the past still exist in the present — it comes across as both ahistorical and like a serious misstep.
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Fatimah Asghar’s Got Game: Watch Her New Short on Anxiety at a Queer Sex Party
“You can’t have a rulebook or a playbook for how to connect. When you’re queer, it’s about negotiating your own way, when the blueprint doesn’t work for you.” Fatimah Asghar discusses queerness, intimacy and her new short film Got Game, that you can watch exclusively on Autostraddle.
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Hulu’s “Bad Hair” Skewers Racist Beauty Standards in a Film That’s Half Horror, Half Satire
Dani and Shelli got together to chat about Justin Simien’s new satirical horror movie, their own relationships with their hair over the years, and being over the compulsion to make space for white audiences in Black films.
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Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It” Lives Up to the Hype by Fulfilling and Subverting the Expectations Set by “Saving Face”
Contemporary YA novels don’t necessarily have happy endings so much as hopeful ones, and The Half of It follows this blueprint, delicately treading the fine line between saccharine and heartfelt with skill — and a few good jokes.
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“Kajillionaire” Review: Evan Rachel Wood Deals in Queer Romance, Trauma, and Petty Theft
Miranda July’s new feature, starring a magnificently weird Evan Rachel Wood, is a careful, long-game-playing meditation on how we can learn to parent ourselves when our own families refuse to do the job.
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Thirsty Classics: “Rebecca” Is Hot Even in Death
It’s rarely suggested that Rebecca was in love with Danvers too. But she was. That’s what I’m suggesting.
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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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“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. -
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.