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Hello and welcome to a special Halloween installment of Sapphic Cinema. Today we’ll be discussing The Carmilla Movie, which is newly available on demand! As you may know, I generally only use this column to review queer films that have been released for at least five years, but since Carmilla itself has broken nearly every…
The most generous explanation I have for this episode is that the writers knew that it would be drowned out by Stranger Things buzz and they didn’t want to waste their best material on it. The less generous explanation is that Roberto Aguire-Sacasa is a man of deep passions and widely varied interests, and he…
Friends, last night I sat down to watch Gerald’s Game, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1992 novel of the same name. You may have noticed the title appearing on your Netflix home screen next to The Documentary About Hasidic People (which is worth watching on the strength of its subject matter, though not its cinematic…
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: It has come to the attention of this committee (the Queer Entertainment and Enlightenment Fellowship) that you have not yet read the classic lesbian vampire novel The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. We must request that you take immediate action to rectify this situation, and then discuss it with us…
First of all: JINGLE JANGLE. I’m going to circle back to that name later on, but it felt dishonest to open with anything else. Before we can get to it, let’s get brought up to speed (speed, in case you didn’t know, is one of the top eight ingredients in Jingle Jangle, along with Cialis…
Teen girls are terrifying to the patriarchy. Young women, full of potential, just hitting puberty and taking on all the cultural baggage that comes along with that, “realizing their power” and “losing their innocence” and all of that nonsense, they might as well be bloodthirsty beasts for how inherently threatening they are to the status…
The first time I read The Lord of the Rings, I was about fourteen. The movie had just come out, and after watching it seven times in a row, I realized I should probably tackle the book at some point. To my horror, I discovered the book took what felt like absolute ages to get…
Hello dear readers and welcome to season two of Riverdale, a show that is either a soapy teen drama, an intricate homage to gothic literature and film noir, or the world’s longest Cover Girl commercial. Whatever it is, Riverdale is a gloriously escapist thrill, at a time when we badly need it. Of course, the…
1.“Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” -Jet, 2003 No. As you have established elsewhere in the lyrics, I came with another man, and you yourself admit that you are unable to make much in the way of conversation before you “let me get away.” So not only is the answer a firm no, the question…