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Movie Lists

Movies with “Face” in the Title Ranked By Whether You Should Watch Them While Recovering from FFS

I know, I know, some of these movies aren’t literally about faces and other movies that don’t have face in the title are more relevant. Whatever. Ever heard of a bit?

Drew Burnett Gregory February 27, 2025 1 Comment
Performance 1970: a close up on Mick Jagger
Movie Features

Over Half a Century Before ‘Emilia Pérez’, the Story of a Gender-Fluid Gangster Was Done Right

Influential, puzzling, and still effective, Performance — now available in a new restoration from The Criterion Collection — is a reminder that the struggle between gender fluidity and traditional gender performance isn’t new.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 25, 2025
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Movie Features Quizzes

Quiz: Which 2025 Best Picture Nominee Are You?

We’re one week away from the 97th Academy Awards and it has been quite the awards season. But which of the Best Picture nominees is most like you?

Drew Burnett Gregory February 23, 2025 16 Comments
Issues Movie Lists

Two Lesbian Critics Rank Every Stephen King Film Adaptation

Autostraddle’s King Dykes are back to tell you where The Monkey ranks among 49 other Stephen King adaptations.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
February 21, 2025 8 Comments
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Movie Features

How Do You Know If Your Desires Are Wrong?

Controversial French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has an oeuvre centered around the ways women are often betrayed by their own urges.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 20, 2025 15 Comments
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Movie Reviews

French Thriller ‘Eat the Night’ Is Like ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ but About Video Games

The film is a dreamy yarn, a queer coming-of-age story illuminated by the soft, lulling LED of a computer screen.

Payton McCarty-Simas February 19, 2025
Movie Reviews

‘Lesbian Space Princess’ Is Exactly As Gay and Fun As It Sounds

Lesbian Space Princess is an animated comedy (for adults) about a shy princess with zero self-confidence who has to go on a journey across space to try to save her ex-girlfriend.

Valerie Anne February 19, 2025 1 Comment
The Gayest Moments in One of Them Days: SZA points with a pen next to Keke Palmer in the waiting room at a payday loan place
Movie Reviews

Is ‘One of Them Days’ Lowkey Queer?

I don’t know about you, but a cis man wasting my time and money certainly had me rethinking my dating dynamics.

Eva Reign February 13, 2025 2 Comments
You Me and Her movie 2025 queer - Selina Ringel and Sydney Park lean in to kiss
Movie Reviews

Looking For a Third? ‘You, Me, and Her’ Is a Movie for You

Unfortunately, like many couples on dating apps, the movie is held back by its own timidity, a desire to reinforce the conventions it’s pushing against.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 13, 2025 3 Comments
LESBIAN MOVIES FOR EVERY VALENTINE'S DAY VIBE
Movie Lists Valentine's Day

Lesbian Movies for Every Valentine’s Day Vibe

Whether you’re single, recently dumped, in love, or somewhere in between, we’ve got Valentine’s Day lesbian movie recs for you!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 11, 2025 4 Comments
Channing Tatum flies off a car with Mila Kunis on his back in Jupiter Ascending celebrating its 10th anniversary
Movie Features

We Need More Movies Like ‘Jupiter Ascending’

On its 10th anniversary, the Wachowskis’ sci-fi cult favorite Jupiter Ascending shows a way forward for Hollywood.

Lisa Laman February 6, 2025 8 Comments
In the Summers: Lío Mehiel and Sasha Calle lean against a wall as the sun sets.
Movie Reviews

‘In the Summers’ Is a Different Kind of Queer Coming-of-Age Story

In the Summers is a queer coming-of-age movie that understands childhood and adolescence are just the beginning.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 5, 2025
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Movie Features

Sundance 2025: A Gay and Trans Festival Recap

That’s a wrap on the 2025 Sundance Film Festival! Read about everything Drew Burnett Gregory saw, including the best of LGBTQ+ cinema and beyond.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 3, 2025 5 Comments
Chase Strangio waits at a subway stop in the documentary Heightened Scrutiny with Sundance Film Festival 2025 on the side.
Movie Reviews

Sundance 2025: ‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Is a Tribute to Trans Solidarity

I spent most of Heightened Scrutiny crying into the arms of my partner.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 2, 2025 2 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

February 2025: What’s New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Max, Paramount+, Prime Video and Peacock

The third season of Yellowjackets is finally here! Plus, Sepideh Moafi plays gay again, Laverne Cox headlines a new comedy and a few queer indies are making their streaming debuts.

Riese February 1, 2025 5 Comments
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Movie Reviews

Sundance 2025: ‘Rains Over Babel’ Is Queer Cinema That’s Wholesome and Transgressive

This has been a terrible week to be trans in the U.S. and I’m so grateful I could take a break and spend a couple hours in Gala del Sol’s fantastical world.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 1, 2025
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley laugh on the ground with their two dogs between them, Sundance Film Festival 2025 is on the side
Movie Reviews

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This film isn’t a straight-forward artist portrait. It’s a portrait of Gibson and their partner, fellow poet Megan Falley, as they navigate Gibson’s incurable cancer diagnosis. It’s a tender look at two queer people in love and a celebration of the desire to live.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 1, 2025
A trans woman leans against a wall in a doctor's office in the new documentary GEN_, Sundance Film Festival 2025 is written on the side
Movie Features

Sundance 2025: New Documentary ‘GEN_’ Normalizes Fertility Care and Trans Healthcare

The best compliment I can give GEN_ is that it’s kind of boring.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 31, 2025 1 Comment
New men, one cis and one trans, embrace in Mathias Broe's Sauna with Sundance Film Festival 2025 on the side
Movie Reviews

Sundance 2025: ‘Sauna’ Tells a New Trans Story the Same Old Way

It’s technically true that I cannot think of another feature film about a cis gay man grappling with his feelings about dating a trans man for the first time. So why does Mathias Broe’s Sauna feel so dated and predictable?

Drew Burnett Gregory January 31, 2025 1 Comment
Quintessa Swindell interview: Swindell on their knees in a boxing ring with their eyes closed
Movie Features

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The ‘Trinkets’ and ‘Prime Target’ actor discusses their directorial debut where they play a Muay Thai fighter facing off against their childhood best friend.

Rendy Jones January 30, 2025
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