Results for: no fucks to give
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Clea DuVall’s “The Intervention” Is Fun But Flawed (And Super White)
It’s wonderful to see two queer women dealing with complex and honest relationship problems that are treated with the same nuance and depth as those of the straight couples on screen, but DuVall never quite manages to step out of the shadow of The Big Chill.
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“Mother May I Sleep With Danger?” Is The Best Movie I Have Ever Seen
Misandrist. Lesbian. Vampires.
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A Trans Woman of Color Responds to the Trauma of “Tangerine”
“Why is it that trans women of color have to experience so much violence to remember that they have each other’s back?”
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“Mad Max: Fury Road” Is The Kickass Feminist Action Movie We’ve Been Waiting For
Go see Mad Max Fury Road. Go with your fists raised high and salute big, stupid, glorious, Hollywood blockbusters and go see what it looks like when we’re driving the smoking tractor-trailers into the unknown and fighting for our sisters to live free.
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HBO’s “Bessie” is The Bisexual Badass Biopic Of Our Dreams
Watch Bessie. Do it for the moments of bisexual badassery. Do it for the love of the blues. But goddammit, watch Bessie because her legacy is an important part of our history as queers in this world.
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“Appropriate Behavior” Is Fresh, Authentic, Features a Bisexual Persian Character
Breakout writer/director/actor triple threat, Desiree Akhavan, brings us a three dimensional bisexual Persian lead character and also Robin is at a kink cafe and we all wish we were there, too.
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Movie Review: “Life Partners” is About a Lesbian, Not a Man
I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but this movie isn’t about a man at all AND it’s pretty good.
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The Speakeasy Reacts to “Dear White People”
“Dear White People is not a how-to guide on ways to avoid performing acts of microaggressions, or why it’s bad to appropriate black people’s culture. Instead, it’s an examination of the importance of support systems, the difficulty of being an outsider, and how one uses identity as a tool of protection.”
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Flowers In The Attic Movie Recap: What the F*ck
I need a sanitizing hand wipe for my soul, you guys.
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“Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” Movie Recap: More Like Take A Nap, Amirite
Get ready to settle in with Christina Ricci, Clea Duvall, Quinn Fabray’s dad, and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual’s dad from Once and Again and watch some bloody crimes get committed!
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Blue Is The Warmest Color: The Male Gaze Reigns Supreme
If you’re looking for a primer in all the ways that modern media is still failing queers, this film is a good start.
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Secretly Gay Movies: A League Of Their Own
“Just look at every woman’s face here and tell me they are straight. I dare you.”
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Valencia Is The Most Masterful Dyke-Centric Artsy-Weirdo Film I’ve Ever Seen
In which I review Valencia and talk to Michelle Tea for 15 minutes. // “We were not gay. We were queer. We were dykes. We were really against the man and capitalism and always aware of everything that was unfair and unjust.”
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Movie Review: Spring Breakers (I’d Rather Retake a Midterm)
The same artsy shots, repeating scenes, and haunting dialogue that make it indie/creative/experimental just make it boring/repetitive/annoying. It doesn’t take stupidity to task, it glorifies it.
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Movie Review: ‘Jack & Diane’ is Weird, Gay and Kinda Good
Being young and in love makes you an idiot monster, and that’s what “Jack & Diane” is about.
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The Muppets Movie Was Super Cute
In which I try to write a movie review for the first time because that’s JUST HOW MUCH I LOVE THE MUPPETS.
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Homopiece Theater Presents: The Skin I Live In
“Almodovar leaves the audience without an easy place to rest.”
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SIGNIFIED Continues the Conversation on Queer Spaces
“Man, we gotta stop bitchin’ about this and start BITCHIN’ about this!”
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Homopiece Theater Presents: Dirty Girl
The debut film from gay director Abe Sylvia tackles the trials and tribulations of the school slut and her gay best friend in 1987, with mixed results. Milla Jovovich is involved.
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Stop (Barbara) Hammer Time: ‘Dyketactics,’ The First Lesbian Experimental Film
Barbara Hammer, the first lesbian filmmaker: how I have a giddy schoolgirl crush on her, one degree of separation from her and how she definitely has it out for Freud.