83rd Annual Academy Awards Oscar Liveblog/Open Thread of Champions
Let us all gather around the proverbial cyber-fire to discuss this monumental evening in film AS IT HAPPENS.
It’s the Awskers! – In Which We Revamp the Oscars, Ask For Your Votes
If we ran The Oscars, there’d be a lot more documentaries, Harry Potter, Runaways and ladies…
Riese’s Team Pick: Waiting for Superman & The Lottery
These documentaries will teach you more about the American Public Education System than the American Public Education System will teach you about calculus, or something.
Hey Oscar Why Wasn’t “For Colored Girls” Enuf?
“Her man throws her kids out of the f-cking window. Shouldn’t that get a chick an OSCAR NOM???? “
“On the Road” Stills Provide Opportunity to Admire Kristen Stewart, Pre-Judge
“I thought Marylou was basically Janis from the Muppets, and I thought Dean Moriarity looked like Frank Zappa. I realize this makes no sense but I was 15 and still figuring stuff out.”
Focus Features Picks Up Black Lesbian Film “Pariah,” Loves Gay People
Focus Features picks up “Pariah” for six figures, which means there’s a really good chance you will actually be able to see it! Like — in the theater even. (!!!)
Black Lesbian Movie Earns Sundance Acclaim. Will “Pariah” Change the World?
“Pariah: The Movie” is a hit at Sundance. It’s written/directed by queer women of color and it’s about queer women of color and THIS IS F*CKING AWESOME YOU GALS
EXCLUSIVE! The Autostraddle Premiere of “Sara”
One summer. Two girls. New York City. Autostraddle is hosting the exclusive online premiere of the lesbian short film, Sara, starring out actress Jessica Clark and MTV’s Julissa Bermudez.
Get Ready for ‘Sara’ As We Interview Out Model/Actress Jessica Clark
You know Jessica Clark as that smokin’ hot lesbian model but now she is ALSO AN ACTRESS. Does she have a new short film debuting on Autostraddle later today? Perhaps. More details inside.
Riese’s Team Pick: Kickstart “Pariah”
“Pariah is a feature film about a Brooklyn teenager who juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression. “
Tinkerbell’s Team Pick: Mean Girls in the White House
It’s not our fault that the Republicans are like, in love with us
Riese’s Team Pick: Wal-Mart – The High Cost of Low Prices
This is an important movie you have to see.
Movie Review: “Black Swan” Has Mad Chicks, Made Me Feel Crazy
After a more-than-slightly-skewed trailer and over a year of Internet buzz, Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Black Swan, garnered what critics called “a certain lesbian allure” due to what may or may not be a girl-on-girl love scene between co-stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. And although this drove us to the theaters like moths to a flame (a lesbian, lesbian flame), moviegoers who actually witnessed Black Swan found that Aronofsky’s film is about much more. Exploring issues such as body image, pressure, and (yes) sexuality, Black Swan brings to light the societal pressures that create insanity and eventually causes audiences to wonder: is it insanity at all?
Movie Review: ‘Room in Rome’ Features Lesbian Sex and a Bunch of Weirdo F*cked Up Shit
Room in Rome looked really good in theory — two naked girls having sex for an entire movie — but in practice, it was totally weird. TOTALLY WEIRD.
VIDEO: “Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard In Your Box Office” Season TWO Trailer!!!
This fall, nothing and no one will be the same. It’s Julie and Brandy: In Your Box Office Season Two! A tour de force!
Eat Pray Love Won’t Teach You How to Be Alone (or, “First Try to See Something, Anything Else”)
We all come across approximately infinite poorly written, ill-researched, patriarchal and offensive things on the internet each day; most of the time, we can let them slide with a shake of the head. Sometimes, though, you can’t. And that’s when you stop being polite and start getting real about youtube, (specifically Tanya Davis’s “How To Be Alone,”) Eat Pray Love, and dbags.
Review: Inception Hotwires But Doesn’t Quite Hijack Your Brain
While Inception isn’t Christopher Nolan’s best film, it’s a taut psychological thriller that’s really only bogged down by its ambition to be all things to all summer moviegoers.
28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch
Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.
Twilight For Guys, Starring Lesbians Kissing (VIDEO)
In which we review a Twilight parody about lesbians, for guys. What do you think?
The Kids Are All Right: Lesbian Executive Realness in Fists
The final word in angry gay movie reviews is here… Julie Goldman & Brandy Howard (of “Julie and Brandy in Your Box Office”) give THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT a very serious, non-frivolous TWO FISTS!! Once we get around the pink elephant cock in the room, we’ve got a serious redefining of the female protagonist archetype going on.