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Check out our Tom’s rundown of the best feel-good movies you might not have watched. When I wrote our list of the Best Films to Watch In Quarantine, I offered it as a list of suggestions to help tackle the boredom of being cooped up inside. As I write this in mid-May, I feel it’s […]… Continue reading Top 7 Alternative Feel-good Films — Upside Down Shark

Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about how easy life would be if taglines actually reflected what the experience of watching a film would turn out to be? Ever wondered what you could have done in those two hours you spent watching the latest thing a press blurb dubbed “amazing” when it […]… Continue reading ‘Bad Education’ Looks Stylish, But a Clumsy Understanding Of Its Main Character Does More Harm Than Good — Screen Queens

When it comes to bingeing a series, the main character really has to be worth following — even more so when it specifically comes to crime TV, which is not to be confused with courtroom dramas and other female-driven spy or espionage thrillers. On these types of series, it all hinges on the harden yet […]… Continue reading How to Watch Your Favorite Female-Led Crime Series on Every Platform — 360APROKO

Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures launched him as a mainstream director and earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Based on the infamous Parker-Hulme murder case that rocked New Zealand in the 1950s, Heavenly Creatures dives into the obsessive relationship between two teenage girls that ultimately led to committing an unspeakable crime. via Heavenly Creatures:… Continue reading Heavenly Creatures: A Deadly Friendship — True Crime Roundup

LGBTQ-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala officially launched worldwide Friday in all territories except for China and North Korea. The streamer is backed by Taipei-based Portico Media, one of the co-founders of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Its launch comes a week before the one-year anniversary of the day Taiwan became the first in Asia to […]… Continue reading Taiwan’s LGBTQ Streamer GagaOOLala Launches Worldwide — Variety

In 2000, Miss Congeniality slipped under the radar. Falling just short of 5th highest grossing film of its opening weekend, it received a mere 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a general consensus marked the film as altogether unexceptional. via The Feminism of Gracie Lou Freebush: ‘Miss Congeniality’ 20 years on — Flip Screen

Recently, an online horror show host has drawn some attention that has divided the horror community. It started, as these things so often do, with a woman expressing an opinion on the internet. Specifically, she said the horror host was racist and homophobic and shared a segment from an article to illustrate said homophobia. The […]… Continue reading About Satire — Whirling Nerdish

Lynn Shelton, an indie filmmaker who helped popularize the mumblecore genre with works such as “Humpday” and “Your Sister’s Sister,” died Friday of a blood disorder. She was 54. Shelton was best known for her naturalistic, understated approach to comedy and drama in low-budget films that were hits with the Sundance crowd, but she reached… via… Continue reading Lynn Shelton, Director of ‘Humpday’ and ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ Dies at 54 – Variety — News

Well, its been a while. There has been an obvious lack of new cinema releases and the movies I have been watching at home have been old classics; my equivalent to comfort food and a warm blanket in dark times. And I’m not as compelled to write about older releases as I am for new […]… Continue reading Portrait of a Lady on Fire — A Blogger Needs A Focus

Please give generously to QueerCare, African Rainbow Family, Say It Loud Club, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, The Outside Project, and Galop. When I had been in London for the first time, for less than two hours, I encountered a British man on the Piccadilly line coming from Heathrow with my mother. We were […]… Continue reading Because They Liked the Novelty of a Double Decker Bus — Christine Hannigan