Results for: meet up
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Anna Nicole Smith’s Bisexuality Takes Center Stage As Secret Girlfriend Missy Byrum Tells Her Story
The new Anna Nicole Smith documentary “You Don’t Know Me” features Anna’s ex-girlfriend as one of its primary sources, adding her story to an abundant but rarely discussed aspect of Anna’s life — her bisexuality.
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Lifetime’s “Under the Christmas Tree” Is the Holigay Rom-Com You’ve Been Waiting For
Elise Bauman and Tattiawna Jones are charming as heck in this very sweet, very low stakes romantic comedy that takes place in a town that might as well be the North Pole.
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Maya Hawke’s Gay Chaos Makes “Do Revenge” a Twisted Romp
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.
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“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.
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TIFF 2023: Trans People Deserve Better Than “Unicorns” and “National Anthem”
We are in an abundant era of trans cinema, but you wouldn’t know it based on the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Hulu’s “Crush” Hits All the Teen Rom-Com Beats, But in a Gay Way
I feel pretty excited for a young queer person who might choose to watch this because it’s gay, and find a whole fleshed out (if slightly idyllic) world.
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HBO Max Abortion Documentary “The Janes” Reminds Us Revolution Is Possible Wherever We Are
The Janes documents the group of women in 1960s Chicago who came together to provide safe abortion access to women who needed it.
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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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“Parallel Mothers” Is a Masterpiece of Mommy Issues and Generational Trauma
Womanhood has been a front for so many facets of Pedro Almodóvar’s own life. But in his latest masterpiece, womanhood is a front for even more.
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“Birds of Paradise” Review: “Black Swan” Meets “Center Stage” feat. the Second Best Fan Fic Trope
Instead of subtle sabotage and psychological spiraling, Birds of Paradise is more like these rival lesbian ballet dancers slapping, tackling, wrestling, clawing at, and punching each other in the face. Until! They get assigned to their dorm room! AND THERE’S ONLY ONE BED!
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“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossal Sincerity
This movie is super gay. And I’m not just talking about that woozy feeling you get watching Michelle Yeoh fight.
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“Fire Island” Is a Perfect Summer Reminder of How We Find Our Families
The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.
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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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“Moonshot” Review: I Wish I Had Just Rewatched Zenon
Sunita Deshpande and Cameron Esposito play a queer couple in space, but this mostly straight rom-com is too terrestrial to stand out.
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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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“They/Them” Review: Peacock’s New Queer Slasher Is Too Timid for Its Talented Cast
For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.
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I’ve Been Thinking About The Way Tessa Thompson Looks at Ruth Negga in “Passing” A Lot
Irene gazes upon the profile of Clare’s face. Feeling heat, Clare looks up. Irene sharply inhales, blushes, and looks away. And every single time, I finally understood why white lesbians love Carol so much.
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“Plan B” Review: Natalie Morales Directs a High-Stakes Teen Sex Comedy with Humor and Horror
I can see how some viewers might be turned off by a character’s queerness being turned into a plot twist, but I can assure you it’s not intended as a punchline.
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“The Retreat” Is a New Kind of Lesbian Horror, Full of Catharsis and Dykey Swagger
Despite the real-life horrors queer women face, horror cinema has largely shown queer women as predators. The Retreat attempts to change that.
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How to Disappear Completely: A Lesbian Musician Watches Tár
In which a masc lesbian musician nerds out about Tár: what worked, what didn’t make sense, what she loved, and where the film went astray.