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Beyond the Aggressives: A Black transmasc person looks out over the water with a city skyline behind them.
Movie Reviews

“Beyond the Aggressives” Has Arrived Just On Time For Black Trans Masc Representation

Beyond the Aggressives shows us how far we have come in terms of portraying trans masc people, but we still have such a long way to go.

Devin-Norelle December 7, 2023 6 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“It’s a Wonderful Knife Review: Queer Christmas Slasher Is Fun but Falls Short of Slay

It’s a queer, slasherified version of It’s a Wonderful Life!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 4, 2023
May December: Julianne Moore looks into the camera as she applies makup. Natalie Portman stands behind her also looking into the camera taking notes.
Movie Reviews

“May December” and Performance as Sacrifice

When May December was first announced, many assumed Portman and Moore would be the titular months in a lesbian romance. While that is not the case, queerness is still important to the film.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 1, 2023 19 Comments
Periodical documentary: a group of young people hold up signs, one says RIP Tampon Tax, and the person holding it speaks at a microphone
Health Movie Reviews

“Periodical” Is a Valuable, Inclusive Documentary About Menstruation

I am fully ready to admit that, yes, indeed, we needed an informational documentary about periods and I am glad this one exists. 

Nico December 1, 2023 2 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Ex-mas” Should Be About The Chaotic Lesbian Sister But Instead It’s About Straight People 😔

The new Prime Video / Freevee Christmas movie “Exmas” is a stirring tribute to the power of turtlenecks in Minnesota with a lesbian character who should be the star but unfortunately she isn’t because heterosexuality rules the world.

Riese November 29, 2023 14 Comments
Wingwomen:
Movie Reviews

Attention Lesbians! “Wingwomen” on Netflix Is like French Charlie’s Angels but Gayer

If you want a movie where hot women fight men while celebrating chosen family then you’re going to love this.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 28, 2023 3 Comments
A close up of Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in a light blue button down shirt and a skinny brown tie
Movie Reviews

“Rustin” Creates Flat Simplicity out of Complex Black Gay History

Bayard Rustin was a part Colman Domingo was destined to play — he brings life to an, at times, lifeless script.

Natalie November 20, 2023 6 Comments
Mutt review: A close up Lio Mehiel with a bandage over their left eyebrow.
Movie Reviews

“Mutt” Is a Snapshot of Relatable Trans Chaos

The whole cast is fantastic — the history of these three relationships felt so deeply between the performers.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 17, 2023 4 Comments
In the Marvels, Captain Marvel wears a white tank top and cooks on her space ship.
Movie Reviews

I’ll Spend This Entire Weekend Thinking About That One Scene From “The Marvels”

There’s the kind of gay you can see, and the kind of gay you can touch, and then there’s the kind of gay that you just know.

Carmen Phillips November 11, 2023 13 Comments
two women lean toward each other as if about to kiss
Christmas Movie Reviews

I Got High and Watched Tello’s Latest Lesbian Christmas Movie, “A Holiday I Do”

Wow Rivkah Reyes really said I will be stealing hearts like the Grinch stole Christmas.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 11, 2023 16 Comments
Chrishell Stause and Diora Baird in You're Not Supposed To Be Here. Chrishell is kissing her neck.
Movie Reviews

Queer Stars Chrishell Stause, Diora Baird Delight in Lesbian Lifetime Thriller About Pregnancy Cult

There are two important life lessons in You’re Not Supposed To Be Here: 1. Don’t trust cops and 2. Don’t ignore your wife.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 6, 2023 4 Comments
Annette Benning and Jodie Foster in NYAD.
Movie Reviews

“NYAD” Is a Lesbian Masterpiece of Athletic Mythmaking

Sports will always be as much about mythmaking as they are athleticism.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 3, 2023 15 Comments
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall. She is bundled up in warm clothes, leaning against a car, the snowy alps in the distance behind her.
Movie Reviews

“Anatomy of a Fall” Is an Anti-Legal Drama With a Bisexual Protagonist

Most of us can agree that murder is wrong. More of us should agree the way our societies handle murder — handle all crime — is even worse.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 13, 2023 1 Comment
Monster High 2: Frankie lies in their bed, smiling
Movie Reviews

Nickelodeon’s “Monster High 2” Celebrates Trans Joy With a Nonbinary Frankenstein’s Monster

These little monsters are breaking generational curses and making their own way in the world.

Valerie Anne October 12, 2023 1 Comment
Renatta in the film "Something You Said Last Night" laughs while riding in a car with the windows down
Movie Reviews

“Something You Said Last Night” Is a New, Quietly Subversive Trans Cinema

Something You Said Last Night not only insists we should ask for more from our trans cinema — it insists we should ask for more from our trans lives.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 29, 2023 7 Comments
Laura Calamy and Suzanne Clément lie in bed together. Clément looks at Calamy as Calamy looks off.
Movie Reviews

“The Origin of Evil” Is a Twisted and Twisty Queer Thriller

This is the best kind of genre filmmaking: smart but not so obsessed with its own intelligence that it forgets to be entertaining.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 22, 2023 7 Comments
Emma conducts in the movie Days of Happiness
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2023: “Days of Happiness” Is “TÀR” For Bottoms

There are dozens of lesbian vampire movies so why can’t we have two lesbian conductor movies?

Drew Burnett Gregory September 12, 2023 5 Comments
a white woman with brown hair and a red tank sits next to a white blonde man in a blue shirt across the table at a bar from a Black woman with a green crop top. there are beers on the table in front of them.
Movie Reviews

Spoiler Alert: Dutch Threesome Film “Happy Ending” Ended Badly

The movie has great queer sex scenes but falls flat in terms of characters.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 11, 2023 2 Comments
a person with a blonde mullet leans against a tree and types on a laptop in Orlando My Political Biography
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2023: “Orlando, My Political Biography” Casts Trans People in the Virginia Woolf Classic

Preciado is bold in his assertion that Woolf herself might consider herself nonbinary if she had that language.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 8, 2023
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Movie Reviews

“Bottoms” Punched Me in the Face (and I Liked It)

Bottoms is the gory gross gay comedy of my fever dreams.

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