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[20 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 52 views]

Review: Movie About Two Moms is Better Than All Right

A great deal of fuss has already been made of Lisa Cholodenko’s lesbian family dramedy The Kids are All Right.  Setting precedent as arguably the most pedigreed American film to …

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[14 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 30 views]

Review: Stonewall Doc Reflects (Poorly) on the Birth of a Movement

In the early hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, an assortment of dandies, dykes, drag queens and other queers reached their breaking point, and something finally snapped.  …

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[2 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 145 views]

Sex and the City 2: Our Review

Stealing a page from such revered epic masterpieces like The Godfather and The Deer Hunter, Sex and the City 2 kicks off with a wedding.  Is it too deplorable of …

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[31 May 2010 | No Comment | 73 views]

Out Twin Cities Film Festival Opens Doors at Heights Theater

Film Festivals, regardless of the thematic nature of their movies or their background, remain a universally cherished event for the cinephile.  They provide a gathering place for film lovers whose …

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[26 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 14 views]

Movie Review: Prodigal Sons

Defining our identity is a lot trickier than we sometimes care to admit.  After going through so much to determine who we are – through coming out, …

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[22 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 26 views]

Transgender Director Brings Craft to the Twin Cities

Quickly, off the top of your head, name your favorite feature-length movie helmed by a transgender-identified director.
If you are having trouble coming up with an answer, I doubt anybody will …

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[12 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 98 views]

The Movies of 2009: A Year in Queer

We may live in a post-Brokeback America, but the truth is that Hollywood still does not really like us queers very much. Still, finding queerdom in the cinema this year was not a completely lost cause – you just needed to look for it.

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 34 views]

Review: Trans Flick Transcends Expectations

While watching Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose, I was reminded of a fabulous story that aired on NPR last year about two boys from different families who each revealed …

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[20 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 3 views]

Contrary to what had been initially reported, the University of Minnesota’s International Film Festival plans to screen the Belgian film Ma Vie en Rose, in honor of Transgender Day of …

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 28 views]

Review: In “The Bubble,” Romance Falls Flat Under the Burden of Politics

In the cinema, the love story best and most often told is that of forbidden love, in which forces outside the control of our protagonists thwart the possibility of any …