“Most queer art is trauma porn, but not enough talks about how the traumatic relationships we have can actually inform our identity and bring us to that level of who we are.”
In the last year a slew of movies have begun to presuppose, “What if queer women were out of their goddamn minds?” And that’s exactly what the musical genre needs.
“I’m mesmerized by how we need stories like we need air. When humans have time off, when they don’t have to feed themselves or their children, and they have a moment, they go to stories.”
“The audience perception of these actors can be just as important as their actual personal lives.”
Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.
To celebrate the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look at why classic Godzilla movies have such a big queer fanbase.
In Love Lies Bleeding, the two main female characters exist outside of the dominant cultural ideas of what makes a woman and what makes a man, not just in their bodies and in their actions, but also in their queerness.
This eclectic selection of five films makes perfect sense for anyone who has seen Love Lies Bleeding.
Love Lies Bleeding, for all its many attributes, fails to tell us the birth charts of either main character. But maybe we can figure it out!
Knowing that Lister-Jones will divorce her husband and come out as queer, completely recontextualizes what’s on-screen.
Being from Florida, I know how easy it is for the history of queer and trans people to be lost to time, and I think it’s an important part of our fight for liberation to buck against that where and when we can.
“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”
Peaches Christ wants to make sure artists young and old, dead and living, are properly celebrated. That’s true whether she’s mentoring future Drag Race winners or writing a show with her idol turned friend, Mink Stole.
We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.
Maybe none of us can really remember movies from the 2000s. Maybe they were all fever dreams.
Kristen Stewart’s nervous tics are not just her signature. They’re also the element that grounds each of her characters in reality.
Lily Gladstone’s Oscar loss tells a story about where the industry is at in its judgments of art and its desire for inclusion. But it doesn’t have to be the only story told.
May December is a thesis statement of sorts for Haynes’ entire filmography.
It’s time for our fifth annual Oscars chat and this is the best batch of films we’ve ever discussed! Join us as we journey through all the Best Picture nominees in anticipation of the 2024 Oscars ceremony.
Despite what many reviews — and even its own PR campaign — might say, American Fiction is not very interested in white people at all.