Double Your Dosage

In our lord 20-gay-teen, there have been a number of Oscar baity queer dramas, like The Happy Prince, Lizzie and Disobedience. But none have been quite as enjoyable or gay as this year’s crown jewel, The Favourite. In early 18th century England, screechy lady baby Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) is in the middle of war with France. In poor health and with no knowledge of politics, she depends on her close confidant and secret lover, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) to govern the country.

I was hesitant about watching a lesbian movie with two obviously straight actresses petting each other’s wigs for 120 minutes. But the local arthouse theater has discounts on Mondays, and I have a cold so Disobedience it is. Following the death of her rabbi father, New York photographer, Ronit returns to her Orthodox Jewish community in London to pay her respects. She was kicked out years ago due to a fling she had with childhood friend, Esti (Rachel McAdams). Esti is now mar

Last week a friend hooked me up with tickets to a BAFTA screening of The Happy Prince followed by a Q&A with Rupert Everett in London (attached below). So it was high society film critics, gays in turtlenecks and me and my friend raiding the complimentary snacks. The Happy Prince follows Oscar Wilde in his final years in France, Italy and England as he reflects on a life of lovers, debauchery and writing. Everett wrote, directed and stars as Wilde in this portrait of a flawed

Have you noticed Vanessa Hudgens had been avoiding sweet for a while? It seems like after a slew of “tough girl” roles (Sucker Punch, Gimme Shelter) she has found her niche: Christmas Movies of the Week. How have we not figured this out sooner? She’s totally the next Lacey Chabert! She has enough star power to headline a film but not too big to overshadow the rest of the cast. Everyone wants to be a movie star but MOW actors WORK. The Princess Switch is a bonkers movie about

Self proclaimed “grandpa of YouTube”, Shane Dawson has experienced somewhat of a career renaissance since his Streamy-award winning docu-series The Truth About TanaCon. If you haven’t watched it yet, get yourself a glass of rosé and settle in. Imagine if VidCon and Fyre Fest had a one night stand and you’ll understand the hellfire that was Tana Mongeau’s failed fan convention last June. Dawson understandably received considerable flack for his sympathetic portrayal of Mongeau

Like many biopics of female artists before the 21st century, Colette is another tale of a woman struggling to get her due while a dude takes credit for her work. It’s an exploration of identity at a time when there was little room to question gender roles and sexuality. What’s more, it’s a coming of age story about the voice of a generation as she was finding her own. In 20th century Paris, young country girl, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is asked by her husban

In what seems to be a dying genre for Hollywood ingenues, I was excited veteran actors Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were re-teaming for a rom-com together. On paper, Destination Wedding sounds like a fun movie but is actually a major drag. Imagine all the witty banter from every genre film ever, crank up the sarcasm to 100 and you have this spectacular dud. Frank (Reeves) and Lindsay (Ryder) are two grumps who meet on a flight to a destination wedding. The groom is her ex-fi

Lizzie falls in the sweet spot of my Venn diagram of interests: True crime, smashing the patriarchy, lesbian drama and Kristen Stewart. Unfortunately it failed to hit my cinematic G-spot. What was sold as a sexy gothic thriller is actually a dull family drama in which two characters literally get axed off at the end. We open on the brutal crime scene of Lizzie Borden’s (Chloë Sevigny) murdered father and stepmother in 1892 Massachusetts. As the prime suspect, Lizzie is questi

Netflix’s latest teen rom-com Sierra Burgess is a Loser is a well meaning movie about inner beauty and self acceptance that seems to miss its own point. I’d say spoilers ahead, but this is a rom-com so you already know what’s going to happen. Sierra (Shannon Purser) checks all the boxes of Unpopular Girl: She’s bookish, a band geek and fat. Despite being a a few extracurriculars away from a spot at Stanford, she struggles with living in her famous novelist father’s (Alan Ruck

I feel personally attacked by this content. It’s as if my own personal hell was captured in a 90 minute romantic drama. I was sitting in bed with my laptop on my stomach, watching as two people kept making worse and worse decisions. It’s psychological torture porn. Alia Shawkat plays Naima, a struggling actress in LA who has just been fired from her job on a film for speaking her mind (namely, taking issue with a straight man playing a gay character). She meets Sergio (Laia C