Results for: meet up
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Jenni Olson’s Films Are Now On Criterion — Butch Dyke Longing For the Moment
When Jenni Olson made these films, she wasn’t thinking about pandemics or quarantines or anything else this year has wrought, and yet there has never been a better time to revisit these five movies.
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Newfest 2021: “The Novice” is “Whiplash” Meets “Personal Best” and It’s Better Than Both
Lauren Hadaway has made a sports movie, a queer romance, a thriller, and, ultimately, a character study.
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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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Netflix’s “The Prom” Review: Broadway’s Favorite Teen Lesbians Warmed Our Unruly Hearts
Join Valerie, Drew, and Carmen as they geek out about Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom.
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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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“The Perfection” Review: Nothing Will Prepare You For Allison Williams and Logan Browning’s Lesbian Horror Thriller
If you like lesbians and also body horror, this is the movie for you!
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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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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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“Deadly Illusions” is a Homoerotic Girl-Meets-Nanny Thriller That Will Leave You Asking “What”
Netflix’s “Deadly Illusions” is the worst best most bananas homoerotic thriller currently begging for your attention and if you are gay and hate yourself, you should answer its siren song.
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Kate McKinnon Finally Gets to Play an Actual Lesbian in “Bombshell”
I’m not talking about dyke-y hair and gun-licking as subtext. I’m not talking about just her general way. I’m talking about Kate McKinnon’s character having sex with Margot Robbie’s character and their relationship becoming the most emotionally resonant thing in the entire movie.
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“2 in the Bush” Is a Funny, Warm, Daring Love Story
Untimely deaths, lesbian bed death, a creepy heterosexual polyamorous couple; you won’t find it here. Instead, the film takes the approach of exploring the many different loves we have in our lives.
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“Ek Ladki” Is the First Bollywood Lesbian RomCom — but the Lesbians Fall Flat
Why did this movie tank so hard that it was almost immediately out of theaters in America? Why did this not get the coverage or accolades it deserved for being the first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian relationship?
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Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” Gave Me Permission to Be Sad
The most remarkable thing about Gerwig’s film isn’t that it leaves room for queerness – it’s that it leaves room for sadness.
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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.
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Thirsty Classics: “Walk on the Wild Side” Has One Mean Lesbian (and Jane Fonda)
If only these women had allowed themselves to consummate their love for each other.
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Thirsty Classics: “Mädchen in Uniform” is the Original Thirsty Classic
Remembering that queer people have always been here, and have always been hot, is a necessity if we want our present and future to be truly queer.
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“Let It Snow” Review: I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS
A very merry Christmas to us all! Netflix’s new holiday movie has a queer romance!
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Monsters & Mommis: “Cat People” and “The Seventh Victim” Come Out of the Closet
The real horror is straight people.
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Monsters & Mommis: “The Hunger” Is All About Fuckbois
She lets Miriam bite her arm. She lets Miriam suck her blood. She enjoys it. She wants more. She wants all of it.
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Outfest 2019: “Bit” Is a Trans Teen Vampire Romp About Lesbian Separatism
Anyone who watches Supergirl knows just how talented Nicole Maines is and she carries this movie with ease. She’s so casually present on screen and she absolutely kills a one-liner.